This is a Bouzouki I built, a traditional Greek folk instrument, favoured for the last few decades by Celtic musicians as well. I have to remake the saddle. I used rather non-orthodox luthiery techniques, I was after a natty "rubber bands on a cigar box" sort of tone, and I achieved that. The body of a Bouzouki is normally tear drop shaped, but I designed my own, including the moon and star sound holes, because that's how I roll. The neck on this instrument was originally a guitar neck which I think came off a cheap guitar someone gave me, my only expense was buying 8 tuning pegs. the rest was made of recycled and leftover wood.

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     This is a 3 stringed fretless guitar, which I like to call a Cellolaika, it's sort of like a cello, it's bowed, with a very rounded radius to the fingerboard, but has 3 strings like a Balalaika. It was a guitar, modified by Scott Dakota, I built a new bridge support for it with a clover motif, out of a hunk of maple, the original one was lego, which worked but I thought this might have a better tone and offered to mill it for the instrument's owner, Sharynne NicMhacha.

     Here is a little demo video to get an idea how the Bat bass sounds, music is a medley of Mark Sandman basslines, I'm still figuring them out, so they're not perfect.