Tone Wood, Custom Guitars, Mandolins, and Banjos, Instrument Repairs, and Audio Equiptment. My shop is a part time, seasonal operation. Sales are in person or arranged over the phone.
Currently available:
Black Locust instrument wood, Quater Sawn from hand split billets, starting at $20.00 .
Novelty Live Edge Slabs (vairous local woods) starting at $10.00
For an appointment to pick out wood or try an instrument contact Maurice 573-239-1668 mcmurrymt@gmail.com
Black Locust lumber. Harvested and processed for instrument building at our small wood lot and shop in New Franklin MO. Outlined is a Baritone Ukulele and a 14 inch wide Octave Mandolin. A few of the larger billits are sutiable for small guitars. This years batch will yield some Dreadnought Back and Side Sets.
1.5" X 6" X 30" billet. air dried 3 years. $20.00 Klin drying recommended. Kiln drying and heat treating available.
Novelty Live Edge Slabs
Cherry, Oak, Locust, Walnut, Aromatic Cedar, Elm, etc
Roasted Black Locust Necks and Neck Wood. Black Locust Banjo Rims and Drum Hoops. These have a remarkably bright and bell like tap tone
My videos are shared files in Google Drive. Follow the prompt and ckick the pop out button to view,
Black Locust Mandolin for Nylgut strings
Hybrid Banjos, Each features a neck and a bridge pick up, volume, tone, and blend potentiometers.
Hybrid Banjo Sound Sample, Humbucker neck pickup, propitary electromagnetic bridge pickup,
"The View Fron High-Up"
Composed and played by Noah Kee
Vintge Mid Missouri Mandolins,
A M-0 modified for 4 nylon strings & a M11
Mellowtone Mandolins for 4 or 8 Nylon, Nylgut , or Aquila Red strings
Mandolin for Nylgut strings. Black Locust back, sides and neck, Spruce top, Walnut fretboard and trim, Rubner tuners, K&K Twinspot transducer, Hardshell case.
Wood Top Banjos You Are My Sunshine played by "The Champ" Ethan Froese
Figured Maple Mandocello
The beauitful Maple was purchased from Old Standard Wood, Fulton MO
Jumbo Mandola
Mandocello
Octave Mandolin
Fender Champ.
Dan Torres premimum components
Be on the lookout for our friends and their lovely music!
Ken Anderson & Rebecca Hall of the charming and talented Folk Duo Hungrytown : )