Giant cat toys, they are!
Jan. 25th, 2009 12:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gurdymonkeyOkedodaiko are done - and as soon as my laundry is, I have to run out and get more cordage to rope the three "mini" shime.
![[image]](https://farm4.static.flickr.com/3368/3225680033_1d4b3ce173.jpg)
And here are the baby shime-daiko. Seeing as the tubing was acquired as a result of an auspicious dumpster dive, I opted to work with the proportions of the tube rather than go with larger drum heads.The finished shime have a height of about 4 1/2" and a head diameter of about 9"
THIS is an awesome website on constructing okedodaiko:
http://members.cox.net/drum/okedo01.htm
They are light weight. They SOUND like drums. They will endure the extremes of February in Arizona better than a wine barrel with rawhide stretched over it. I built enough drums to teach my class without going broke, and I did it with a hand saw, a pair of utility scissors and a paint brush within the confines of my apartment and the alley outside!
A Certain Person would do well to put that in her critical inkstone and grind it. Contact paper my ass.
I am DAMN proud of my stuff-makin' skills.
And here are the baby shime-daiko. Seeing as the tubing was acquired as a result of an auspicious dumpster dive, I opted to work with the proportions of the tube rather than go with larger drum heads.The finished shime have a height of about 4 1/2" and a head diameter of about 9"
THIS is an awesome website on constructing okedodaiko:
http://members.cox.net/drum/okedo01.htm
They are light weight. They SOUND like drums. They will endure the extremes of February in Arizona better than a wine barrel with rawhide stretched over it. I built enough drums to teach my class without going broke, and I did it with a hand saw, a pair of utility scissors and a paint brush within the confines of my apartment and the alley outside!
A Certain Person would do well to put that in her critical inkstone and grind it. Contact paper my ass.
I am DAMN proud of my stuff-makin' skills.
