What other things do you guys make?

[Bryan Bear]

Arnt, I used to shoot as a boy and secretly want to make a bow now that I have discovered woodwork. But. . . I don't need another hobby right now and that would actually be two new hobbies (bow making and shooting). I'd love to see some of your work.

[Arnt Rian]

Hi Bryan, guitar building is both a hobby and work for me, as I mostly build commissions, with the usual deadlines, periods of grunt work, occasional difficult customer etc. Building bows is purely a fun hobby that I've enjoyed on and off since I was little, so I've never really bothered to make fancy, advanced or very pretty bows. Not sure I would want to show pictures of most of them, even if I had any... They are mostly primitive self bows made from various local woods, but I have experimented a bit with different profiles, lengths and designs, that is big part of the fun for me.

A few years back I manged to obtain a few staves of osage orange from the US, here's a picture taken during the tillering process of one I made this summer. This is one FAST recurve!

[Bryan Bear]

Lovely! Do you make your own arrows from all that spruce you have hanging around your neck of the woods? I tell myself that I wouldn't make a bunch of bows or go overboard but I know I wouldn't be able to stop myself. Hopefully I will retire someday and that day will be before I am too weak to draw a bow.

[Michael Lewis]

Arnt, you are too modest. That is some beautiful scraper work. It is obvious you have a good design in your mind.

[Beate Ritzert]

I am fiddling around with my old amps, mostly German vintage stuff. And of course i am playing them...

Here one of my latest projects:

The red amp is a Dynacord Eminent from 1967. Od version - all tubes (most of the amps were hybrid amp with valves just in the power section). Nominal 80/110 W from 2 EL34 running at nearly 800 V. It required a cap job, new bias trimmers, a rise of the input impedance to make it usable as a bass amp and a headshell (which has been taken from a totally defunct HiFi-favorit.

To the left of it my up to now largest project: restoring another old Dynacord (hybrid) amp, a larger one - G-2000, about 1972, 150/220 W (i.e. about 180 W "clean" with fresh valves and designing a preamp stage for it.

[Mark Swanson]

Wow, cool amps!

[Hans Bezemer]

That are really cool amps!

[Hans Bezemer]

I've been building and flying some simple kites with my kiddo's, build from garbage bags and some bamboo sticks.
(see my-best-kite.com for good plans).

Also I try to play in tune chords on a fretless guitar and let my beard grow, so there's much to do!

[Dan Smith]

Various odds and ends.

[Chuck Piper]

I have not been here for a while. I've made clocks from old cymbals, lamps from old silver clarinets, and some doll stands for my daughter.

[Jamie Unden]

I recently finished this. I had a lot of help from my brothers and my wife, though.

[Randy Roberts]

Here's the latest distraction my wife has used to keep me away from instruments. she found a table and wanted a bench for one side. Of course they didn't make a bench to go with it....
Made her happy, and I was still able to sneak in a little binding work around the edge and keep up some French polish licks.

[Greg Martin]

Great thread and i'm liking Bill Moll more and more !!
Ive got 20 guitars under my belt,In 25 years. raised a great son, Andy who is the driving force in my guitar building. Check his site here : www.proguitarshop.com
Ive built tube amps and stomp boxes and repaired old am radios, all for fun of learning. I spent ten years working for the best wood workers supply house in California Austin Hardwoods.
By trade Im a wood mite, I've been self employed forever. Most recently I've built a murphy wall bed in our guest room from figured cherry and an Armour/linen closet for my wife from curly red oak (hard to find curly red oak ). At this point in time Im remodeling our master bath. The fun continues.

[Barry Daniels]

Great thread and i'm liking Bill Moll more and more !

You do know that Mr. Moll is no longer making guitars, right?

[Gordon Bellerose]

I recently made a new set of bedroom dresser/ end tables.
I also make game boards.

[Glenn Ohman]

Besides making guitars I am really interested in repairing/collecting/using old woodworking/metalworking machines.

Glenn

[Matthew Lau]

I think Bill makes tactical silencers for guns

[Eric Baack]

I think Bill makes tactical silencers for guns

I'll take one

[Jeff Lewis]

I make these.

[Randy Roberts]

Might as well beat a dead horse...
most recent distraction from guitar building: