I said I would get it finished, and I did! This is an instrument that I made from a violin making book by Ed Heron-Allen. I can’t play a violin, but it has the same tuning as the F5 mandolins I make. I asked my daughter to play a couple of little melodies, and I [...]

I am in between making guitars at the moment, so as we are on Easter holidays, I remembered I had been carting around this partly made violin for a lot of years. I got stuck into it and added the purfling, joined the neck to the body, and made the fingerboard. I am doing the [...]

The resonator cone hole!

Friends have asked me why I picked this particular photo for my blog page. Well, I took it myself with one hand, and it had a piece of wood in it, relating to instrument making, but unbeknown to me, the instrument part was excised, and there you have it.