People who make tikis
Thaibamboo creates and sells beautifully-carved bamboo and hardwood tiki vases, lights, sings and posts in Thailand. Pictured here is one of their custom lights — made from hollowed bamboo, it’s base is carved with a tiki and the top is wired for an incandescent bulb. Their half-round tiki vases look particularly nice too.
Thaibamboo’s downloadable catalog [...]
Paul Gephart makes fantastic handcrafted reproductions of ancient Hawaiian weapons out of wood, shark’s teeth, swordfish bills, and stone. These are the real deal – scary as hell looking and incredibly dangerous (you must be 21 in order to purchase), but also beautiful in their construction and finish.
Paul came to Hawaii in 1969 after fighting [...]
Sadly, the Hale Tiki bar in Augusta, Georgia closed in 2005. The place was wonderful recreation of tiki bars past, with fabrication done by the top names in the tiki construction scene (including Bamboo Ben, Al Evans, Basement Kahuna, and Swanky).
Now, the owner is selling off what’s left of the decorations to help recoup the [...]
Yesterday on the drive down to see my parents, my girlfriend spotted someone selling tikis on the side of the road on the Bradenton side of the Sunshine Skyway, south of Tampa.
We pulled over and met Timothy G. Merkel, who operates under the name of Tomahawk Creations. As it turns out, he’s a very talented [...]
, a group of German artists were bitten by the tiki bug a couple of years ago and took up tiki carving.
For those seriously interested in learning the art of tiki carving, there’s never going to be a better opportunity than this.
Wayne Coombs Mai Tiki has been supplying Floridians and tourists with tiki sculptures for over two decades.