I’ve made the Dou, the Sao, the Tenjin, the tuning pegs, the Dokake, (not all myself ’cause I got help from Pa for the critical parts) waterproofed it, put on skins, yadayadayada and it’s all been a fun since April 3rd (except the Sao-rod connecting ’cause that was frustrating getting it to fit snugly) when […]
Archive for July, 2006
Alright! I’m on the home stretch of the Shamisen project! I made the Sawari to add the buzzing effect and now I can put it in.
I sure hope this works ’cause if this fails, I’ll still have a shamisen but I’ll have a hole in the neck.
So, I was looking for a pattern for the Dokake. Man, this was the mentally hardest part of the whole project. How could that be hard? Well, because I was going into a fabric store!!!
This was a challenge! I first was at the silks. They looked pretty good, felt nice. Only problem is that the […]
Yoohoo! Another lucky person has donated once again to the Kyle Abbott’s Web Pit Stop Foundation! Congratulations and thank you very much Dan!
Now, everybody reading this, I encourage you to follow suit. It’s good for you and will make you feel special!
Ok, all of the woodworking and skin stetching is (hopefully) done. . . Oh, besides the Azuma Sawari. I still have to put that in.
Besides that, now I’m just putting the pretty stuff. I,e, the Dokake, the mat thingy and tailpiece where the strings attach too.
Since Pa is good at making knots, he helped/made […]