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    My good friend Tim got Ukulele fever a fewyears back and gave it to me.  It almost seems like model building after so many guitars.  Trouboudor Jim Hancock will soon take delivery of an 8 string harp uke made from mahagony and sitka, and soon after that there will be an all-koa flying V and a mahagony explorer available.
    



 
 

    I have always wanted to build a Dyer style Harp Guitar. I bought the plans and immediately started making changes.  I gave it a 14 fret neck, a cutaway, and changed the body shape.  The harp peghead seemed large and heavy to me, so I reversed the order of the harp strings and came up with a smaller peghead that uses regular tuners instead of banjo machines.  I will finish building it this winter and it may be available in the spring.

 
 
 
 Austin musician Tom Delaney  couldn't switch fast enough from his mandolin  to bouzouki, so we made a doubleneck from maple and sitka.

 
 
 
A carved fretless electric, with a Warwick inspired curved back for the mature player's physique, Rio Grande pickups

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