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I am very interested in folk music, particularly the banjo. You can find my musings and some tunes on my:

I have started building my second gourd banjo from scratch. I will make the whole thing myself. I am doing something different this time and posting the writeup as I go. This is a bit gutsy since I never know where my projects are going to end up. But I thought I would give it a try. I reserve the right to go back to any of these pages and rewrite history (should that become necessary). For now, you can monitor my progress on my

I have finished building my first banjo from scratch. I made the whole thing myself. It is a gourd banjo. I wrote up the entire adventure on my:

If you want to see how I went about building a Goldtone resonator banjo from a kit, you can find the complete writeup on my:

I have also built a Bob Flesher Minstrel Banjo kit. You can see the whole story of its construction on my

I have been painting and drawing all of my life. To see some of my art work, please go to:

I am also interested in the use and meaning of the I Ching, which is the ancient Chinese Book of Changes. I have written up an analysis of the probabilities inherent in the choosing of a hexagram. This is on my page called:

I have a musical instrument that I cannot identify. (Update: I now know what this thing is.)