annetteswoodworking

Installing butt inlay and mitered purfling and binding to the top channel of my classical guitar. Working at Brian Burns shop in Fort Bragg, California.

Instrument currently on the bench: dobro resonator guitar.

Shawl pins by Annette Truong. Ebony, rosewood, hickory, cedar, plum, and lemon wood.

Finished the 1700 Boston Harp!

Working on some redwood carving. Assign for above my husband's espresso machine.

Working on the harp: neck and post cut out, som lamination and shaping.

Getting started on my next luthier project: a harp! This is a replica of the 1700 "Boston harp". Shown here: the spruce sound board and teak back to the sound box.

30 sound holes for psalteries drilled today.

Today I got the chamfing done on my psaltery. This is the beveled edge. I also drilled the peg holes and worked on the two bridges.

Attaching the top on the psaltery. Shaving down the binding.

Getting the back binding on my hog nosed psaltery.

Progress on the psaltery: top and back plates thicknessed and cut to shape. Red zebra wood & maple.The carved sound hole here is my luthier instructor's work (Ron Cook), I am using as a pattern to make my own. By Annette Truong

Finally finished my first ukulele! Red zebra wood and maple neck, rosette, and binding, ebony fretboard.

Working on the spline joins and laminating I learned at Timothy Lydgate's box making class.

Took a box making class on the weekend with Timothy Lydgate, whose sample work is shown here. (Cabrillo college, Aptos, CA) Next weekend I hope to make a box similar to one of these.

Using up the scraps in the workshop making these wooden dragonfly shawl pins.