Post #476247 by Bay Park Buzzy on Mon, Aug 10, 2009 7:47 PM

A couple sunsets:

I spent the last few days working on the Martini King's drum. Here it is right after I carved in the last of the details:

Then I spent two straight days just sanding it. Here it is right before sunset yesterday. I still had about two more hours of last minute sanding to do at this point

It's hard to tell from the photos, but I made the sides square. the arms and ears break out of the flat plane and keep the original arc of the log. It makes for a real neat corner/edge detail

And now, here it is stained!:



I'll oil it all up tomorrow. I'm also going to do a little hide shopping.

Here's the original sketch of the drum that I used as my working drawing:

It was designed by Squid, who provided me with that drawing. I changed the thickness of the nose because when I scaled out my working drawing, I was concerned with the width of the eye brows up where the indentation of the pedastal/bell is. With the way the grain changes, it would have made it a little weak. That's a part where the drum will be lifted and handled, so I had break off concerns there as well. To solve this problem, I made thelargest circles around the eyes and the eyebrows a little thicker. To balance it out, i also made the nose twice the width of the eyebrows. The lips and letters were also thickened a bit from the original drawing. They too were a little bit thinner than I was comfortable with. If it was a tiki I was making, I would have kept everything as close to the original as possible. Since the drum will be lifted, carried, moved, and played....many, many times, I made those changes for the durability factor.

On 2009-08-06 11:41, TheBigT wrote:
HB, Kiva! 15?! Woosh!

Oops! I checked her vet records. Kiva's now 14. Almost 100 in dog years...

On 2009-08-06 11:41, GROG wrote:

Drums are looking sharp, Buzzmeister.

Colorado says his drum is the favorite thing he now owns. I told him you liked it too, when it was yours...

On 2009-08-07 10:00, Tiki Diablo wrote:
Drums are lookin' sweet Buzz.

thanks TD! Half the battle is won. Now to get them sound good as well...

On 2009-08-06 15:52, jab tiki wrote:
Hope to see you guys soon.
-johnny b

you'll have to call in sick one of these days. zaya just cleaned the whole house. I can actually have people over without worrying they'll call social services or the health department on me.

On 2009-08-06 14:58, kustomtiki wrote:
Cool drum Buzz,see you at Oasis!

Make sure you introduce yourself to me...
Just follow the sound of drums until you find me. this is what I look like, just in case you forgot how handsome I am:

See you all there! I'll be packing up and leaving on saturday morning at 8:40. Not much time left...

Buzzy Out!