A Look Into the Workshop
Welcome to my Mandonator™ workshop! Step into my shop for a few minutes to see different stages of a Mandonator™ under construction! The links below take you to pages with photos and details from the construction of different custom instruments that I've built or am currently building.
4 strings; walnut body with rosewood binding; ovangkol fingerboard; design inlays on fingerboard and headstock; COMPLETED
4 strings; mahogany body with ebony binding; no cutaway; two round sound holes; banjo-style headstock and tuners; COMPLETED
4 strings; mahogany body with rosewood binding; snakehead headstock; COMPLETED
5 strings; bubinga body with curly maple binding; curvy, paddle shape headstock; COMPLETED
Experimental 5-string baritone; rosewood body with ebony binding
5 strings; monkeypod body with rosewood binding; round sound hole; fanned frets
4 strings; palo escrito rosewood body with camitillo rosewood binding; no cutaway; round sound holes; tung oil finish
I've nick-named this the "stealth" Mandonator™: 5 strings; wenge body with ebony binding and bloodwood purfling; ebony veneer headstock; ebony saddle and nut; all black hardware.
4 strings; canarywood body, binding, and neck; snakehead headstock with ebony veneer; black coverplate
Not actually a Mandonator™, but an experimental resonator instrument with 6 strings, tuned like a guitar with a short scale; from low to high, it will be: A, D, G, C, E, A.