My friend, Josh, and I built him an ar15 out of a parts kit and an aluminum 80% lower. My little micro mill worked fantastically on this job. It still needs to be polished out, but it runs flawlessly.
Took the day off today and set up the wood lathe that’s been sitting around here for the last five months. This thing makes a mess! But I did manage to turn out a simple little wooden mallet.
A little bit different. This is a five string guitar tuned to open G. I managed to use the clear panel of the cigarbox as the soundboard for this guitar. It has a tiger maple neck with a cedar head, … Continue reading
This is about as small as I can feasibly make instruments. This is a cigarbox banjo. The fretboard is maple, and the neck and saddle are buckeye burl. I might opt for a bone nut on this one eventually to … Continue reading
Kris and I finished up a set of beer mugs for a customer today. They turned out pretty good. They’re made from cedar and hold something like 20 ounces of Apple juice.
Here’s a mock up for a set of beer mugs for a customer. It’s still drying, so it’ll get rope or leather bindings around the top and bottom grooves.
Sorry I haven’t been posting lately, I’ve been gearing up for a guitar show here at the end of next month. Here’s a few of what I’ve been working on.
Here’s the beginnings of a turtle shell ukulele. All the wood on this except the dark wood at the tuners is cherry, and the dark wood is cocobolo. It will get a rosewood fretboard and saddle, and a bone nut and bridge when all of the parts get here. Don’t worry, I couldn’t hurt a turtle. This shell came from an online taxidermy seller that gave me his word that the turtle was already gone by the time he got the shell.
Today I built a cigar box ukulele for a friend of mine to take with him when he heads off to New York in a few weeks. The neck is maple, the nut and bridge are bone, and the fretboard … Continue reading
It’s not exactly how I wanted it, but I didn’t have much wood to work with.
