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Chiki Tiki Diablo Tiki Pole |
Jungle Trader
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jan 04, 2003
Posts: 3691
From: Trader's Jungle Outpost, Turlock, Ca.
|  Posted: 2003-06-12 9:55 pm Permalink
WOW!! I'm not even close to that good. Much cool Chiki!!
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(Hello all my relatives)
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Monkeyman
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Mar 04, 2003
Posts: 2300
From: Vista, CA
| Posted: 2003-06-12 11:42 pm Permalink
what kind of wood is that and where does one get a log like that.
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tikifille
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Nov 18, 2002
Posts: 123 | Posted: 2003-06-13 07:06 am Permalink
Chiki- beautiful work, as always! Is that palm that has been stained? The wood looks too smooth for palm. Great work. How tall is the guy from thw Witness Protection Agency?
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bamzeno
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Mar 24, 2002
Posts: 106
From: Los Gatos, CA
| Posted: 2003-06-13 08:13 am Permalink
That is one badass Tiki Chiki!
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Tiki Diablo
Grand Member (8 years) 
Joined: Jun 24, 2002
Posts: 1888
From: socal
| Posted: 2003-06-13 11:22 am Permalink
Thanks peeps for the props. A tiki like this sells for an everyday low price of $125 per foot. I carved it out of seasoned palmwood and stained it with some smelly minwax(early american). Then finished it off with Man o' War satin varnish. If you need a log like this, just tip you're local tree trimmer and throw in some Bohemia beers. The owner was 5' something and the tiki is 6'. The tiki is not high detail, but I focused on the basic form , lot's of curves and arcs. I wanted to keep this one.
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SugarCaddyDaddy
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jun 03, 2002
Posts: 1500
From: Huntington Beach, California
| Posted: 2003-06-13 1:59 pm Permalink
Chiki~
Is the owner a member of TC? Ask him to come on over or share some pictures of his other pieces in his collection if he has any.
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Kreaky Tiki
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Apr 19, 2003
Posts: 182
From: Goleta the good land
| Posted: 2003-06-14 10:07 pm Permalink
Chiki, nice carving, I wish I had your cell phone number the other day. I was walking by the courthouse to go to lunch, and the were removing one of the giant fan palms. It must have been at least 50 ft high and 3'wide at the base. They were just grinding chunks of it up! By the time I finished lunch that beauty was nothing but dust. I was disturbed all day, just thinking about it.
Cheers,
KT
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GECKO
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jun 01, 2002
Posts: 1049
From: South Sea Arts Honolulu
| Posted: 2003-06-17 09:25 am Permalink
VERY NICE!! Chiki, thanks for sharin the info on the finish. I like my dark browns but dats a nice color to. See you at Tiki Ti tomorrow.
JungleTrader I gave Al my number, he said you were trying to get a hold of me. Call Al up.
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