Cejilla is the spanish capo; made traditionaly from the materials-vocubulary of the spanish guitar maker:
Exotic hard wood, peg, string.
I had a little bit of ebony wood with which the children played sometimes, it was an offcut from the fingerboard of my guitar.
First, I cut it to three and glued them on top of each other and then shaped and drilled.
When I put the peg in the wood split. I did say it was an experiment.
The design is inspired one that I found online by a maker named Yusef Kabbani, whom deserves the credit.
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categorized as Craft.
Post and rail
My friend James, whose a second generation ( or more ) forester and wood cutter in Sussex supplied me with the rails and posts of chestnut and oak for a fence as ...
Prototype #2
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Pyrites
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Non-woven #3
Less ambitious than the felt and skin piece that I was planning to make last summer. A piece of Jacob sheep wool. whole fleece. cleaned, carded, seperated the colours and felted. An experiment in ...
Willow, an experiment in landscape manipulation.
I have started my affair with willows in 2004. So captivated I was that we decided to call our son, born in November that year - Willow. There is much to be ...
What is land?
At late, as I was waiting for the news of the Israelis invasion to Gaza, thoughts about occupation came to my mind. What is land? 1. A part of the surface of the earth ...
Sustainable beekeeping… part 01, not complete..
This is the Warré bee hive number 1. I am making these now to sell and spread. a house for the bees. ( no, we do not keep the bees in the lounge...) Read about ...
First Flamenca Blanca finished
It is a rainy day. Anyway it is already dark and I really want these photos in the post so I went ahead and uploaded them. My first guitar, a Flamenca Blanca. It is ...
the fast track
Once the bulk of the work is done every step is a giant step. I felt that this project is coming to an end rapidly. It was out of my hands; is ...