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3/23/2015

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These are a few pictures of a Personal Tambura I was building last September. The lovely straight grain showed quite nicely the more I smoothed her. Quarter-sawn cedar at it's best.

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carving the head on a Personal Tambura
hiding a seam by making it more obvious...shows the nice 'quarter-sawn' grain too!
more beautiful grain and getting ready to carve the tail-piece
this is the style of tail-piece carving I learned from Kartar Chand
all carved and soundholes inlaid, now ready for finish work
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    vishwakarma


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