Tongue Drum
40oz Aug 01, 2015
I had a little bit of scrap wood left over from my diploma frame project so i decided to make a tongue drum for my daughter.
(Sorry I didn't document the first & last part of the build.)
I'm undecided on what finish i'm going to use and i may eventually round over the corners but for now i'm calling this project done.
The box is Hard Maple, Mitered.
The fingerboard is Birdseye Maple,
The soundboard is Walnut.
I didn't have a wide enough piece of Walnut so i made up the difference with Maple & Purple Heart strips.
The underside of the boards are Dado'ed for a snug fit.
Meow?
Gluing up the Purple Heart Splines.
Flush sanded.
Laying out exactly where to glue the templates.
I am tuning this box to a pentatonic scale so i figured i would divide the fingerboard in 5ths to give one template 3/5th's & the other 2/5th's.
Cutting out the tongues with a jigsaw. It was a major PITA and took a long time.
tons of sanding to do.
and a dry fit.
Here i am tying to tune it but my daughter intervened & stole the show.
eventually, I hogged out most of the material with forstner bits & cleaned it all out with a router attachment on a Dremel tool.
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This seems like the sort of thing a child would cherish forever.
I agree with @punkmade. This turned out great!
Great job. where did you get the pattern? It looks like one Steve Carmichael has on his channel. I used one of the pages he posted to figure out the dimensions on my purple heart drum.