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UKULELES
This is a soprano ukulele I built for one of my daughter's soccer playing team-mates. The neck is Spanish cedar, the top is yellow cedar, the back and sides are padauk. Bridge and fingerboard are ebony, and the peg-head is padauk. The side construction was a new thing for me which I learned from Jim Ham, a contra-bass builder in Victoria, BC: I laminated a piece of 0.9 mm padauk and a piece of 0.9 mm yellow cedar together with silk between the laminations (initially, the padauk didn't want to bend into ukulele sides - the bends were too sharp for the brittle piece I had). It bent like a dream, shows no signs of lamination and now and has those desirable qualities of lightness and stiffness that instrument makers strive to create.
BANJOS
This maple frailing banjo has a maple neck and ebony fingerboard with pearl inlay, geared Planet pegs and a Kershner tailpiece. The plastic head could be replaced by a skin head for more of that 'ol' timey' sound.
BODHRANS
This 16" diameter bodhran is made of local cherry and white oak. The tipper (drumstick) shown here is of big-leaf maple. This drum is seriously loud! It can be made of any number of woods. The drum head is of goatskin.