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khan_tiki_mon
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Sep 15, 2006
Posts: 254
From: Syracuse, NY
|  Posted: 2006-10-10 5:49 pm Permalink
Can someone help me out? I'm new to a lot of this I guess. What is witco?
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Feelin' Zombified
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jul 15, 2003
Posts: 1328
From: The Exotic Shores of Lake St. Clair
| Posted: 2006-10-10 7:29 pm Permalink
A company that made chainsaw carvings.
TikiDavid has pictures...
-Z
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Phillip Roberts
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Sep 09, 2003
Posts: 1486
From: OAHU, Hawaii.
| Posted: 2006-10-10 8:24 pm Permalink
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On 2006-10-10 19:29, Feelin' Zombified wrote:
A company that made chainsaw carvings.
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[ This Message was edited by: filslash 2008-09-17 17:37 ]
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McTiki
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Aug 22, 2004
Posts: 1933
From: Sunny Florida
| Posted: 2006-10-11 03:01 am Permalink
Big Joe is not ugly! I rather like him.
WITCO = 1960's Cali based woodcraft co. big stuff wall stuff neat stuff that everyone here pretty much knows to grab if found in the wild.
Mahalo
McTiki
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The Witco Kid
Member
Joined: Jan 17, 2006
Posts: 2 | Posted: 2006-10-15 10:52 pm Permalink
Hi,
My name is Burke Hovde (aka...The Witco Kid on www.tikicentral.com). I'm the son of Ron Hovde, one of the Witco Co-Founders and Artists with Bill Westenhaver. I grew up with Witco everywhere. Witco wallhangings and furniture are all over my parents house and our family's cabin. Witco started out as Western International Trading Company and imported South Pacific home furnishing items like Capishell Lamps. They also were into carvings that eventually evolved into the rough cedar chain saw carved furniture and Tikis that most people know Witco for. The artwork and production plant was in Mt. Vernon, Washington and they eventually sold $15 million worth of Witco products throughout the world over a 10 year run in the 1970's. Through my Ebay Storefront at "intertrader2005" you can purchase a book on "Fun and Profitable Chainsaw Carving" that Ron Hovde and Bill Westenhaver published under their company Westho (i.e. Westenhaver/Hovde) after Witco shut down. If I can answer any other questions please don't hesitate to contact me at hovdeinternational@hotmail.com
Cheers!
Burke Hovde
Hovde International
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