Post #480974 by Clarita on Wed, Sep 2, 2009 5:46 PM

This is the first set of drums I've carved, they are 30 years old, my mother bought them in '81 at the north of Brazil.
What is really cool about them is the colors the bamboo has. after I finish carving them Squid wanted to buy them, but I wanted to keep them because they have a special meaning to me.
I wanted to be able to make a new set for him. So I've bought green bamboo of all the sizes I needed, and thin leather for the patches. But as you know green bamboo it's very flashy green and it turn into yellow in time but the color it's flat.
So i've worked the green bamboo, burning, carving and pealing it until it looked like the old set. It wasn't easy, i've burned, cracked and broken stuff on the way, I had to start over one of them twice! My fingers really hurt... but I didn't give up and i'm proud :)


this is the second set made entirely by me from scratch, that imitates the colors of the old ones

and here are some pics to see the differences between sets

There you go surfin

still no sun here, this are with electric light, i didn't wanted to upload to many heavy pics, so i tought this photoshop pics were good enough to see the differences. i didn't have the patience to make them better :)
Aloha! hope you like

My Space

[ Edited by: Clarita 2009-09-02 18:28 ]