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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfIZnqvco4U Here is the best from the test clips taken last month of the FIFTH VERSION of the Ragmakamtar. As is obvious, this version is just a prototype, not intending to look polished... made in a very short time (3 weeks) and the back is made of papiermache. This ...

ok... making some serious progress, and it looks like I can get the oud strings on to this quick prototype in a few days. I got a rough neck cut, and fitted on with a skrew. I am going to glue it very very lightly with OBG and the skrew. I will need to take the neck off again for transporting it bac...

Made some real progress with the soundboard today. With super inadequate tools I managed to get together $1 worth of common cedar from the local lumber yard, into what seems a decent soundboard. I only have a circular hand saw which I rigged up like a table was. The cedar boards are 12 cm wide and m...

Very enlighting Edward! I like seeing ideas come to light. Failures are all but a way to rethink out the process at hand. The light and dark contrast will work very well for the whole instrument in general. Thxs Hugh Hey Hugh Brother! Great to hear from you. Yes, U know very well what I am going th...

The papier mache back is now finished, but it needs to sit and dry --- (by the end of the day today sitting in the sun it is now ROCK hard.... perhaps I made it actually too thick... next time I will go a bit lighter - it can be misleading because it does not get really HARD until it has been drying...

I got, with the wood ribs, pretty far.... and I probably would have pulled it off with the wood if I have planned it out more carefully - - - but the amount of compensation I was beginning to need was starting to get extreme, and finally it was impossible. . . . so I abandoned the wood ribs. Then I ...

Thanks Guys... I guess when it comes to design there is more going on here than it is possible to document with text and fotos - - this is where experience and trail and error come in---- it all then adds up to an intuitive sense. But more concretely the main challenges I have am facing with design ...