This video was a lot of work! We put in a ton of energy and passion into it's creation. You can find our didgeridoos for sale in our Etsy shop: www.etsy.com/shop/EndlessBrea...
So I watched the entire thing, this is some fantastic work, I'd love to get my hands on some Agave, quite the interesting process coring out that soft centre. Weld done!!!
Things I enjoy; The porous texture of the wood and agave fire tornadoes, the various shop sounds (running wingnuts down w/ a lazy push of the finger is never not satisfying), and lastly, all these aforementioned subtleties would be lost if you didn't silently emote the whole thing. Subbed for more.
Flipante vaya curro! He hecho alguno echándole muchas horas y días sin tanto recurso con fuego y cincel es un proceso bonito pero este tío es un experto, vaya crack!, he flipado con lo de la piña para la boquilla, felicidades por el trabajo
I never knew how labor intensive it was to craft a didgeridoo, And yours are truly works of art! I'll have to save up to get one of yours. thanks for making this video for us!
Would love to make my own Didgeridoo. Just spent a bunch of money on a Didgeridoo that i have to finish working on. Almost choked on a wood splinter while playing it for the first time. I also want to remove the moldy looking water damage on the bell a well. That's what i get for buying a didge on Amazon 🤷♂️.
Top job sounds great. I've made a few agave didgeridoos. I've always split them lengthwise, carved out the pith and reglued. Yours look way more professional 😁 Keep on didgin. ❤️
how to play: just say "walk into a wall" or "walking through the water". its harder than boots and cats with beat boxing! (sorry im really enjoying this video and have a weird sense of humor)
Wow, what a lot of work, but the end result is by far worth it! I love how you used the same colour of the mouth piece resin, to seal the holes in the trunk all the way down to the bulb! Are they always red, or do you make them with other colours? Have you ever tried using hyper shift colours in your resin mouthpieces? That would be a cool way to seal a didgeridoo to use Hyper Shift Colors to create the mouthpiece and seal the sections of the trunk that needed it and perhaps to color the bulb? Just a suggestion, but I must say your work is amazing and the didgeridoo is such a fascinating instrument, how you play it is a mystery to me but the sound it produces is beyond compare!
I don’t know what the hell that thing is or what it’s used for but it’s beautiful. Very interesting device, I think it would sound really neat in the Alps but I think i would tire of hearing it for long inside at a concert. Maybe it’s an Australian instrument that their ancient ancestors would play all night when they couldn’t sleep, and start the next war riding kangaroo back swinging bolos.
Yes, it's an Australian indigenous instrument. Though bolos and such weren't usually a tool used by us. Spears and use of a woomera (a spear throwing device) etc were far more common. We didnt ride kangaroos though. Making yidaki (the proper name for a didgeridoo) is a spiritual process (be interested to know which one of our mob taught these guys), and has a whole host of traditions and rules that go with it, as one example: a yidaki should never be touched or played by a woman who is still of 'child bearing age', in public, and never for ceremony or ritual purpose with some believing it will render them infertile. Didgeridoo is a slang/pigeon term created by white settlers, and they're correctly called 'Yidaki' and they're made from the Australian ironwood, or bloodwood trees typically - though other hardwood/gum species are used.
Making a didge has been on my bucket list for a long, long time. Getting hold of a nice length of eucalyptus round my part of the world is the biggest problem. I'd also entertained bamboo at one time, but finding someone willing to let go of a fat girth pole has also been, how to say, difficult. Agave is brilliant! Hmm!!
Awesome job man!! Looks like the wood structure of the agave is alot softer than a hard wood. I made a didgeridoo out of a 5' section of hard maple, marked the wall thickness to 1/4", ripped in half and carved out with a 40grit flap wheel, glued and banded together till solid... I can get an ok drone, but think I need to thin the walls out alittle as it doesn't seem to have "that nice" didgeridoo vibration... it's there ish but not quite... I also think the inside of the mouth piece I shaped, my lips kinda hit the inside walls abit in a spot or two... that could be an issue too.... What kinda profile should the mouth piece be? Perfect circle? Flare out, flare in?
I drill them out to 1 1/8" circle (bigger if the didge is lower than a C), then round the edge off for comfort. If your mouthpiece is too big for the stick (or not perfectly smooth), your lips will smack the edge a 100 time a minute. I've split my lip like that before, lol.
Yes.., as others have said, Nice job. Really nice job. These sounds resonate... inside. With everyone I've talked to about "The Doos" But I'm curious. How were these made by the Indigenous People? Without power tools and modern finishes, especially resins? Any links to traditional Doo making?
the didgeridoo is beginning to look a lot like one of those swiss mountain alpine horns .... i think the next natural evolution of the didge after the epoxy and power tools treatment is to cast didgeridoos out of molten aluminum .... lightweight longlasting and they don't rot
Oh I like your work-stand and the idea with the clamps to lift up the work piece...thinking I need to change up my stand. Great work by the way, I don't have access to Agave here in Muskoka, but I've done cedar and maple straight from my property (split method.)
Beautiful work! A lot of skilled work and I love that sound! Did the old Aboriginals coat the inside of their instruments with something as you did and if so what did they use??
I think the reason he coated the inside of the wood is because agave is very soft and pithy, you want to keep the wood from absorbing moisture from you’re breath and softwoods like this and yucca would act as sponges without some sort of shellac
Hey Brad, thanks for sharing your process man! Super creative and unique! What's that tool you use in 8:12 to work the top end of the bore? Wishing you a happy holidays!
nice video, beautyfull result, but please dont use Epoxy, we did this also years ago, but burning it kind of bushman style and reforcing it just with waterresist woodglue and linseed beewaxmix,it work even fine and more heathy,
@charliebowen5071 if you'd ever work with an agave stalk you'd know these nothing to pin into. In my testing, smashing the mouthpiece off with pins did far more damage than just gluing it on, and the strength was the same either way. 💪
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