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My first project for LJ! I made this harp for my wife. It is made from quilted maple and has a spruce sounding board. Although you can buy it in kit form, I built it from scratch using blueprints I purchased from a company in Oregon. Here is a link to their website...

Blue Haze Cigar Box Ukulele #5. Black Hardware, nickel frets, maple neck with bubinga 'ears'. Romeo and Julieta 'Churchill' size box. 17" 'concert' size scale. Black nylon strings. Peizo pickup embedded in neck under lexan/stainless steel bridge/saddle. Plays and sounds pretty good...

Blue Haze Cigar Box Ukulele #6. Last one for a while I promise, but I just had to show off this black velvet box! It's just a wonderful uke with the maple neck with cherry ears, chrome tuners and stainless sound-hole trim (bar-sink strainers!!) and nickel frets. Lexan/stainless steel saddle...

I have not spending as much as time I should in my shop this winter, because I have been busy fishing… Well, this is what I really have to do, (Been doing this for more than 5 years now) woodworking gift for my kids. this was really a fun project, especially to see how it sounds and how it...

This didgeridoo was made especially for the exposition "Vormgevers in Hout" at Fort bij Vechten, last weekend (see: http://www.vormgeversinhout.nl/index.html ) This exposition shows the work of more than 50 craftsmen, chairbuilders, carpenters, greenwood workers and artists… My contribution is...

This is the first Christmas present of the year made as a joint gift for my 2 sons (4 and 6 years old). The sides are made from cherry and the top is walnut. After getting it all glued up I was disappointed in the dull sound of it until I picked it up and found that the sound was deadened by the...

In the mid 1970's I decided I wanted to try building a guitar as I already played a banjo. There was no kit available and no Internet to learn from. The only option was to buy a book and build from it. So that was it, no plans, just some brief drawings and a lot of words. I was fortunate to have...

Music Instrument: hammer dulcimer Case: walnut Soundboard: quarter sawn spruce Dimensions: width 38" (front), 24" (back) height 18.5" depth 3/25" Soundboard painted by a neighbor, J. Stinger.

I built this for a friend/co-worker of my wife who wanted to give it as a gift to her husband. She wanted a celtic inscription inside, so I went with an overall celtic knot theme. The overlay on the soundboard may deaden the sound a bit, but It's not so bad I wouldn't do it again. I bought some...

This is just a simple post on one approach to making simple bows for musical instruments that don't require a more aesthetic solutions. The photos are of prototypes made from some poplar scrap. Of course, walnut, mahogany, pine or some other wood could be used, depending on preference and...