Post #479358 by Bay Park Buzzy on Tue, Aug 25, 2009 11:30 AM

A couple days ago sunset...

and yesterday:

On 2009-08-24 18:06, Benzart wrote:
I was gonna chime in on how Awesome your drums Are, especially that tunable mini drum, What an Incredible engineering feat you pulled there, HappyHappyHappyB'Bay

Thanks for the B'day wellwishes Benzo! I forgot to post the final shots of that drum on this thread.

It wasn't quite tight enough as I'd like, so I did a little tying here and there and came up with this:

The best part is that you can now tune it. You just slide the bands in the direction of the arrows and as the triangle gets smaller, the tension increases, tightening the head:

You can read all about it over on the Youtube pahu making thread here in carving

On saturday, I carved this Moai guy for a job. He's 34" tall and will be a light color. I have to do anither matching one too:

I haven't done many tikis lately, so I cleaned a couple logs on Sunday to make some

While I was on the second log, I got struck by some inspiration and cut the log into two pieces to make....more drums.

I got on the first one right away, because I had an idea and I wanted to see if I could execute it. I started with a little tiki drafting:

It was a long run of time, but it's now over. I started carving all night in the living room again.

Kiva's says:"Damn, I liked having a floor!"

More lines and a little chopping:

The next day I had this much done:

Next was hollowing it out using my expanding star method

It goes fast if you can take out big chunks:

Took less than an hour to get it to here:

Then last night, I carved the same damn tiki head 8 times

There are notches under their chins where the lashing will go to attach the head.

Just before sunset last night, I got the layout for a new Pahu drawn on too:

I'll work on this today.

But first, I have to do a post where I thank all of you for the Birthday wishes.
Buzzy Out!