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November banjos and a fiddle
This month has been busy in the shop, but for the first time in a while I haven’t had any custom instruments to build, so I’ve had a chance to make some instruments to restock. Banjos 125-128 are shown on the Banjos page, and fiddle #23 is on the Fiddles page. Banjo #129 is the…
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October instruments
At the beginning of October I put the finishing touches on a couple of mandolins that I was building to have in stock. They are now on the Mandolins page. Banjo #124 is my first longneck banjo, and the first with a bracket band. It also has a Whyte Laydie type tone ring so it…
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September instruments
I didn’t post an August update because I didn’t complete any instruments in August this year. I started a guitar-bodied walnut octave mandolin and a cherry A5 type mandolin then, but I only had them about halfway built at the end of the month. I just put the last coat of finish on both of…
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Back in the shop again…..
I got back from my trip Sunday afternoon and just got back into the shop for a bit tonight, but I’ll be back to my normal evening work schedule starting tomorrow. I posted a trip report and pictures again on the Adirondack Forum website, if you’d like to see them please follow the link below.…
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I’ll be away August 19-25
I’m taking my annual vacation this week, bicycling to the Adirondacks, as I have been doing for 10 years now. I will be out of reach of communication during most of my trip but I will reply to emails as soon as possible on my return.
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July instruments
Banjo #117 was a custom ash 12″ with a Whyte Laydie type tone ring and a Dobson heel. #118 was a stock banjo, it can be seen on the Banjos page. My last two projects were in the works at once. Fiddle #22 is a cherry chicken head and is shown on the Fiddles page,…
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June instruments
June was another low-production month since I spent a number of evenings working on the roof instead of in the shop, but now the roof job is done and I am back up to full speed, such as it is. My first June job was a custom 5+1 neck fitted to a very unusual old…
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May banjos
This May was not one of my more productive months in the workshop, but sometimes that’s how it goes. My first project was banjo #113, a custom walnut short scale with a WL/Electric type tone ring. My other completed project was banjo #114, which was a custom curly maple A scale with hickory accents and…
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April instruments
I am very late writing this update, but I can still remember a lot of what happened in April. My first project was banjo #111, which is another walnut C scale and can be seen on the Banjos page. I made two squareneck resonator guitars back in 2014 or so, and the second one…
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March instruments
My first jobs in March were continued from the last part of February. I made a mountain dulcimer (#45) and a banjo (#108) from the gym floor wood, for the customer who brought the wood. The dulcimer is a bit of a departure for me as it is the first I have made with a…