Karakuri

Old school robots. Absolutely amazing.

Karakuri from Matthew Allard on Vimeo.

Igil up date number 2

Chek it out! almost ready for her strings.

The photos are pretty shity I'm no great photographer but there are some cool new things to look at.

This is the bowl all hollowed out its alot deeper than the plans called for but with all these knots and stuff you can see why I tried to keep as much of it as possible.

This is a profile of the crow I think it looks good. I really do wish that I had better wood to work with. the poplar i found turned out to be really soft and pitted.
 Well thats the update next il be throwing some music parts on it to see if it works. If it works I will probably build a whole new one from a nice carving hard wood.

Igil up date

 A little up date on my on going Igil project. I figured it was a good time to up date since some nasty stuff happened when i was working  on it (but i will save that until the end). Well the project has come a long way since the last post. I have started scooping out the bowl it is way deeper than the plans said it should be but I'm hoping that it will just give it a deeper louder sound. I guess that shows what I know about instrument. :) so far i am still sticking to hand tools except for the drill but thats because i have never seen a hand drill except for in a museum.

these are some close ups of the carvings on the top. I think its turning out.

this is the sound board drilled out. this also were my mega mistake happened. 

As i was drilling out the big hole i took a big chunk out of the back. It was probably a combination of a dull drill bit and pushing to hard. but there is nothing we can do about it now. I have started to do some roughs and figure out what I can do to fix this lil mistake.