But by the next morning, it was pliable enough for me to take it out of the bathtub (so I could take a shower!) and put into a smaller container, where it soaked for 3 days:
So I've been studying the holy grail and one of the most complicated issues was how and where to put the mimi. I spent a long time creating the cutting diagram for the skin and the template for the mimi slits. I wasn't sure how far out the mimi should be, or how much wiggle room I needed. You know the saying: measure twice, cut once. Here's what it ended up looking like with the dowels in:
And then it was time to stretch. The first stretch is when you start forming the shape of the heads on the barrel. It's not a tight stretch. It's more like an introduction: hello barrel, I'm skin, nice to meet you. Barrel: Hi skin, come here and give me a hug. The real stretching and tension comes later.This was also the part where I took those skeletons out of my closet and placed them on the floor. Also pulled out the rope and plywood and my fabulously tunged drum body. Things were really feeling like they were coming together. I researched and studied this for so long that I was halfway through putting the first pulls of tension on the skin when I realized: hey, I've never done this before--what am I doing? Am I doing this right? Why does this seem so easy? But then it was cool because everything seemed to be going just fine. I mean, I could be making mistakes or doing something horribly wrong, but right now, I'm happy with the results.
So here's what's all over the floor in my place:
Pretty cool huh?
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