Thread: WANTED: Woodcarvers in Perth

if you want some ideas on tiki carving have a look at this website www.tikiroom.com it's got a good tiki carving section.
maybe get in touch with a chainsaw sculptor.

Perth77
I've just looked a lot of the tikis in the link that Scrounger put up (thanks).

Even if I lived in Perth, I would be most reluctant to offer for many reasons:

a) very lengthy carving process to do several, months likely, that would totally derail my carving schedule.
This year in particular, a lot of my time is devoted to people things. Little choice.
b) long time to get my head around the design elements of that style. Need lots of time for study
and many, many pages of drawings.
c) no chainsaw experience. To do the roughouts, a power saw with a dime tip would be essential.
I don't have shop space for power carving. The finishes all look to be hand work, that's OK but tedious.
d) the money. I would expect $15/inch/25mm. At least 50% up front and a contract where we
sign off on approved designs.

These may be some of the reasons that you've found such things hard to come by.

it's a good site Robson valley, I collect tikis & have carved a couple for my kids sandpit area.


a better option for you is maybe paper mache or fiberglass - will cost heap less + weigh a lost less to.

I'm of the opinion that boarding a plane to Bali and buying them would be one of the cheaper options.

hey shedbound - On behalf of those of us trying to make a living - I hope white ants make a grand hotel in your finest wood!


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Just trying to help, I''ll keep an eye out for you in the wood stack RAVV, nothing like an authentic item. Its like buying Aboriginal artwork done by a white bloke.

Many of my wood carvings show an obvious influence from the work of Pacific Northwest Native carvers.
Not copies of the regional styles. I've "invented" some design elements ( e.g. eye shapes and feather shapes) which are outside the strictures of their styles. Anybody with half a clue would see immediately that the carving was not native.

There's a great stigma, they're thought less of, carvers who try to immitate the native works and styles.
Wouldn't surprise me at all to learn of regional differences in Polynesian carvings as well.

The brief here is for a night club, not a gallery or museum.
And wether it's paper mache, fiberglass or carving I would have thought supporting local industry would be at least considered.
Not all of us enjoy the fiscal rewards of the resources boom.

end rant.

There is a Woodcarvers Guild in Perth/WA ... closest to me is Wandi ...

https://www.woodworkersinstitute.com/page.asp?p=3657

Bob Svendsen's very nice guy to talk to ...

Cheers,
Paul