The progress reports

Each week (hopefully) we update this page with new photos of instruments in progress. The updates are usually made on Monday.

We hope that you enjoy seeing the progress on your instrument and those of others who have them on order.

Week ending December 16, 2002

I'm still experimenting with a different graphic format for the pictures. If you have any problems with them, please let me know.

LB4: trimming off the waste above the head block.

VG36: Um, that's on a need-to-know basis, ma'am.

VG37: drilling for the shaft and bearings

VG37: gluing in the strap button blocks

VG39: gluing in the top braces

VG39: drilling for the shaft and bearings

VG40: the first side in the form

VG40: the back linings and braces are in, and the back is sitting at right.

VG40: gluing on the back

VG38: the wood has been resawn and is waiting to be planed and sanded to thickness

"The Monk": the strings are on, and it's being adjusted

Justin at the bandsaw, cutting out a peghead

Pegheads for VG37, 38, 39,. 40, and 41.

Wheels for the same instruments, plus EG1.

Grandchamp: the new wheel, ready for finish

Justin's electronics package on the bench for final testing. It only took about a day to find and solve the problems.

4 sets of marudai mirrors and bases being glued up

See last week for more pictures. I haven't written the new page yet, so you still have to page back through. Write me email and complain gently so I remember to do it, OK? The squeeky wheel gets the grease, or so they say...

Please contact us if you have comments or questions about this page or other pages on this site.

Alden and Cali Hackmann
Olympic Musical Instruments

Beati illi qui in circulum circumeunt, fient enim magnae rotae.

© Copyright 2000, 2005, Olympic Musical Instruments.
Please ask for permission to use material from this site. Thank you.