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AKUAE
Tiki Socialite
Joined: May 11, 2007
Posts: 129
From: Alsace - France
|  Posted: 2007-09-18 12:32 pm Permalink
Hello
this is my first topic here on TC - i hope you will enjoy my work
My first Tiki i have done last summer after a great meeting with Hot Rods and Rockabilly music in Switzerland.
It was cool to see HAIKAI "the greatest carver in good old Germany" carving live his great Tikis, drinking some good cocktails and spending a good evening with my friends - it was a revelation and some days later i bought some knifes for trying out my first Tiki
for me Tikicarving is very important to spending time with my friends - Vinz and Seb hey boys show us your Tikis  - and creating something with my own two hands, without any stress and near natural things like wood, terracotta or stone
hope you enjoy
no.1 broken in two pieces after two weeks not realy cool 
 
after this first emotional birth of my first TIKI some others are luckier than the first one
 
 
 
yes you are right, on the right side it's a knife "Opinel" out of inox steel and a chestnut wood. this knifes are specially produced for carvers like us
realy cool stuff out of the french Alpes !!!
voila, that's all for the moment
next projekt will not wait longer on
aloha
Akuae
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McTiki
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Aug 22, 2004
Posts: 1937
From: Sunny Florida
| Posted: 2007-09-18 2:28 pm Permalink
I love the character in these. Refined carves and beautiful finishes. Way better than my stuff! Mahalo!
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benella
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Sep 27, 2006
Posts: 1423
From: Meudon, France
| Posted: 2007-09-19 08:57 am Permalink
Bienvenue AKUAE,
your pieces look really good.
Can't wait to see more.
Concerning the knifes, check this: www.gaignard-millon.com 
Benjamin.
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AKUAE
Tiki Socialite
Joined: May 11, 2007
Posts: 129
From: Alsace - France
| Posted: 2007-09-20 03:57 am Permalink
Hello McTiki, thanks for your visit and your kind words
Hello Ben, thanks for the link, I have already some PFEIL Tools for carving they are great tools and it's a pleisure for carving, not cheap but very good stuff
hope to stay in touch, next Tiki is in progress and some photos will coming soon
aloha
akuae
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AKUAE
Tiki Socialite
Joined: May 11, 2007
Posts: 129
From: Alsace - France
| Posted: 2007-11-22 09:21 am Permalink
Hi guys,
big promise - this week end new pics will coming
i'm very busy at the moment
i have collected much of good logs and good idees now its time
for create
aloha
Akuae
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Benzart
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jan 09, 2004
Posts: 10306
From: Port Saint Lucie, Florida
| Posted: 2007-11-22 3:58 pm Permalink
Akuae, your first tikis were Very Nice and Exceptional for "Firsts" and I amreally expecting More excellent work from you soon. Welcome to TC, Hope you're having fun.
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AKUAE
Tiki Socialite
Joined: May 11, 2007
Posts: 129
From: Alsace - France
| Posted: 2007-11-25 12:51 pm Permalink
Hello TC's
Benzart, thanks for your kind words - i'm very happy to show my work on TC
here are some new pictures, some Tikis are finished and some are still at work.
The last weeks are very busy for me, all the tools are waiting for new work
and i hope before Christmas time some other Tiki's will following soon
hope you will enjoy.........
big work for me for the moment, a Basswoodlog 65cm high
my AKU had changed the color, Black is beautyful
here some other stuff:
Aloha,
AKUAE
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benella
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Sep 27, 2006
Posts: 1423
From: Meudon, France
| Posted: 2007-11-26 12:24 am Permalink
Salut Akuae !
Very nice work, especially with the new one, it's going to be a superb piece, please post progress pix.
Ben.
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tok-tok
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Oct 17, 2007
Posts: 148
From: somewhere in Germany
| Posted: 2007-11-26 12:44 am Permalink
Welcome to t.c..
Nice to meet another euro-carver here.
You gathered a nice bunch of tikis allready. I like them, wondering how the laughing guy will turn out.
Can you fold this opinel-knife or is this a stiff blade?
Nice toolbox also, looks a bit like the "Bonny & Clyde"- car.
tok-tok
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haikai
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Nov 09, 2005
Posts: 233
From: Regensburg / Bavaria / Germany
| Posted: 2007-11-27 02:45 am Permalink
Aloha AKUAE, it´s great to meet you here again! Wellcome on TC my friend.
The Moai is my favorite one. I think it´s nearly a perfect form. I realy like the little fellow!
Greetings, Kai
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AKUAE
Tiki Socialite
Joined: May 11, 2007
Posts: 129
From: Alsace - France
| Posted: 2007-12-16 09:30 am Permalink
Hello TC Carvers
Ben, thanks for your kind words i'm very busy with a new little Tiki
hope will finish him soon !!!
will send you latest next week a list with the chisels !!!
sorry for my late answer
TOK TOK thanks, yes the knife can be fold it's not a stiff
I hope i can buy soon more diff. wood knifes like this
it exist also in Olivewood, AHORN and some other nice woods
grat work on your topic also !!!!
Haikai, thanks for your visit in my topic - and always the inspiration of your forbidden paradise
some photos of my new stuff will following soon
this evening we are chilling in a very nice restaurant with all my friends and also Tiki Carvers - hope they will soon put some photos on TC - perhaps santa claus will ring us some chisels or great logs
aloha
AKUAE
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AKUAE
Tiki Socialite
Joined: May 11, 2007
Posts: 129
From: Alsace - France
| Posted: 2007-12-19 04:58 am Permalink
Aloha,
here some new pictures of my last Tiki
a little one, hope you enjoy
great christmas time
bye Akuae
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benella
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Sep 27, 2006
Posts: 1423
From: Meudon, France
| Posted: 2007-12-19 05:25 am Permalink
Guten Tag,
Very good, my friend.
Will you stain it ?
How tall is he?
Keep up the good work.
Benjamin.
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AKUAE
Tiki Socialite
Joined: May 11, 2007
Posts: 129
From: Alsace - France
| Posted: 2008-01-06 2:08 pm Permalink
Hello everybody
hope your all fine
here some updates with new pictures
Thanks Ben for your last reply - the little one is now ready
for taking care of my home - no more bad phantoms or spirits will come in
take a look - the burning Tiki is about 25 cm high and of good birch-wood
 
Also my bigger projekt is nearly finished
It's the first time i give arms at a Tiki - it's not perfect but i think not to bad
A about 60 cm basswood laughing one - This Tiki will be watching out for bad spirits in the backyard of very
good friends of me in good old Germany
Conny, Klaus and Julian are the best neighbours in the world.....
some other pictures will following soon
great new TIKI Year to everyone
Akuae
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Traderbob
Tiki Centralite
Joined: Sep 29, 2007
Posts: 55
From: tropical shores of bavarian breweries
| Posted: 2008-01-06 3:01 pm Permalink
Aloha Akuae,
the small new tiki looks really unique and also very good after you burned it and I bet your neigbors will appreciate the big basswood guy !
I like the opinel knife as well, does it fold in ?
Cheers
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