I took this picture right after buffing out the back of a Cocobolo bowed psaltery I am working on. As you can see from the reflection, the light bulb is a Sylvania. 
Monthly Archives: February 2008
High-Gloss Psaltery
February 28, 2008 – 10:37 pm
Sick as a dog
February 21, 2008 – 12:27 pm
Well, I’ve been sick with either the flu, or a really bad cold for most of this week. Consequently, I haven’t been able to finish any psalteries lately, but there are plenty of them on the horizon.
For now, since I am mostly bedridden, (or sometimes “office-chair-ridden”), I decided to make a little slideshow to promote all the great stuff that is available in the Treasure Trove. In case you missed it on my homepage, here it is:
Music: Kevin MacLeod
Another Safari
February 13, 2008 – 1:03 pm
A while back I had a few psalteries for sale that I had called “Safari” because of their somewhat wild looks. Here’s another addition to that collection.
As you can see from the picture, it is made of beautiful Zebrawood. The sides are also solid Zebrawood, versus the veneered sides on my previous psalteries.
Note also the striking Bloodwood binding.
A Little Baby…
February 11, 2008 – 4:47 pm
Here’s my newest toy: it’s a little baby 4″ table saw. (With a tube of ChapStick to show the size.)
I got this small saw to help me cut the bindings for all of my bowed psalteries. A full sized tablesaw seemed too big and wasteful, and a bandsaw still gave me fairly rough cross-cuts.
So now, this little saw fills that gap in nicely. It can easily cut the miters for the binding, and still leaves a smooth, finished cut. Best of all, it doesn’t take up very much shop space. 
How ’bout Blue?
February 8, 2008 – 9:13 pm
Well, maybe I get bored easily, but I always like to try new things. Here you see a Quilted Maple back of a psaltery that has been tinted blue. I think this one will definitely carry the “Atlantis” name-badge.
I’m not too big of a fan of the artificial look, but it was an interesting exercise. The sides and Spruce top are colored blue also. And plain Sitka Spruce still looks plain, it’s just bluer.
It was a pain to mask off the Curly Maple binding so that there would still be a bright, clean white binding to frame the “ocean” of wood.