Post #811527 by ECTiki on Wed, Dec 13, 2023 7:58 AM

Well, I got busy and haven’t had time to post in a while. Part of our time away was spent on vacation and we brought back some great souvenirs.

Anyway…..After the stairway railing was complete and a serious delay in obtaining reasonably priced bamboo slats. (Thank you Mike from Frank’s Cane and Rush Supply) I back in-filled the birch walls with bamboo. A little editing of the wall hanging decoration to clean up the previous mess and I think….I’m more pleased with the stairwell.

Difficult to see but a hallmark of the stairwell is a PNG Ceremonial Board from Oceanic Arts. Also a Nautical Map of the Hawaiian Islands dated 1941. Pretty cool to have a map of Hawaii that’s over 80 years-old. The long skinny face carving has a sticker on the back that indicates it was at some point the property of Sony Pictures. I don’t know much about him though.

Because I thought it looked better I also cased the back of the bookcase speakeasy door with bamboo. After, I decided a plain bamboo door looked boring…..

So….Remembering something we saw at this year’s Tiki Oasis, I finally broke down and bought a pair of left and right Bosko’s. I hoped the Bosko’s would give the tiki bar faces of the bookcase doors some personality. My first and only Bosko.