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pjc5150
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jun 01, 2009
Posts: 1615
From: Tampa, FL
|  Posted: 2013-01-07 2:10 pm Permalink
ok, let's start this new year out right, and set the bar high....
6 foot lono with a fully punched=thru beaded head dress...
let's do this...
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McTiki
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Aug 22, 2004
Posts: 1933
From: Sunny Florida
| Posted: 2013-01-07 2:27 pm Permalink
Nice challenge for a kickoff! Benzentine swirls and a whole lot of details, with a gnar bent trunk!
Charge it like you're gonna own it!
Happy new year my left coast friend.
Mahalo
McTiki
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McTiki
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Aug 22, 2004
Posts: 1933
From: Sunny Florida
| Posted: 2013-01-07 2:35 pm Permalink
Nice challenge for a kickoff! Benzentine swirls and a whole lot of details, with a gnar bent trunk!
Charge it like you're gonna own it!
Happy new year my left coast friend.
Mahalo
McTiki
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pjc5150
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jun 01, 2009
Posts: 1615
From: Tampa, FL
| Posted: 2013-01-08 3:10 pm Permalink
new toys!!!
ok, so today it got serious....
after some research and comparing prices and stuff, I decided to buy another Echo. I was going to buy a pretty nasty Stihl for 7 bones, but this had a bigger motor & cost $150 less....so this is what I got. My first gas saw (I had a few electrics first) was a sputtering little homelite ranger with a 14 inch bar that a friend of mine gave me after he threw my cast net onto a piling full of barnacles and couldn't recover it. It was a home saw and I killed it pretty quick. My second saw was the Echo CS450 that I bought used at a pawn shop for half what is cost new (I paid $200). I have been using this saw for 2 years and have essentially built a business on it's back. It is still in service, but it's lost a little "umph" after being beaten like a red-headed step kid for the last 2 years, so I'm ready for something new and nastier...
so I bought this Echo CS600P. Compared to previous saws it feels like a DESTROYER of WORLDS!!!!
don't mess with me or I'll CUT YOUR HOUSE DOWN!!! lol...
I'm a happy guy right now.
I'm also buying the makita electric carving kit from Baileys, a brand new tormek sharpener (if you haven't seen one, check 'em out on youtube - they're AWESOME), and a log master de-barker...
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hang10tiki
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jul 18, 2010
Posts: 1962
From: Las Vegas
| Posted: 2013-01-08 5:50 pm Permalink
get em big dog....
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tikirancher
Grand Member (first year) 
Joined: Mar 26, 2012
Posts: 86
From: Atlanta, GA
| Posted: 2013-01-09 06:16 am Permalink
Nothing like good tools! Congrats
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McTiki
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Aug 22, 2004
Posts: 1933
From: Sunny Florida
| Posted: 2013-01-09 06:55 am Permalink
"your gonna poke your eye out kid"
McTiki
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Creative Chimp
Grand Member (2 years) 
Joined: Jul 31, 2008
Posts: 278
From: Lost continent of west Florida-Parrish
| Posted: 2013-01-09 11:24 am Permalink
all ya need now is a leather mask made from a face....BAM!
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pjc5150
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jun 01, 2009
Posts: 1615
From: Tampa, FL
| Posted: 2013-01-09 3:04 pm Permalink
ok! let's do this...
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pjc5150
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jun 01, 2009
Posts: 1615
From: Tampa, FL
| Posted: 2013-01-11 12:01 am Permalink
ok, the big lono is comin' to life..
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pjc5150
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jun 01, 2009
Posts: 1615
From: Tampa, FL
| Posted: 2013-01-11 12:13 am Permalink
oh yeah, and I made some little 2 inch thick by 8 inch wide oak "coins" to use as candle holders for a christmas party put on by some people I know, and I used my old saw to cut them...and it was taking like 20 seconds to cut through them...
my new saw cuts the same piece in like 4 seconds. it is GNARRRR....
grrrr...blablablabla...*engine noises*....mrrruummm, mrruumm!!!! <--- I'm an idiot.
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pjc5150
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jun 01, 2009
Posts: 1615
From: Tampa, FL
| Posted: 2013-01-11 6:05 pm Permalink
a little more progress this afternoon - evening....
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pjc5150
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jun 01, 2009
Posts: 1615
From: Tampa, FL
| Posted: 2013-01-13 12:17 pm Permalink
took a break from the big gnarly lono to bust out a couple of cheap tikis.
I am trying to get to where have an inventory of 20 or 30 of these at any given moment so that I'm always stocked up for art shows & plant sales and such...so once these are finished & stained I'll be at 9...
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pjc5150
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jun 01, 2009
Posts: 1615
From: Tampa, FL
| Posted: 2013-01-13 5:23 pm Permalink
and then there were 3!
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pjc5150
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jun 01, 2009
Posts: 1615
From: Tampa, FL
| Posted: 2013-01-14 2:52 pm Permalink
ok, so these are the fastest selling tikis in my few year in the business...
posted 'em on facebook and they were gone in 5 minutes....
the stain was kinda red, so i dubbed them the "commie reds" and they were GONE!
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