Sun, 06 Aug 2006
As you know if you’ve been reading this blog (And why wouldn’t you be reading such an interesting and wildly popular blog such as this one?) I’ve been having some, shall we say, motivation problems when it comes to working in the shop. Well I’ve really been trying to spend more time in the shop and getting my lutherie skill set back up to par. And today was a really good day. First of all, the big project that needs to get done A.S.A.P. is a purpleheart dulcimer that will most likely be going to Acoustic Expressions in San Diego. I’m going to be in San Diego for a couple of days at the end of the month so I want to get this done so I can bring it down to Carol and Mark at the store.
I also put the back and top on the walnut dulcimer that I’m building to put on Ebay. I want to try
Ebay as a sales outlet for my instruments to see what the response is. I built the fretboard today as well.
So I have two dulcimers in progress, The OM style guitar I’m building for myself, and my mandolin all in
various stages of fabrication.
That’s too much stuff! AND I also have those Tennessee Music Boxes to ship out. I’ve got the first coat of shellac on them as a color coat. I’ll put one more coat of shellac on them and then I’ll start laying on coats of lacquer. So those will appear on Ebay pretty soon as well.
The Tennessee Music Boxes are looking pretty good. I can’t wait to hear how they sound.
Then I want to make one more dulcimer out of some wood from a Liquid Amber tree. The wood is just amazing
looking. 
The photo doesn’t do justice to the colors in the wood. It will be an incredible looking instrument. So yeah, It’s been a busy day in the shop. It feels great to get so much work done and to feel comfortable doing it. I find that I have a real high level of comfort in the shop when I’m building dulcimers because I’ve built so many of them. That comfort level just isn’t there with guitars yet. But once this batch of instruments is out the door and I’ve got an influx of cash from selling them I’m going to dive into another guitar (perhaps even two more). Of course, I have to finish my guitar first. I’ve got the neck to body joint done and I just finished building a jig to taper a fingerboard to the proper width. So it looks like I’m done building jigs for the moment and can focus on building instruments. But I still have to finish the projects that will produce cash before I can go back to working on my guitar. Yeah, that’s some good inspiration to get some work done. I have to help pay the bills AND THEN I can work on my personal instrument. Hmm, maybe I’ll go back out there after dinner.
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