Post #471974 by Bay Park Buzzy on Sun, Jul 26, 2009 10:29 PM

Most of the sunsets this last week looked like this:

A couple looked like this:

I did the vending to the tourists thing a couple times. Here's about ten days ago:

I'm using the small, no frills set up still:

I started a tiki while I was there

I brought it home and did some more work on it...

finished it up...

and then stained it:

I spent a couple tedious days sanding out this drum:

I stained it dark just to see what a dark drum would look like:

Here it is ater a couple coats of oil:

I just put another coat on

I also cleaned out the inside of the big drum. I got a nice smooth transition down the whole thing

After the hollowing out, the only thing left is the upper part. To do that, I first needed to make a stencil. I did a rough sketch first

And then I tweaked it a bit to make the final stencil and traced it on the drum:

that's it.

On 2009-07-18 09:36, Cammo wrote:
Hey Buzzy - you need one of these:Holmes Tower Fan,

I ended up going nocturnal for a couple days instead.

On 2009-07-15 08:04, RevBambooBen wrote:
I'm really diggin that background. The Pink makes the tikis really POP!

The same magic camera that puts red in my sunsets puts pink in my wall color.

On 2009-07-15 04:07, Benzart wrote:
Love to see the progress reports, your drums are going to be internationally Famous, Watch!

Keepin my fingers crossed on that one!

Anyone from another country know that I'm making drums yet?
If so, let me know...
Buzzy Out!