Post #517536 by Bay Park Buzzy on Mon, Mar 15, 2010 1:08 PM

Sunsets:



It stays light forever now! I was out there working until after 7 yesterday. We also have a heat wave today. Welcome Spring Breakers!

I did the markings on the upper part of the drum:

Now it just needs to dry up and not crack and I'll finish it up. I still have the feet to do. Not quite sure what I want to do there yet. On the bell, I didn't do the typical intricate work that I usually do on the drums because I'm trying to do something a little different stylewise on this one. My plan is to leave the head about 1-2" longer than where it's attached to so that the head will dry up and be wavy/shrivled beneath the binding.

After I finished that drum, I got a very nice log ready for another one of those big drums I do.

After I get some artwork sent to me, I'll be spending a few days on that lovely piece of wood...

since I had a couple days before I'd be able start on the new drum, I wanted to cram another quick carving in. I've been wanting to do a cannibal totem for several months now, and have had a log all ready to go for it for months now too. I brought it in the other night and got the log sectioned out so I could start laying the tikis out:

For some reason though, right after this, I just wasn't "feelin' it." So, I didn;t want to force it, and moved on...

to this:

It's a split log that's been sitting in my living room for about 3 years. It's areally nice piece, and totally dry all the way through. I think this is the first totally dry piece of palm I've ever worked on

i'm totally into doing cutouts/throughs right now. There are a few here that are a little more challenging to do.
One step at a time:

Between the legs cutout done:

Over the butt and behind the backs cutout done:

I have to connect those two cutouts next

Butts are apart and the upper cut out done:

next step was to do the profile. I use a 2"flat chisel to do this part

Here it is now, all the hard stuff done:

Now the fun part!

On 2010-03-11 07:48, MadDogMike wrote:
Amazing engineering study Buzzy,

I really just throw it all together randomly without any plan and come up with some legit sounding cover my ass book smart answer, when called out on it.

In honor of...

On 2010-03-11 13:19, GROG wrote:

We have one more hour of light so that are days are that much longer and more productive!

On 2010-03-11 13:38, pdrake wrote:
japanese flush cut saws are the best tools to remove the ends of those dowels.

I got one of them. I already sized them when I cut them. They're just sitting in there until the legs dry a bit and i can glue them in. I left the ends out a bit because the holes will shrink and I have to use pliers to get them out.

On 2010-03-11 18:18, seeksurf wrote:
Dam that Ringo. Here is to Buzzy Month!

at least he didn't waste a good log...

On 2010-03-12 09:52, Tiki Joe's Pop wrote:
Enjoy your month of personal entitlement, man! :lol:

I'm living every moment of it like it's my very last.

On 2010-03-12 18:20, MadDogMike wrote:
Buzz, how does this get to be your month?

It just does. I don't make the rules, i just use them to maximize my personal wealth and fame.

And now, for everyone's new favorite House of Buzz feature,

The Dog Blog,

featuring Poki, Ringo, and special guest Baron:

My cousin came over for a couple days and brought his giant doberman over to play. He's the big and dark one:

Poki and he had a lot of fun play fighting:

Poki really has a lot of heart and really hung in there againstbthe big guy. She'd steal whatever he was playing with and make him run her down to get it back

Ringo just stood in the background non stop barking all day while they wrestled :

that Ringo is a noisy one.

here, Poki practices some dog jiu jitsu by fighting from her guard:

Things have settled down a bit since those wild times...

Buzzy Out!