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Reclaimers' Stick Fiddle

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This is a fretted "folk fiddle" from less than $5 worth of materials. We are building an orchestra made up of these instruments...
Here's a recording...
www.cyberferal.com/UncleBob/sounds/Death%20is%20Always%20There.mp3
Here's a short video of goings on at the workshop.

Bow Dims.pdf(595x842) 16 KB

Bridge Dims.pdf(612x792) 13 KB

Fiddle 320 FretBoardTemplate.pdf(595x842) 17 KB

Spine Dims.pdf(595x842) 14 KB

Stick Fiddle Model.pdf(595x842) 169 KB

Tuner Dims.pdf(595x842) 38 KB

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Step 1Materials

The main spine is 19 x 25 hardwood (3/4 x 1")

Here are the rest of the bits.

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5 comments

Feb 6, 2011. 12:49 AMdigital159 says:

What did you use to make the bow?

Feb 6, 2011. 2:41 AMReclaimers (author) says:

The wood is pine, the string is light fishing line. You still need standard rosin. Lots of different materials will work for the string, let me know if you find something good.

Charles.

Feb 6, 2011. 3:37 AMdigital159 says:

Thanks for the quick response. I am going to try and find some fishing line and toxin tomorrow I already have alot of wood lying around so I will try and make this asap and let you know how it goes.
Andrew.

Jun 1, 2010. 4:58 PMReclaimers (author) says:

I understand the actual instructions are a bit thin on the ground. If anyone wants to help with some useful text. Please feel free to post or get in touch.