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Buzzy's work: Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate
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Wed, May 26, 2010 6:59 AM
Smoke??? how cool is that. |
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Wed, May 26, 2010 7:22 AM
Smoke rings? Awesome Buzzy. I used to have a smoke ring generator years ago. It had a donut shaped exhaust valve, kinda like a miniature extrusion die. I think you would require a better source of smoke than an incense cone - like a small Halloween smoke machine hidden inside (but then you would have an electrical cord to deal with not to mention having to pour smoke generating liquid into a reservoir and such...bad idea?) It can't be too far off into the future when you come up with a way to tune (tighten) the drum head material uniformly around the perimeter. Anyway Buzzy I tell you man, I'm awestruck one day with your skills and then come back a day later and you up the ante on me!! AWESOME DUDE! The Buzzy tiki-drums get better with every new attempt :o Take Care, G |
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Wed, May 26, 2010 10:16 AM
You da MAN!!!! |
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Wed, May 26, 2010 11:25 AM
Really great work Buzzy! |
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Wed, May 26, 2010 11:36 AM
SMOKIN' HOT Master Buzz!! |
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Wed, May 26, 2010 6:32 PM
That Is truly GENIOUS Buzzy!!! |
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Thu, May 27, 2010 1:47 AM
....Ahhhh Yeah, NICE Buzz.!!!! |
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Thu, May 27, 2010 1:05 PM
Awesome drum. The smoke idea is pure genius. I am guessing you would need to generate a lot of smoke to continuously spew it out of the 3 mouths. Maybe a dry ice/fog machine would give you what you need. You could plug one of the mouths or shrink the passageways so it shoots out farther. Can't wait to see this drum in action. |
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Thu, May 27, 2010 2:42 PM
a smoking tiki drum,what a cool idea,cant wait to see what you come up with next |
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Sat, May 29, 2010 9:48 AM
BuzzMaster, You're Really Cookin' |
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Wed, Jun 2, 2010 6:41 PM
YIKES! Que caliente! (Insert smoke joke here.) |
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Bay Park Buzzy
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Thu, Jun 3, 2010 5:55 PM
Some sunsets: I got some color on the drum. Here it is after a couple coats of various stains: Right before a little sealer: And in the final finishing stages: I got the head on it too. I'll have better pictures of it when the light outside gets better this evening My back acted up again so what little work I could manage lately was done on the drum. I did make this little pendant a few days ago: I also slapped out another Moai: Thanks for all the comments...I'll be trying to catch up with all those soon... I'm off to Caliente! |
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Thu, Jun 3, 2010 7:11 PM
Knockout job on the stains, Buzz! I vote that the best piece you're ever carved. Concur? Also, did you try Freaky Boutiki for incense? |
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Thu, Jun 3, 2010 7:25 PM
Buzzy that drum is outta control !! Hell Yeah |
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Thu, Jun 3, 2010 7:56 PM
awesome drum, buzz! the different stains really make the logo stand out. |
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Thu, Jun 3, 2010 8:16 PM
That stain job just put it in first, and if the smoke thing works itll be effen awesome! |
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Thu, Jun 3, 2010 8:33 PM
Not finding incense in PB?!?!?!!??! WTF???!?!?!?! Went to Buzzy's house today. The dog attacked me again. Then it calmed down suddenly. I think I just froze and it couldn't see me, like it has Jurassic Park-style motion vision and things disappear if you don't move. It looked like this: Then when I moved JUST A BIT it went nutzo again and ATTACKED! The drum looks great, it actually looks like it's inlaid wood. |
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Thu, Jun 3, 2010 9:12 PM
Wow Buzzy,.....an awesome drum......im always amazed at the quality We are all humbled in the presence of the master........ DISCLAIMER..I am in no way affiliated with Buzzy...nor has any form of Monetary |
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Thu, Jun 3, 2010 9:46 PM
cannon balls! |
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Thu, Jun 3, 2010 10:23 PM
Great Job on the new drum!! |
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Thu, Jun 3, 2010 11:51 PM
You have made some amazing pieces and that drum is well and truly up there at the top. Awesome work. |
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Fri, Jun 4, 2010 12:11 AM
The drum is absolutely gorgeous. GROG look forward to seeing it in person. |
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Fri, Jun 4, 2010 3:53 PM
New drum = MASTERPIECE really really fine work Buzz. Clever design too. I hope the smoke works out, that will be so cool! |
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Sun, Jun 6, 2010 11:59 AM
That drum has got it all. Beautifully carved ... a cool twist with the smoke ...but the finish is what puts it over the top for me. Really outstanding! |
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Mon, Jun 7, 2010 6:40 PM
Buzz the drum is killer! |
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Bay Park Buzzy
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Tue, Jun 8, 2010 1:11 AM
So I have a bunch of comments to catch up on so here goes...
Yes, I know exactly what kind of wood it is: It's LogBobWood from the LogBobTree.
I'm surprised Bob looks so happy all the time, being that he's so ugly and all...What's a Bob? I'm not really sure, but I do know that you need one if anyone is to take you seriously in the tiki community.
According to Bob himself...
Let me know if any of you need that picture
I don't wear it full time until after the fourth of July weekend. for now though, I keep an emergency pair of speedo in the car
The next stenciling I did for this part of the drum:
No. I don;t think I've seen Wheeler do a Bob yet. We'll make a contest/game of naming the Bob carver. Contest starts now...Go!
I'll put you on "the list." Check back soon on that...
You can;t blame my dog when you come over wearing a pair of these on your feet: and you forgot to mention that you always come over with something like this for her:
that one one the left The camera picture
thanks T. It was a joy to do.
I'll do what whatever I can do, and more importantly, whatever my country needs me to do to in the name of tiki.
Awesome! Te, the other guy, is a blast from my past. He looks like he's been happy there the last couple of years. Bob's smile shines on! Glad he made it safely.
I'll put you on that list right after I find it and put Cammo's Bob on it.
carve ridges, then sand them smooth with a angle grinder with 40 grit sand paper wheel. then I run my hands together parallel to each other up and down the bell sides to feel uneven parts. Think of it kind of like throwing the sides of a piece of clay on a potter's wheel. My hands should feel the same distance apart from the rim to the base of the bell. it takes a long time to do. About a day and a half of crappy hard work.
I'm having a blast pushing it, trying to find the limits of this medium...
After all this Blah Blah Blah is over, I'll post the final, final pictures of it.
The smoke worked. It even made puffs of differing sizes, depending on how hard you hit the drum. the only problem was the smoke wasn't thick enough. I think a glass with a cube of dry ice would work perfect. there was planty of smoke, it just wasn't the right kind of smoke.
I got a lot of positive feedback on it.
I was a proud pappa seeing both those drums up there. Here's the Martini Kings Drum in action poolside Saturday:
I've been working on that...I have a test set to do for Tikiyaki real soon to see if I can make an easily tunable drum work. I got pretty close with the first pahu I tried. i just need to find the right lashing. Natural looking, with no give. I also have a new one that I have to start to do, and one more that I want to do right now. I might have a drum or two in my future still...
thanks Hank.
Is that a picture of Alka seltzer in a tiki mug filled with a signature tiki coctail?
thanks TG
Thanks to you too JAB. Where you been?
EXACTLY! dry ice with a small uplight would probably give the desired effect.
monkeys, drums, tikis, mugs, pendants, and lots of other things that have yet to come up...
that's the smoke from the drum.
thanks Andy.
If I go by what everyone has told me, it;s the best piece. I'd have to think about that before I concur. there's so much crap I've done to ponder...
thanks Spermy!
I had to make something worthy of the event. I still couldn;'t bring myself to paint the teeth on the tikis white like on the tropics tiki...
I will concur that it may be the best stain job I've done
the only things you can get in PB now are pot and booze, apparently.
Did the check clear yet?
I think that pool actually saved my life on saturday afternoon
Always.
Wait until you see the next one. (I hope.)
I look forward to seeiung GROG in person.
This one was super fun to do, and well worth the extra effort I put into to it
thanks Amate.
And finally: THANKS SEEKS! I'm caught up now. Now the final final finished pictures of the drum that you all seem to like so well:
I'll be starting some new stuff tomorrow. [ Edited by: Bay Park Buzzy 2010-06-14 21:23 ] |
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Tue, Jun 8, 2010 3:23 PM
Definitely your best drum yet. |
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Mon, Jun 14, 2010 9:18 PM
Poki - Queen of the log pile! Zaya |
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Bay Park Buzzy
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Mon, Jun 14, 2010 9:22 PM
Today's sunset: The Log Bob Tree has some Log Bob Flowers in bloom: I haven't done much work lately because my back problem has been lingering. Today I cleaned up the log that will most likely my next big drum project: For another project I have coming up, I'm making and testing some lumber for it. here's one log all sliced up:
thanks GROG! Hopefully, I'll be back to work tomorrow. [ Edited by: Bay Park Buzzy 2010-06-14 21:24 ] |
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Bay Park Buzzy
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Tue, Jun 15, 2010 10:31 PM
Today's sunset: Not much work done today. I did a little carving on this one: and cut some parts to make a prototype monkey Buzzy Out! |
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Bay Park Buzzy
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Thu, Jun 24, 2010 8:26 PM
A couple sunsets: I'll start off this post by saying goodbye to a loyal friend: My back's still too screwed to carve a lot, so I changed gears for a couple days and have been working on the mini surfboard a made a few weeks ago. I decided to do some woodburning designs on it. I started by making a paper master sketch. Here it is taped to the board: through a long and tedious process, I then transferred the master to the wood: Fired up the woodburner and started from the bottom: Moving up the design Here's where I am now with it: carving five minutes a day got this done after a few days: More later. [ Edited by: Bay Park Buzzy 2010-06-24 20:28 ] |
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Fri, Jun 25, 2010 3:56 AM
Yo Buzzy! Nice board :) http://www.flexcut.com/terms-conditions/ Freddie |
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Fri, Jun 25, 2010 9:29 AM
Oh Man! That is way too cool seeing those drums in action. Love your stuff...very inspiring!!! Surfboard is rad too. |
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Fri, Jun 25, 2010 3:59 PM
buzzy, loving the artwork on the board! |
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Bay Park Buzzy
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Tue, Jun 29, 2010 1:49 AM
It was cloudy all day today so I didn't get a sunset picture. To make up for it, here are some pictures from a movie I was watching that had some tikis in it: The teacher had writer's block so he was sleeping with two of his students to snap out of it. There's another tiki: Tiki update: I was able to do a little wood work today. I started by crafting a fin for my mini surfboard. I used a mounted belt sander with an extra spinning disc sander to do it from what was originally a square piece. Then I cut a box to hold it on the board: It's wafer thin Looking at it from this angle, the fin looks a little large: I started to do a bunch of wood burned patterns on the tikis, but they didn;t that look good. the grain makes it real hard to do details that small on the palm, and the end results didn't look right. I had to sand the new burnings off and then redo the original outlines. from there, I decided the best option was to just stain it. Anyone who surfs knows that red boards go faster than boards of any other color. With that in mind, I stained the bottom of the board red: I did a burned line around the edge of the board and did the red to there. then I did the tikis in a different shade of brown
After reading the fine print
Thanks AZsteve. Are you from Wilcox, AZ, by any chance? If you are, that would make us kind of neighbors. Well, not really neighbors, but you might live by some barren land next to wastewater storage facility(Twin lakes) my Grandparents bought out there. Someday,I'm going to live on that land in a VW bus.
Thanks seeks. the end result didn;t turn out as planned, so it's back to the drawing board for the next one. I think I'll make a mini 13 footer for he next one. Something for 1-1.5' days when you have nothing better to do but surf. Buzzy Out! |
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Tue, Jun 29, 2010 9:41 PM
Whoo hoo! on that board and the design. |
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Bay Park Buzzy
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Tue, Jul 6, 2010 1:26 AM
Can't have sunsets if there ain't no sun: Tiki Update: My back felt well enough towards the end of last week to start on a new project. This one is a large drum. It's a bit bigger than the other drums. Maybe 6-8 inches taller than the Tikiyaki,Martini Kings, and Tiki Caliente drums. First round of hollowing finished: Legs roughed with the chainsaw... With my newly refurbished tool, I made the legs all even: I also have another one of these that I spend about 15 minutes working on each day:
thanks seeks! I like the way it turned out, so i'll probably try to do a few more. Buzzy Out! |
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Tue, Jul 6, 2010 10:58 AM
Buzzy, you are the man! I have spent the last week or so going through all 237 pages of your work. You are truly a master carver! |
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Tue, Jul 6, 2010 9:14 PM
a big waterfall in the back would be awesome! |
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Bay Park Buzzy
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Wed, Jul 7, 2010 10:03 PM
Today's sunset: It's still paradise to me! The happiest moment of all is when I see that daylight shining through it. Hooray! After this step, it's all easy going until it's done: I'm hoping with the tunnel done, the back of the legs do not split while they are drying. Cross your fingers for me! I still need to round out the fronts of those legs too: I got the outside cleaned up a little bit too:
Holy Crap! that's a real undertaking you did there. I'll take the "Master Carver*" title with anb asterisk- The asterick will denote that I am the "tiki version" of that tag. Officially, I think that you have to give 20 years to your trade to be a true Master. I looked that up because I thought the title of Master Carver was being applied to tiki carvers around here a little too frequently and liberally. When I'm a true Master Carver, I'm going to start carving cigar store Indians and chainsaw bears up in the mountains, in a town that time forgot.
Speaking of chainsaw bears in the mountains: Nice work! I was up there this weekend and was quite impressed. You rock! Only a bit more than 15 years, and I will be a Master Carver! [ Edited by: Bay Park Buzzy 2010-07-08 01:35 ] |
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Thu, Jul 8, 2010 3:35 AM
So are you saying you've only been carving for about 5 years? And also, whilst I dont think this is a stupid question i'm also not trying to be a smartass, but is there not a way you can drill the inside of the drums out, or, I understand the wood is heavy, somehow use a lathe? I've only done 4 carvings so far myself, but seeing your drums has inspired me to give one of them a go at some stage as well. I personally can see myself doing a hell of a lot of drilling and then cleaning the rest of it up with a chisel. Or am I being silly? [ Edited by: swizzle 2010-07-08 03:37 ] |
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Thu, Jul 8, 2010 12:46 PM
Buzz, you guys need some sunshine there! Head over here to the Eastern part of the country, we're damn near tropical lately. Sunny and in the 90's almost everyday. I was in Boston last week and it was scorching. Love the surfboards! I'm going to get back into doing some surf theme items for Festiki coming up. I did a surfboard towel rack for my half bath here at the house that was a lot of fun. Made a fin like you did and a little fin box for it to fit in. Fun stuff doing all that micro work! And easier on the back! Love the progress on the drum! Take it easy and take care of that back! |
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Bay Park Buzzy
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Fri, Jul 9, 2010 12:15 AM
Right before it got dark, there was a hint that there is still a sun out there somewhere: Tiki Update: Poki thought she'd take up the slack and show you guys what she's up to: Playing with her new favorite toy: We call it "Goat."
#1 Yes, in fact, it will be 5 years next month. I started sometime in the summer of '05 with my first tiki. then it took a few months to get some more logs, and I started back up in October of '05. Since then, Ive been carving continuously and I've only had a couple months off here and there due to injuries or accidents. #2 I've seen a lathe that makes really big bowls on tv, but I think they are a little out of my price range. I'm sure it would work, but I just kind of make due with what I have. the type of wood you use would be way harder. I'm lucky because the palm center is pretty soft and I can take it out against the grain. Here'show I do it. #3 Sounds like it would work. It would probably take forever...Problems such as these are the high hurdles that keep people from attempting to do these type of projects. Too much stress, too much work. My props to anyone brave enough to try one. Good luck!
Actually I like it like this. I can still wear shorts and a tshirt all day, work outside for hours on end and never get hot or sunburned. I'm sure it will be blazing hot soon enough. for now, I;'ll just count my blessings. Got a match? [ Edited by: Bay Park Buzzy 2010-07-09 00:29 ] |
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Thu, Jul 15, 2010 10:06 PM
So, is there another Chip'n Males poster in line for oasis this year? I have a spot all ready for it in the studio. Goat - :lol: |
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Fri, Jul 23, 2010 9:57 PM
It's been cloudy a lot here lately I had a second surfboard mini blank done a while back. It was based on the porportions of this board: Like the other one, I decided to do one of those tiki drawing woodburning deals. It started with a paper cutout of the boards outline and a did lot of penciling, measuring, and erasing. Then I took my drawing and xeroed it to make a taped together clean master stencil. Here's one piece of the design: I use that to transfer it on to the board: And then I burn round one: I still have the top design to fancy up a bit and do the logo, but the rest is done: The other board is done. I just haven't gotten aqround to photoing it yet. Buzzy Out! |
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Fri, Jul 23, 2010 10:02 PM
Totally loving the boards Buzz! Two of my favorite things together in one... surf and tiki! I'll trade you your dry clouds for our clouds that dropped 7 inches of rain last night and flooded my basement. 3 more inches heading our way tonight. I'll bet that Southern California wouldn't know what to do with all that freshwater! |
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Mon, Jul 26, 2010 7:34 PM
Whoo hoo a board for kings! |
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Mon, Jul 26, 2010 11:33 PM
great work on the boards, buzz! |
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