I’m in the process of revamping my website a bit, as I get time. I’m planning on adding more options, and also editing some areas for clarity and brevity. Hopefully the navigation – particularly on the Woods and Materials page, will be much cleaner and easier to use.

I’ve got several new changes to the bowed psaltery that I would also like to roll out along with the revised website. For the psaltery, some changes are cosmetic, but a lot of them are also practical and acoustical improvements. (Such as Delignit laminated pinblocks.)

Anyhow, I hope to have the new site up by the start of 2008, or thereabouts. For now, one (relatively minor) addition can be see in the attached photo: Bearclaw Sitka Spruce. Acoustically, it is identical to regular spruce, but it has a figured top that looks as if a bear has dug its claws into the wood.