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Handmade Music Factory – great DIY book

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This beautifully produced, full-color book written by Mike Orr, a professional carpenter, shows you how to make your own musical instruments. Projects include a washtub bass, a soup can diddley bow, an electrified stomp box and washboard, a variety of cigar box guitars, an ironing board lap steel guitar, and an upcycled tape deck amplifier. via Boing Boing

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