{"id":233,"date":"2006-05-07T00:35:06","date_gmt":"2006-05-06T14:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=233"},"modified":"2006-05-07T00:54:19","modified_gmt":"2006-05-06T14:54:19","slug":"new-bodhran-tipper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=233","title":{"rendered":"New bodhran tipper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The bodhran is an Irish frame drum. At the recent St Alban&#8217;s Festival I gave away my tipper (single double-headed stick) to the bodhran player in the band <em>Mothers of Intention<\/em> &#8211; I figured I would soon enough get around to turning another one.<\/p>\n<p>Today I ventured out to my shed, selected a branch from our mulberry tree &#8211; which had died last year in the drought &#8211; and cut a suitable length. I mounted it between centres and roughed out the shape. Then I brought out the shape properly, using a spindle gouge, to shape the ends and a nice bead around one-third of the way from one end.<\/p>\n<p>Then I removed the tool rest and sanded the piece and applied a little beeswax polish, before cutting the tipper free and giving a little touch of sandpaper and polish at the ends. And here is the result:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image231\" alt=\"bodhran tipper\" src=\"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/bodhrantipper.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And here it is next to the bodhran \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image232\" alt=\"Walton bodhran with tipper\" src=\"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/bodhranandtipper.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This should last quite a while!<\/p>\n<p>Cheers<br \/>\nJerry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bodhran is an Irish frame drum. At the recent St Alban&#8217;s Festival I gave away my tipper (single double-headed stick) to the bodhran player in the band Mothers of Intention &#8211; I figured I would soon enough get around to turning another one. Today I ventured out to my shed, selected a branch from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","category-music","category-woodwork"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}