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foamy

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Your talented foamy, I especially like the "Bitten" piece but can't quite make out the little bugger under the drink umbrella
Thanks fellas, I've had a lot of fun with tiki—still do, but I don't have as much free time these days. I have to say, the late fifties and early sixties; the whole atomic modern/cocktail/tiki life style appeals to me in a big way. I'm a confirmed retro-grouch.

Mike, it's a little devil in a beach chair saying "...and life is good."
 

mikespens

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Thanks fellas, I've had a lot of fun with tiki—still do, but I don't have as much free time these days. I have to say, the late fifties and early sixties; the whole atomic modern/cocktail/tiki life style appeals to me in a big way. I'm a confirmed retro-grouch.

Mike, it's a little devil in a beach chair saying "...and life is good."

Perfect. I actually had a retro-grouch tee shirt from Rivendell Cycles. Wore it out.
 

foamy

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Perfect. I actually had a retro-grouch tee shirt from Rivendell Cycles. Wore it out.
Ah, Rivendell. Grant Peterson, one of the original retro-grouches. I have a Bridgestone RB-2 from his time with them. Seroiusly considered a Riv when I was shopping for a bike to do the cross-country tour. Sweet bikes. Ended-up going with a Bilenky.
 

mikespens

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Ah, Rivendell. Grant Peterson, one of the original retro-grouches. I have a Bridgestone RB-2 from his time with them. Seroiusly considered a Riv when I was shopping for a bike to do the cross-country tour. Sweet bikes. Ended-up going with a Bilenky.

Still have my Readers. I have a lugged MB-2 that's been roadified. Hope you went with lugged steel.
 

foamy

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Still have my Readers. I have a lugged MB-2 that's been roadified. Hope you went with lugged steel.
MB's are very nice—classic, IMO. Would love to have had lugged, but went instead with Columbus Spirit light weight chromo, brazed and a chromo fork. The bike did real well, but didn't like much more than 35 lbs. on it—which, it turns out, was about all I needed or wanted.
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Staying on topic here, Six of my collection that I rendered in Illustrator and Photoshop.
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And a bad photo of No. 5
 

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mikespens

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The Columbus looks up to it.

Still searching for my Suffering ba***rd but most impressed with the full size totem. WOW!
 

foamy

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The Columbus looks up to it.

Still searching for my Suffering ba***rd but most impressed with the full size totem. WOW!
Yeah, Ben does exceptional work. One of the, if not thee best (I'm biased) , tiki carvers I know of. He carved all of the original tiki's and tiki/tropical ornamentation at the Tropicana when they went tiki-themed back in the day. He's been at it for a good, long while.

A good, un-chipped Suffering ba***rd is hard to come by these days without paying an outrageous price. I got lucky when I found mine. Now, if I could just find some affordable vintage hats that please me.
 
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Great illustratin' there Foamy! Some classic mug shots in that line-up.

And I'm with Mike on the big guy. Very impressive!

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Kahuna

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The guy in the middle is my most recent tiki find. I found him for 50 cents in a pile of junk at a yard sale with his foot broken off and missing. As you can imagine authentic old tikis are hard to come by here in the wilds of Idaho so I took him home, glued a new piece of wood where the foot was, and sanded it down till it looked like a foot. He's a nice size - 11" so had to grab him.
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