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A Marimba I built last year - took me a bit over half a year to complete. 61 keys made of Padauk, all hand-tuned, on a frame of Red Oak and Walnut (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by bitsplease@lemmy.ml to c/diy

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Lemmy doesn't seem to have any popular woodworking subreddits, so I thought I'd post here. Just deleted my reddit account and want to contribute some content here!

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[–] surrendertogravity 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Thanks for all the great details and the link! I imagine tuning must be a bit nerve wracking and involve lots of constant testing, since carving the wood down is pretty irreversible.

[–] bitsplease@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah it was definetely a bit stressful at times, thankfully you can only ever screw up one key at a time though! And there's a bit of correction to be done by trimming the edges off the key