Overview of the first 7 days
Day 1 and 2: Drawing of plans starting from a beautiful red sitar of Tine, specially built for her by Hari Chand.
Day 3: Selecting and dividing the wood. Some wood was bought a few years earlier in Puurs (CMB). One large piece of walnut, several pieces of Honduras mahogany and two pieces of African mahogany. + Drawing of rough pieces for body and neck.
Day 4: Rough sawing and glueing of the body. Completely made out of walnut. One back and one front are glued.
Day 5 : Further glueing of the body pieces from walnut. Another back and two fronts now ready and glued. One more night of drying…
Day 6 : Drawing, sawing and gluing of the top of the neck. Two pieces made out of mahogany and one out of walnut.
Day 7 : Drawing, sawing and glueing of the heads. All three are made out of mahogany. One will also get a top in walnut. + Drawing and sawing of the neck. Two pieces of African mahogany sawn at an angle, ready for gluing on the heads. The third piece, which was a bit too thin, has been made thicker at the back with surplus walnut.
Here the necks’ bottoms in African mahogany.
New Beginning
A new piece of creation is born… Rarara, what will it be ?? Have a guess …?
Shipment Arrived
During my last trip to India, I collected some sitar bodies and the latest model sitar fiber cases.
Now they finally arrived…
Corsica
l’ Ile de Beauté. Het paradijs op aarde bestaat echt, … het noemt Corsica … Enjoy the water. So pure, so fresh and wild. And more… At night, in the cosy tent. En nu terug thuis. Back to work and,… the sitars..?
Paharganj, 1974…
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Snow
Look how beautiful the early morning can be…
La Gauchée
Is “sitar” masculine or feminine? Paul came to collect his sitar. It was a left-handed sitar. Made in the Rikhi Ram factory in the late 1960s. It concerned a joint repair. Decoration sobero Bonjour cher Denis… Merci Beaucoup !!