[Didjeridu] Things I've Recently Learned...

[Karl & Sue Kalbaugh]

That you may find interesting, amusing, maybe even useful:

 - hickory makes a great didge. It weighs a ton and is hell on tools,
however.
 - I love oak, but man, it seems very suseptable to cracking/checking
 - carbide blade/bits CAN crack and come apart
 - one can, with practice, make a very clean rip cut using a reciprocating
saw and a metal cutting blade.
 - brown Aves "Apoxy Clay" is the high fuctose corn syrup of didge making
 - in-laying isn't hard, just tedious
 - you think hickory is tough... Try wild locust! (I'll never use that wood
again!).
 - Ted Koppel thinks the didgeridoo is cool
 - you can make a sculpture garden out of the bits of wood you cut off the
ends of your didges

And finally,

 - that setting up a MySpace page is pretty dang easy. I have a gallery up
of the didges I've made:
http://www.myspace.com/karlkalbaugh


Okay... TREEMAN in 2 weeks in Ithaca, NY!!

Hope everyone is well!!

Karl Kalbaugh