Recent Pictures from the shop

3/23/2015

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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10/31/2024 08:01:44 pm

Great post tthank you

vishwakarma

Here's the place to share ideas & information as well as pictures of what's going on in the shop.

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PAUL LIVINGSTONE -
Great sitarist, composer and sitar teacher.
Student of Pndt.
Ravi Shankar

SITAR FACTORY -
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RUDRA VEENA
Gary Pro's wonderful site dedicated to the wondrous Rudra Veena

KARASEK SOUND -
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PEGHEDS -
A most excellent tuning peg system that looks like a regular peg but actually is a 4:1 planetary gear.

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The reliable source for all things sitar & tabla.