I am back

back in vancouver, and in the last 2 days have been very busy.got the first piece of padouk, and made all the whole tone keys for a 3 octave marimba and some of the semitones, a total of 28 keys:

The keys, rough cut

the board, before anything

on the tablesaw, after the first couple of pieces. 

tomorrow we are going to the island for a week, and my grandpa has a significant inventory of wood working tools. this will allow me to tune the bars while over there.