When you think you have limited resource for woodworking, and don’t have any old bachi to recycle… I now present to you an alternative method to make a bachi – Paper mache!! That is, by creating 3D objects by gluing many layers of paper.
Isn’t it strange that shumoku are not widely available like bachi does?
Here are two DIY bachi I made after my first one.
This post might be less positive sounding. Thanks Lisa for soothing some fire out of me. But I feel I must explain the matter about “pre-cut kit”, which has been troubling me since the beginning of DIY Taiko.