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Bedroom ceiling tiki-fied |
mike-stobbe
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Joined: Aug 14, 2006
Posts: 108
From: San Diego
|  Posted: 2007-07-24 09:28 am Permalink
I did a little work on the house this weekend , and since I haven't been doing any carving lately , I figured I'd post this .
Well actually I do have a new tiki in the works , but not done enough to post yet .
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McTiki
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Joined: Aug 22, 2004
Posts: 1938
From: Sunny Florida
| Posted: 2007-07-24 09:50 am Permalink
Nice detailed work dude! Awesome.
Ok, enough chit chat......go finish deh Tiki
Mahalo
McTiki
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mike-stobbe
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Joined: Aug 14, 2006
Posts: 108
From: San Diego
| Posted: 2007-07-24 10:02 am Permalink
fine . . . here's a taste 
http://www.tikiroom.com/tikicentral/bb/viewtopic.php?topic=24983&forum=7&0
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Clarita
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Joined: Sep 26, 2006
Posts: 1234
From: BA Arg
| Posted: 2007-07-26 10:24 am Permalink
nice!
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tikifreak1
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Joined: Jun 10, 2007
Posts: 582
From: Northern Virginia
| Posted: 2007-07-26 10:30 am Permalink
That looks great! I was thinking about doing something like that. How did you install it to the ceiling???
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mike-stobbe
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Joined: Aug 14, 2006
Posts: 108
From: San Diego
| Posted: 2007-07-26 2:03 pm Permalink
It was pretty easy actually , if you have a friend to help . . . unless you use very small sections it's not really a one man job . I used 4 X 11 strips so it was a little unwieldy and would have been impossible by myself .
I just cut it to length , and then held it up and stapled it into the ceiling with an air gun . I had my wife hold up the back part with a broom so it wouldn't pull out while I was tacking it up . The first one sucked , the second one was a lot easier , and after that it was a breeze .
The bamboo splits are just drilled , countersunk and then screwed into the ceiling .
The whole job took a few hours over two different days . I ran out of bamboo and had to go back to the store for more .
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sleestak
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Joined: Aug 11, 2006
Posts: 506
From: san diego
| Posted: 2007-07-26 2:31 pm Permalink
lookin good mr kotter!
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VampiressRN
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Joined: Nov 23, 2006
Posts: 5086
From: Sin City Lincoln Hills (NorCal)
| Posted: 2007-07-26 6:31 pm Permalink
Ooooh....great, you are the second one to post pictures of a ceiling like that recently. I appreciate the instructions, as I think that would look nice on my ceiling some day. My ceiling is 16 foot, so it is going to take a couple of folks that are not acrophobic to do mine. 
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