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pjc5150
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Joined: Jun 01, 2009
Posts: 2379
From: Tampa, FL
|  Posted: 2013-07-22 1:38 pm Permalink
oooh... something shiny!
let's see what I can make with these...
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pjc5150
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Joined: Jun 01, 2009
Posts: 2379
From: Tampa, FL
| Posted: 2013-07-23 3:53 pm Permalink
so yeah, this piece of ebony is gorgeous...
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pjc5150
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Joined: Jun 01, 2009
Posts: 2379
From: Tampa, FL
| Posted: 2013-07-24 11:55 am Permalink
before:
after:
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GROG
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Joined: Jun 21, 2006
Posts: 7131
From: Tujunga
| Posted: 2013-07-24 1:13 pm Permalink
GROG like. Two semi-opposable thumbs up.
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pjc5150
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jun 01, 2009
Posts: 2379
From: Tampa, FL
| Posted: 2013-07-24 3:57 pm Permalink
GROG, thank you sir...
I am very proud of this guy. Whenever he was commissioned, thought of all the mailboxes I'd seen other guys do, and the mailbox itself always looked like an afterthought....that, in a way, kinda killed the "flow" of the piece... I wanted to make the mailbox so subtle, that at first glance, one would not immediately say "oh, cool mailbox"...but instead,to look at it for a second and say "hey....that's a little mailbox in that tiki's mouth.".... I wanted it to be a tiki first, and a mailbox second, and not the other way around. I think I pulled it off.... 
Anyway, no time to BASK in the GLORY of the MAILBOX.... this damned headdress ain't gonna SWIRL ITSELF... lol...
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hang10tiki
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Joined: Jul 18, 2010
Posts: 7154
From: Las Vegas
| Posted: 2013-07-25 4:21 pm Permalink
Lots O good stuff going on there bro
Jon
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pjc5150
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Joined: Jun 01, 2009
Posts: 2379
From: Tampa, FL
| Posted: 2013-07-25 5:05 pm Permalink
the little ebony tiki is coming together slowly but surely...
I'm givin' him like 20 or 30 minutes a day....
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Lake Surfer
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Joined: Oct 21, 2002
Posts: 3414
From: Milwaukee, WI
| Posted: 2013-07-25 9:16 pm Permalink
Kickass mailbox tiki, Jeff.
I like the direction you took, unique indeed.
I think the mailbox tiki is a rite of passage for any veteran tiki carver. You've gotta do at least one in your career.
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pjc5150
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Joined: Jun 01, 2009
Posts: 2379
From: Tampa, FL
| Posted: 2013-07-26 4:04 pm Permalink
thanks bro... I'm pretty stoked on it!
so yeah, I was able to recover some lost pics from an epic surf trip a few years ago...
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pjc5150
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Joined: Jun 01, 2009
Posts: 2379
From: Tampa, FL
| Posted: 2013-07-27 3:31 pm Permalink
well, we're startin' to see some daylight in between the cinnabuns...
but in retrospect, a big wet piece of cypress, fresh from the sawmill, would have been a better choice for this piece...the dried palm is not the easiest thing to put detail on with a chisel... it's crumbly as hell in there... 
but I have way too much into it at this point... I gotta just ride it out & do the best I can with what I've got..
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pjc5150
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Joined: Jun 01, 2009
Posts: 2379
From: Tampa, FL
| Posted: 2013-07-27 6:10 pm Permalink
ok, the "beaded" headdress is FINALLY starting to look like what is in my head...
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pjc5150
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Joined: Jun 01, 2009
Posts: 2379
From: Tampa, FL
| Posted: 2013-07-28 2:46 pm Permalink
inching forward...
I think I'm gonna fill the big crack with 2 part epoxy & clamp it....
Every time I smack a chisel with the mallet I'm afraid it's just gonna break in half...lol..
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tikimecula
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Joined: Apr 27, 2004
Posts: 453
From: BFE, KS
| Posted: 2013-07-30 4:08 pm Permalink
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On 2013-07-25 17:05, pjc5150 wrote:
the little ebony tiki is coming together slowly but surely...
I'm givin' him like 20 or 30 minutes a day....
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Ya might need some smaller chisels on this one?
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pjc5150
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Joined: Jun 01, 2009
Posts: 2379
From: Tampa, FL
| Posted: 2013-07-31 08:52 am Permalink
oh yeah andy, once I really get into him I'll definitely be bustin' out the little guys...
so here's what I did yesterday.... and wow, July in Florida is always brutal, but yesterday was supposedly, like the hottest day this year. I gave out after about 5 hours of the sun beating on me,.. gotta go back and put the chisels on him today....
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tikiskip
Grand Member (8 years) 
Joined: Nov 26, 2005
Posts: 4446 | Posted: 2013-07-31 1:22 pm Permalink
I hear that the Black wood is really hard.
Chicks seem to like it tho.
Looks great!
Man is that just one day?
Got a light here for you will post pics
when I have them both.
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