I've been given a new bodrahn and wondered if anyone knows the best way to get an image on the front. I'd quite like a pint of guinness picture. Does anyone have any ideas how to do this and what other pictures I could have? Could I iron on a transfer? If the iron is too hot would it melt the imitation (plastic) goat skin?
If it really is a plastic skin, I would recommend first of all cleaning it thoroughly with something like trichlorethylene - that should do the trick. If it doesn't make a satisfactory job then use the iron as you suggested, but I think it needs to be really hot.
How about a picture of Che Guevara? A bodhran with that on it would really stand out when played in a large group of say seven or eight other bodhrans.
Score it gently with a new Stanley Knife blade, then carefully etch the image into the plastic with battery acid. Then apply the hot iron.
I saw a couple of kids walking down the road here yesterday. One looked like he was drinking the acid out of a battery and the the other was chewing a firework . I called the local police and they charged the first, and they let the other one off.
(It's alright, I was already leaving...)
What about Maggie Thatcher (ex miners and other afflicted groups who survived 1980s Britain will know where I'm coming from) - then you can really give it some stick!!
Why not take it to your local tattoo emporium? I'm sure they'd have a selection of tasteful designs, plus you could add some strategically placed tongue studs, eyebrow rings, and spikes. If the goat (or, in this case, wild nauga) wasn't over 18 years, you will probably have to sign a waiver as its legal guardian. A nice polished chrome tipper with broadhead razor points should round out the look nicely....
How are we ever going to get rid of the tubthumpers and encourage the kind of folk that will dedicate the time and effort to learn this unstrument if all we do is take the piss out of 'em. Folk that have found this site are not going to be the sort that wreck sessions, and the relentless barrage of abuse that potential Bodhran players get here will only turn them away.
Yohan - clever post, but surely it would be a bit more original to post a thread that takes the mickey out of tougher game - its always easy to shoot the lame duck.
You B**ta*rds! You F*kin Bst*rds!! I've been trying to play this flookin drum for years but I didn't realise how much everyone else hates us! That's it. I'm giving the thing up. Find something easier to play that everyone likes. Now where's that fiddle...
LOL -- for what it's worth, the people with the best bodhran jokes tend to be the better bodhran players. But if you're feeling picked upon, we can switch at a moment's notice. Anyone got any new fiddle jokes? I'm tired of that big head one!
Heh. Cr*p, Charlie, and there I was thinking that that was all the fiddle was good for, flogging it as an excuse for a pause between swigs -- see, it seems the bodhran types have far more reason to play the thing than a fiddler ever has to play the fiddle!
Hey yohan - no need for apologies, tongue was firmly in cheek, was going to sign of as "angry from chichister" or "disgruntled from plymouth" but not sure where in the world you are - you can't post stuff like that and expect us goat lovers to take it lying down!!
Greenman - be carefull making the holes in the O'Kane, remember a good riddle has lots of little holes - maybe a cigarette would be best, with heat sealing the holes. Good luck and let me know how you get on when you join the riddle section.
nb, would a Boder'han be like ledder hosen? - imagine that, a leather percussion suit with buckles. And a picture of Maggie on the cod piece.
I was just going to post "Here I am in my leather percussion suit with buckles. And a picture of Thatcher on the cod piece, and me holding my new O'Kane riddle sifting some stuff" but I just couldn't bring myself to do it.
my big drum thing...
my big drum thing...
I've been given a new bodrahn and wondered if anyone knows the best way to get an image on the front. I'd quite like a pint of guinness picture. Does anyone have any ideas how to do this and what other pictures I could have? Could I iron on a transfer? If the iron is too hot would it melt the imitation (plastic) goat skin?
# Posted on October 16th 2003 by Yohan
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Ewan, you lamer...LOL
# Posted on October 16th 2003 by Zina Lee
Oh, and btw, I think drawing a pint with knotwork all round the edges of the drum with markers would be quite stylish.
# Posted on October 16th 2003 by Zina Lee
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Yohan
If it really is a plastic skin, I would recommend first of all cleaning it thoroughly with something like trichlorethylene - that should do the trick. If it doesn't make a satisfactory job then use the iron as you suggested, but I think it needs to be really hot.
How about a picture of Che Guevara? A bodhran with that on it would really stand out when played in a large group of say seven or eight other bodhrans.
Dave
# Posted on October 16th 2003 by showaddydadito
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I recommend a picture of an anchor with a W above it.
# Posted on October 16th 2003 by Geoff Pollitt
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Well, any image is on a bodhran is better than the bad image it usually has
John
# Posted on October 16th 2003 by Johnny Jay
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Score it gently with a new Stanley Knife blade, then carefully etch the image into the plastic with battery acid. Then apply the hot iron.
I saw a couple of kids walking down the road here yesterday. One looked like he was drinking the acid out of a battery and the the other was chewing a firework . I called the local police and they charged the first, and they let the other one off.
(It's alright, I was already leaving...)
# Posted on October 16th 2003 by Ottery
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What's a bodrahn, anyway? Oh I get it - it's a bodhr
# Posted on October 16th 2003 by Rudall the time
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Why are you guys always making fun of bodhr
# Posted on October 16th 2003 by jerball
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What about Maggie Thatcher (ex miners and other afflicted groups who survived 1980s Britain will know where I'm coming from) - then you can really give it some stick!!
# Posted on October 16th 2003 by Bannerman
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Check out 'Bodraness' - a member of this site - she had a myriad of stuff 'put' on her bodhrans.
Jim
# Posted on October 16th 2003 by Worldfiddler
Sorry - I meant 'Bodhraness'.
Jim
# Posted on October 16th 2003 by Worldfiddler
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Why not take it to your local tattoo emporium? I'm sure they'd have a selection of tasteful designs, plus you could add some strategically placed tongue studs, eyebrow rings, and spikes. If the goat (or, in this case, wild nauga) wasn't over 18 years, you will probably have to sign a waiver as its legal guardian. A nice polished chrome tipper with broadhead razor points should round out the look nicely....
# Posted on October 16th 2003 by Will Harmon
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But if it wants a Prince Albert, then tell it it'll have to wait until it's legal and out on it's own...
# Posted on October 16th 2003 by Zina Lee
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How are we ever going to get rid of the tubthumpers and encourage the kind of folk that will dedicate the time and effort to learn this unstrument if all we do is take the piss out of 'em. Folk that have found this site are not going to be the sort that wreck sessions, and the relentless barrage of abuse that potential Bodhran players get here will only turn them away.
Yohan - clever post, but surely it would be a bit more original to post a thread that takes the mickey out of tougher game - its always easy to shoot the lame duck.
Personally I prefer fishing.
# Posted on October 16th 2003 by clunk999
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fair enough clunk - I have the utmost respect for bodhran players - yep I've just read your profile - sorry..
# Posted on October 16th 2003 by Yohan
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You B**ta*rds! You F*kin Bst*rds!! I've been trying to play this flookin drum for years but I didn't realise how much everyone else hates us! That's it. I'm giving the thing up. Find something easier to play that everyone likes. Now where's that fiddle...
\())
# Posted on October 16th 2003 by greenman
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sorry Greenman - I'll swap you your bodhran for my gold kazoo if you like...
# Posted on October 16th 2003 by Yohan
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Gold kazoo schmazzoo! I'm going to make my rubbish O'Kane into a garden implement. After I find that fiddle...
# Posted on October 16th 2003 by greenman
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LOL -- for what it's worth, the people with the best bodhran jokes tend to be the better bodhran players. But if you're feeling picked upon, we can switch at a moment's notice. Anyone got any new fiddle jokes? I'm tired of that big head one!
# Posted on October 16th 2003 by Zina Lee
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Mr. Clunk! "Lame duck"? Shame on you! Sorry, no, maybe you're right. Shoot us. Lets get it over with...(can't put my hands on that wretched fiddle...)
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# Posted on October 16th 2003 by greenman
Fiddle jokes? There are fiddle jokes?!! I'll stop bl**dy looking then. No point. Surely no jokes about the set of pipes...?
# Posted on October 16th 2003 by greenman
...it's hardly funny, is it?
# Posted on October 16th 2003 by greenman
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A plastic boder'han?
Nice Yohan! i can see why it was given to you.
This site is for those who feel that there must be more to playing the Bodhr
# Posted on October 16th 2003 by irish ruff
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http://www.bodhranwisdom.co.uk/index2.html
# Posted on October 16th 2003 by irish ruff
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Heh. Cr*p, Charlie, and there I was thinking that that was all the fiddle was good for, flogging it as an excuse for a pause between swigs -- see, it seems the bodhran types have far more reason to play the thing than a fiddler ever has to play the fiddle!
# Posted on October 16th 2003 by Zina Lee
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Playing the fiddle is the least that the bodhr
# Posted on October 16th 2003 by greenman
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How dare you slur the Blessed Margaret, Supreme Ruler of the Universe? She doesn't even play bodhran!
(I am an ex-miner and veteran of 3 strikes)
# Posted on October 16th 2003 by geoffwright
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...and yer out!
# Posted on October 16th 2003 by Yohan
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Hey yohan - no need for apologies, tongue was firmly in cheek, was going to sign of as "angry from chichister" or "disgruntled from plymouth" but not sure where in the world you are - you can't post stuff like that and expect us goat lovers to take it lying down!!
Greenman - be carefull making the holes in the O'Kane, remember a good riddle has lots of little holes - maybe a cigarette would be best, with heat sealing the holes. Good luck and let me know how you get on when you join the riddle section.
nb, would a Boder'han be like ledder hosen? - imagine that, a leather percussion suit with buckles. And a picture of Maggie on the cod piece.
# Posted on October 16th 2003 by clunk999
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Dear Clunk,
I was just going to post "Here I am in my leather percussion suit with buckles. And a picture of Thatcher on the cod piece, and me holding my new O'Kane riddle sifting some stuff" but I just couldn't bring myself to do it.
# Posted on October 19th 2003 by greenman