Current available drum inventory ranges from 6" x 6" log drums to 34" x 18" Pow Wow size. Prices range from $40 to $500. Also I make hand drums of buffalo rawhide strecthed on steel rings. These also make a great canvas for paintings. Prices range from $30 $120.I was cutting firewood last X-mas and came across a hollow tree. I knew I could make drums from it. Hence it began.My first comissioned drum. It is also my first attempt at making a drum from something other than a log. The sound is unbelievable. It is suspended in a steel horse head stand. It is still under construction but currently for sale for $2500.Painted drums are available and done on comission. Or you can have your favorite artist paint yours for you.Wolves by Jim Heilman.This is made from buffalo rawhide stretched on a steel ring. They double as warshields and drums. The painting is by Mitzi Nelson. Available for $375.
Typical tomahawk design. Prices range from $125 to $350. I use a variety of head designs, but each that I make is a one of kind. This one is not available.Typical tomahawk design. Prices range from $125 to $350. I use a variety of head designs, but each that I make is a one of kind. This one is not available.Typical tomahawk design. Prices range from $125 to $350. I use a variety of head designs, but each that I make is a one of kind. This one is not available.Typical tomahawk design. Prices range from $125 to $350. I use a variety of head designs, but each that I make is a one of kind. This one is not available.Typical tomahawk design. Prices range from $125 to $350. I use a variety of head designs, but each that I make is a one of kind. This one is not available.Typical tomahawk design. I use a variety of head designs, but each that I make is a one of kind. This one is available for $300. It has a hickory handle, replica forged head, buffalo hump hair below the head, wrapped in black angus tail, trailed with raven feathers and bufffalo teeth rattles.I use a variety of head designs, but each that I make is a one of kind. This one is available for $250. It has a hickory handle wrapped in buffalo tail, replica forged head. with buffalo hump hair wrapped beneath it, with trade style bells and trailed wild turkey feathers.
Apache style ceremonial war mask attached to buffalo rawhide war shield. Available for $500.This my first 1/2 buffalo face mount attached to a shield made from the same animal's hide with the tail attached and adorned with wild turkey feathers. It is available for $950. This is my first buffalo product warshield. It is painted to depict the pony solider design painted on a 1/2 buffalo skull. It is adorned with braided buffalo hair, trade bells, wild turkey feathers, buffalo hair and buckskin. It is available for $600.This is my second attempt in creating sculptures utilizing the face of a buffalo. As with my steel and all mediums I work with, I am self taught. I've never even seem this done. Just decided to do it and with the advice of a drunken Taxidermist down the road, did it. It is available for $1,400.This is my second attempt in creating sculptures utilizing the face of a buffalo. As with my steel and all mediums I work with, I am self taught. I've never even seem this done. Just decided to do it and with the advice of a drunken Taxidermist down the road, did it. It is available for $1,400.
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Two years ago I embarked on an adventure to expand my artistic desires.  I have always looked to the art of the Americans Indians for my inspiration to create steel art. Continuing in that tradition, I find myself seeking more realism in my work. Henceforth I am working and learning to create from the materials provided by nature. My work that I display on this page represents the start of that journey. It is proving to be an enlightening and humbling experience. 
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This is but a small sample of the 120 some drums I have hand created in the past year. Each is a product of the materials I find in Paradise Valley Montana. From the  bottomlands of the Yellowstone River, I harvest dead fall cottonwood trees to shape the log rounds. Each log is hand selected. It's own unique character will lend to the voice and beauty of the drum to be brought to life. The rawhide covers, I produce from the hides of the deer, elk, antelope and the mighty buffalo that live in this country. Mine is a effort  to match the realistic character of what would have been created by one living off the land in a time now past.
I make my trade period replica tomahawks as a authentic representation of those traded to and decorated by the American Indians of the 1800's. The heads are welded and hammered steel. They are designed to create a  forged steel appearance. The handles I carve from hardwoods such as hickory, ash and oak.  I burn the wood to add an authentic , darkened flavor. Next I treat each handle with linseed oil or wax. I adorn each differently with animal parts, just as I would have done, had I lived in a time where such weapons were commonplace.
I have always been interested in the lifestyle and art of the American Indians. More so than by any other aspect of the lifestyle, the weapons, they were able to manufacture from what was available in nature, still amaze me. The war shields, to me, are especially interesting. Not just for the effectiveness of the design, but for the power of the medicine. I am still learning and working to achieve the true design as I believe  existed. For now I dry the hide of the buffalo around a steel ring to give it the strength I need it to have. So as a result the hide dries tight enough to produce drums with an incredible earthy and soothing tone. This shield design has found another use as a canvas for paintings, along with my original desire to use them for mounting the skulls of buffalo and other animals.