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This violin is typical of my designs except that this one has a flat back. The wooden pin that the tailpiece fastens to, allows you to adjust the bridge tension pressing on the face. (this is typical of early bowed instruments) A flying brace and a carbon tone ring remove the string tension from the body of the instrument, allowing the top to move freely. The body is Western Red cedar and Blackwood and the neck is Mahogany with an Ebony fingerboard.

The neck on this guitar is carved from the same piece as the body, so there is no join. This concept is tonally superior to bolted or glued on necks, but because the instruments have to be hand carved, only a few companies like Jackson Guitars have ever made them. This one is made from a plain quarter sawn piece of Tasmanian Eucalypt.

This is an original instrument that was designed for my own playing. I call it a talamar. It combines elements of the guitar and the Indian vina. It has a scalloped fingerboard. (This means removing wood between the frets so that your fingers don't touch the wood.) If you look closely you can see that one of the strings doesn't go over the fingerboard but passes through a pin at the 12th fret. This is typical of Indian instruments. recording
This is one of the 35 acoustic guitars I have made. The most interesting feature aside from the look is that the neck joins the body at the 17th fret. My nylon string guitars have smaller bodies but the same basic design. I found that cutaway guitars lacked playability up the neck because of no thumb access. This guitar has the same thumb access as a strat.

This was my fist solid body design. I built 4 including a bass. It is very balanced and comfortable to play. The body is one piece of Tas Eucalypt. The top veneer is Queensland Walnut.

This nouveaux style guitar with marquetry soundholes was made around 1980. I had forgotten it until someone gave me this photo.
I called this a guitar-harp because it has the same acoustic sound as a classical guitar. I designed this because I was too lazy to learn a proper harp. A standard upright harp is tuned in the opposite direction to the guitar. This one goes in the same direction as a guitar. The large picture shows the angle that you would see the harp from while playing it on your lap. The left hand plays the bass strings which hadn't arrived when I took the picture.
I have made  a number of solid body violins. This one has five stings tuned from viola C to violin E. I found that the limitation of any solid body bowed instrument is that the strings are slower to respond to the bow. They are great for rock music, but I eventually went back an acoustic fitted with my own sound post pickup to get the speed that I wanted.