Post #561712 by Bay Park Buzzy on Tue, Oct 26, 2010 4:26 PM

Maybe the day before yesterday sunset?


It's finally sunny here. I'm doing my usual post storm damage inventory so I can file my claim with FEMA right away.

There was that scene in Repo Man where HDS is at the liquor store and the clerk says "Have a good night." HDS says "Day, night, don't mean shit." For a majority of my life after seeing that scene, I would always repeat that line when a clerk told me to "have a good night."
When I was a clek at a liquor store, I had nicknames for regular customers: Peach schnapps guy, Cunado, Trail Boss, Sarge, OkieTexastony, Painter dude, El Raton, DrunkMom, etc. I wonder if any of those clerks I talked back to ever assigned me the nickname "Asshole guy." It would've fit, from thier perspectives. I just considered it payback for all the shit I took behind the counter all those years. I'm forever trying to balance the ledger of life in my constant pursuit of equailty for one and all.
The only thing all this has to do with tiki is that it doesn;t seem to matter when I get my work done, as long as I get it done, right? So, day, night, it don't mean shit. That's my new carving motto because I find myself working only at night lately. I try to start earlier in the day, but I'm too tired from working until all hours of the morning to start before sunset. Anyway, here's my last night's work.
It was drafting night again...

Next step on the drum bell was to get it all gridded out:

I also carved in the border lines of the new triangle designs

After that, I took the requested/supplied logo and made it a little more carving friendly and balanced:

The white sheet was the orignal and the yellow sheet was my hand drawn first draft. The yellow sheet is the same size as the area on the drum that needs to be covered.

I used my ghetto light box and another sheet of tracing paper to make the cleaned up master:

the top of the "s" was off so I redid it on the actual drum later on

then I tape that on the drum to see if it fits:

I want the whole image to be readable while looking at it straight on.

It was just right, so I traced it on to the drum:

Tonight's carving night!

On 2010-10-24 09:57, Lake Surfer wrote:
Buzzy, you are truly the master of tikified percussion instruments!

After this one, I think I'm going to Jim Brown it and go out on top...

On 2010-10-26 15:54, MadDogMike wrote:
SUNSET ALERT - I took tis pic this morning and it's heading your way - should be there in about 2 hours!

PS - drum is looking great, can you carve me a tiki trombone :D

it's looking pretty hazy right now. Today's sunset forecast is poor.
Trombone? Sure thing band geek!

I have to go to work now...
Buzzy Out!