Post #53648 by tiki410 on Fri, Oct 3, 2003 9:58 AM

Actually there are some relatively inexpensive (I would not say necessarily quality due to design)tapa's appearing on ebay. I recently picked one up and have been continually searching for others.

I do not believe that people ship them properly and sometimes they come with creases. Make sure they pack them correctly.

One I picked up is hanging on a wall. My wife liked it so much that she wanted to put it under glass but I told her no way. I went ahead and split a piece of six foot bamboo and then I went to office depot and picked up about a dozen small binder clips. I clipped them on the end of the tapa and took off the "slivery thingies" that you use to open up the binder clips. I then took the two pieces of bamboo and clamped them together over the clips. After that I took some rope and dunked them in residual coffee in order to stain it the color of the bamboo and binded the bamboo pieces together on the ends.

I know that people could come up with probably better ideas but the total cost of hanging was around $10 and it looks sharp.