Post #464738 by Bay Park Buzzy on Thu, Jun 25, 2009 11:37 PM

A recent sunset:

I forgot to take final pictures of the Tikiyaki drum, so this is the best one i have of it:

I'm really happy with the way it turned out. I envision a day when all the cool tiki bands have a matching album,drum, and mug.

I spent a couple hours at the end of last week carving a waist high Moai:

For my next for fun project,I want to see if I can make a small drum that works. I have a few really dense logs that are skinny. For a test run, I grabbed a 15"h x 7.5"w piece of one of them logs to see how hard and how long it would take to make a smaller sized drum. I started out the other night by working on the legs. Here it is the next morning next to the other test drum I'm working on too:

I rounded out all the designs on the other drum since my last update. I'll sand it in another few days.

Next step was roughing out the tapered part of the drum and the ledge

After that, I did the initial hollowing:

The Brady Idol blesses this drum!

Getting the part behind the legs hollowed out was a very hard task. That triangle shaped cut out part between them only compounded the problem. Super hard to fit any tools in there and most of it is against the grain

happiest moment in drum making for me is the punch through where I first see daylight. Here is a picture immediatly after that special moment:

The underside looks ugly because of that space and grain problem:

After I punched through, it was easier to reach the back of the legs and carve with the grain from the top. After using some gouges to clean eveything up a little, I do a final cleaning with some sandpaper wrapped around a tool handle to get rid of all mess:

Last thing I did was clean up the tapered part of the drum with a sander...

and level out the rim:

All the crappy part of making a drum is done on this one so now the fun part begins!

On 2009-06-17 17:17, GROG wrote:
Great looking drums Buzzmeister. You're a machine.

Hi GROG!

On 2009-06-17 19:26, RevBambooBen wrote:
what are the posters ??

check that punk junk thread over in bilge

On 2009-06-17 17:38, kirby wrote:
the tikiyaki drum turned out awesome,Great work,

thanks Kirby, This one was fun.

On 2009-06-17 19:31, 4WDtiki wrote:

Almost afraid to ask but, what's a veiner?

It's the round cutty thing with the sides.

On 2009-06-20 09:17, tikiyaki wrote:
Picked up my drum from Buzzy yesterday.

Big Mahalos Buzz....this made my year !

have fun with that thing! You lucky guy, you! Someday I'll have drum like that! Someday...

On 2009-06-20 09:29, tyger jymmy wrote:
man this one makes fora great sleepin place .

He knocked it down getting up on it the other day. Tiki down!

Scrubs ripoff idol anyone?

Coming soon!
Buzzy Out!