Here’s a couple of pictures of a bowed psaltery that I just recently completed. The top is african mahogany with a padauk laser-cut rosette. The binding and bridge are made from cocobolo, which I chose from the darkest stuff I had on hand.
The back and sides are padauk, which I think both complement and contrast [...]

As you may have seen in a previous post, I had made a duo of tuning wrenches: one of olive, the other of katalox. Well, here’s a picture of two wrenches that could very well be considered their little brothers. They are made of the same woods, in roughly the same style, only this time [...]

Here’s a couple of photos of a custom bowed psaltery that I’ve just recently completed. You can see from the back that this is the same psaltery that I had written about earlier regarding the linseed oil finish. The back is made of Canarywood with Bloodwood binding.
For the soundboard, Sitka Spruce was used, along with [...]

Here’s a couple of custom tuning wrenches that I’m working on. The one on the left is made of Katalox, with Kingwood endcaps, while the one on the right is Olivewood, with Lacewood endcaps.
The wrenches are actually for an pair of autoharps, though the pins are the same. The style is a T-wrench, with an [...]

Here’s a couple of pictures of a custom bowed psaltery that I’m currently working on. As you can see, the photos were taken at an intermediate time: after I had routed the ledge for the binding, but before I had actually cut and installed the purpleheart binding. As a result, you can get a peek [...]

Here’s a couple of pictures of a custom psaltery that I recently completed. As you can see it’s very dark. About the only time I can remember a darker colored bowed psaltery was the one made of Wenge, but even that had curly maple binding, so this may be the darkest colored one yet.
The top [...]