Suzanne’s Psaltery
Thursday, day 26. June 2008Here’s a picture of a custom psaltery that I’m working on. The top is Mahogany, and for the rosette, I inlaid a circle of Musk Burl veneer and drilled holes into it to make a spiral shape. The size of the holes adds up to roughly the same size opening as a regular psaltery’s soundhole.
The […]
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Notching Pins with a Dremel Stylus
Tuesday, day 24. June 2008I just thought I’d give a brief mention to a new tool I tried out today. As you may have already seen on my sister site: A Psimple Psaltery, I use a rotary tool to put notches in the tops of the hitch pins on all my bowed psalteries.
Today I used a new rotary tool […]
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Custom Tuning Wrenches
Wednesday, day 18. June 2008I’ve decided to launch a new sub-domain of the Phantasy Psalteries website, entitled: Archimedes’ Workshop. Over the past several months, I’ve been making custom tuning wrenches just for fun, and now I feel it’s time to give them their own official home. (Two examples are shown in the picture on the left.) You can read […]
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Coral Snake Binding
Tuesday, day 10. June 2008Recently I’ve been working on a psaltery with a completely new style of binding. Instead of being made of one solid piece of wood, I used several different types and formed a pattern.
Oddly enough, the inspiration for this came from seeing the patterns in snakes. I think I was trying to visualize how Snakewood would […]
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Performax 16-32 Drum Sander
Monday, day 2. June 2008I’ve finally got one of my most sought-after stationary power tools: a drum sander. This sander has already sped up many laborious tasks in the first week I’ve used it.
To the left you can see an example of its work: a multi-piece striped bowed psaltery back. (This is going to be another one of the […]
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