Official Luthiers Forum!

Great photos Oliver! Very cool the way they transition from gourd to wood. And you have to like the intricate bracing. Thanks.

Danny

This might be of some interest to you:

http://teental.free.fr/sitar/?p=311 it's a jazz sitar, quite cool.

I've been wanting to either make a sitar, likely a small scale one for the sake of portability, or convert an old clunker archtop I've got into a Mohan-veena. For those who don't know what that is, it's essentially an archtop guitar fitted with sympathetic strings and jawari bridges, like this: http://marchahead.co.in/qimage/178/Q20090108.png