Post #547292 by Bay Park Buzzy on Sun, Aug 8, 2010 9:08 PM

Sunset:

I got the tiki burned on to the board

And then stained the rest of it:


In the background, there are some bunnies that I'm babysitting. Poki has no problems with them, but Ringo stayed over here a few `days last week and he barked at them for three straight days. I eventually had to build a wall around them because if he saw them, he'd bark endlessly.

I also finished staining board #2

Here's the fin for it:

Now I'll finish one to keep the white as white as possible, and the other to make the white as brown as possible...

About a million years ago, Jimiyaki and I discussed making a set of durable tunable drums. I told him I'd make a prototype and see how it would work. It took me a while to figure it all out in my head, but I finally got it all figured out. A little geometry and a lot of measuring and the protype is done

Step by step
Decorated the tube with some scrap tapa like material. I uesd scrap just in case it didn't work:

Now that I know it will work, I'll use different/better wrapping. It didn;t turn out bad, but when you look carefully at it you'll notice it's a quilt of tapa pattern scraps.

Next I drilled some holes:

Then added some goat and rope:

The end result: a tunable, durable Drum.

Before and after type shot:

Next step is making set with one this size, a matching larger and smaller ones, with hardware to connect the three. I didn't get the larger size pipe yet because they only sell it in 20' lengths. I didn;t want to invest in 20' of raw materials if it didn;t work. But 20' of pipe sure does make a lot of drums...Poor goats.

On 2010-08-03 12:59, 4WDtiki wrote:
Buzz, I'm intrigued as to how you are cutting these blanks. Did you build a sawmill, or are you just freehanding it with the chainsaw?
Those are palm, correct?

Yes, they are regular mexi-palm. I just cut some parallel lines in a log with the chainsaw and shaped them down to boards from the rectangular slabs. I got six pieces out of one log.

On 2010-08-03 13:32, coconuttzo wrote:
I would love to make a pendant out of that model. Can I :P?
Is this for actual surfing or mainly decorative.
If the latter, then shallow relief carving the objects would just be the icing on the cake for that bad boy. What are the boards made from.

you have my blessing to make a pendant out of that model. In fact, to help you, I'll provide you with my master source that I used on my drawing:

I grabbed a tiki off the shelf, took that b+w picture of it with a couple well placed lights and did a freehand master sketch from the photo. I changed the shape of the eyes and headress to fit the shape of the rails and nose on the board better. for my drawing, I just drew out the left side and then made the right to match.

They're made out of Mexican fan palm. I made my own lumber slabs from a fat log. They're too small for surfing, so they're decorative(Longest one is about 47"). I waited too long after milling these pieces and they were too dry to carve. Originally, the slabs were made because I wanted to do a Maori Pare. i waited too long so I decided to make them into mini surfboards so as not to waste the wood I made.

On 2010-08-03 13:38, closettiki wrote:
Buzzy....the boards are great...i hope you will be vending at Oasis,,,,,
will there be boards ?.......
will there be a new ..Mr Carving Village pinup?
its tradition you know.......

Yes, i will once again grace Tiki oasis with my presence.
Yes, I will be peddling my wares, including surfboards, there again.
and Yes, there will be a pinup, because it's a TikiOasis tradition.

On 2010-08-03 19:58, TheBigT wrote:
Awesome boards. So I guess you're burning right over the patterns and then the patterns go bye bye?

I xerox the original on to ledger sized paper at Office Depot and then use those copies as a stencil. I usually cut out the pieces and trace around them, and then fill in the smaller lines inside the shapes I stencil on. My burner runs pretty hot, so it would probably ignite the paper if I did it that other way.

On 2010-08-03 13:08, MadDogMike wrote:
Speaking of photos, how's the cheesecake coming for Oasis?

I'd have to admit, I'm looking better than ever!
Buzzy Out!

[ Edited by: Bay Park Buzzy 2010-08-08 21:17 ]