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Yeah, I hate deleting the well-written post. I've done that a couple times.<br>
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I like the request for cans. <g> I gathered soda cans from the
recycle bins at SSU, and had beer-drinking friends save me their
funkiest looking beer cans. I still have a small library of already
cleaned and cut cans that date back over a dozen years ago. They all
are at least a little different than the current designs for the same
drink. Lately I've been having my brother save up Arizona tea cans. <br>
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Well over a dozen years ago, the tuba professor at Arizona State
University commissioned me to make an Arizona tea can didj. I made it
similar to the way you described, only I initially put the cans
together with clear tape. Then the resin. After using many different
brands and types, I finally settled on Envirotex. Worked great. Seemed pretty sound and sturdy..... but.... eventually... it became brittle and broke easily.<br>Kind
of hard to fix after that happens - at least without making it look
really nasty. The Pepsi can didj (on Peter's Didj USA CD cover) is one
example. Eventually I had to hold it tightly where it broke in order to
get it to play. The fit of the broken halves just got worse and worse.
Eventually I wrapped clear tape around it, but still... eventually,
with great sadness... I finally brought myself to just taking it to the
dump. It was a decent player with a big sound, but it was short-lived
due to the lack of structural integrity built into it. Resin alone
(whatever type) just doesn't offer enough structural integrity to make
a long lasting didj... at least in all my experiments. All the didjs I
made that way did not last much beyond a year. I know the Arizona can
didj is broken as well, because Phil Clarke was a tuba student at ASU,
and when he was at John Madill's gathering years ago, he told me how
they have to hold it together to give a big blast to start the
semester. Some time ago, John Morfit suggested just using fiberglass.
Once I finally took his advice, I wondered why I was so resistant to it
before. Yeah, it takes forever to work with it, and the sanding sucks,
but it is strong secure stuff. Anyway, excuse the rambling paragraph
here, but I've been planning to make a new Arizona tea can didj using
what I know now, using fiberglass on the interior. I have almost enough
cans saved up for it, and eventually, I'll get it made and send it as a
surprise replacement.<br>
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Streaming thought - Gorilla tape won't work for fixing a cheap wal-mart air mattress. <g><br>
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I can't think of his last name right now, but I know the Tim you are
talking about. Nice guy. I remember seeing him and his wife (outdoors)
play a song of the rattlesnake, and a rattlesnake honestly came. That
was really wild.<br>
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I just ran into a ceramic artist this weekend who is into making
ceramic didjs, and some snaked funky didjs reminiscent of Barry Hall.
He lives in Salisbury. I may get him to make me something weird.<br>
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Really looking good Karl - if you are looking for the weight you lost...<br>
I think I found it!<br><br>Keep me posted on how your didj holds up. I'm really interested in seeing if you were a able to make a better non-fiberglass can didj than I ever was.<br><br>Tim Whittemore
<br>Didjiridu and Tuba
<br><a href="http://www.bigblow-bushwackers.com">www.bigblow-bushwackers.com</a><br>to hear some clips:
<br><a href="http://www.cdbaby.com/bigblow4">www.cdbaby.com/bigblow</a>
<br><br><br><br><br>> From: kalbaugh@cox.net<br>> To: bbatb@hotmail.com; kalbaugh@cox.net; didjeridu@eartha.mills.edu<br>> Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:21:22 -0400<br>> Subject: RE: [Didjeridu] Just for fun: the Caneridoo<br>> <br>> I just finished writing a fairly long and well-worded response and then<br>> absent-mindedly hit "delete" instead of send! UGH... hate it when that<br>> happens!<br>> <br>> First off, Tim, apologies for choosing the wrong vowel in your name :)!<br>> <br>> My first order of business was to put out a request for soda cans on<br>> Freecycle.org. One lady came through with 70 cans collected at her office!<br>> <br>> I though that maybe Gorilla tape might be the way to hold together all the<br>> cut-open cans. On a whim I tested hot glue. And it was THE ticket. It<br>> practically welds aluminum together!<br>> <br>> For building the structure, I had a few ideas. I made a "bell ring" first,<br>> consisting of two long-ways folded opened/flattened cans. The fold opening<br>> was upwards, into which I seated vertical slats. Then changed to rings for<br>> structure integrity... another set of slats, the finished the length with<br>> rings.<br>> <br>> On the inside - two coats of fast curing resin and then two coats of<br>> envirotex. The outside got two coats of envirotex. Aves apoxy sculpt mouth<br>> piece. The thing has turned out very strong!<br>> <br>> While building the didge at The Soundry, many artists stopped and asked me<br>> if it would really play. LOL. It plays a b-natural, but has pretty low back<br>> pressure. If I attempt another one of these, I'll try to correct that.<br>> Perhaps a narrower bell. <br>> <br>> The opening was a great success! John Morfit and his son stopped in and we<br>> had a wonderful chat! Some of the other works there were stunning, thought<br>> provoking, and some whimsical. I fell into the last of those categories.<br>> <br>> the musical entertainment was a celtic-sounding band called "Kiva." They<br>> had a didge player (also named Tim). He played an agave and a North<br>> American hardwood of the aspen/poplar variety. Turned mouthpiece.<br>> <br>> The demo on the caneridoo was well received. Lots of applause and cheers.<br>> <br>> Yea... I lost about 60-odd lbs! Thanks for noticing. :)<br>> <br>> Best to you and everyone!<br>> <br>> (and now to hit "send" and NOT "delete....")<br>> <br>> Karl<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> --------------------------------------------------------------------<br>> mail2web - Check your email from the web at<br>> http://link.mail2web.com/mail2web<br>> <br>> <br></body>
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