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The concept behind this instrument was to arrange guitar parts for the electric octave mandolin and be able to play classic rock and hard rock with it as a possible guitar alternative.

The most common question about these relatively uncommon instruments has to be: Are thumb pianos anything like real pianos?

For my first acoustic mandolin project, I decided to build a relatively ambitious and untraditional design...

This project is a sequel to my first mandolin. Much like a movie sequel, I won’t need to use as much time on character development since you'll already be familiar with the main characters...

My electric mandolin project started out as a much more complicated travel/ silent electric mandolin with a built in preamp and a compact speaker/ amplifier combo...

...the hovercrafts really caught my attention. Something about the odd way hovercrafts slide across the ground like everything is covered in ice caused dreams of such a machine for me to pilot.

2-stroke powered scooters have become very popular.Unfortunately, I’m not the type that would just buy a commercially available scooter and be happy about it: I would have to build my own.

This flute design is a common one on the net, and for good reason. Not only is it simple to build, it’s also relatively simple to learn and rewarding to play.