My 7th build, second two-stringer, first real cigar box build from my recent yardsale score. I found the 1" stick in a hardware store in the tool handle rack. The wood is dark, dense and dead straight. Came from Indoneasia, the only one like it. The box is nice wood throughout. Gitty tuners, frets, piezo. Drawer knob finial. Strings are .32 and .16, D - g. It's fretted like a dulcimer in diatonic scale. My son-in-law liked my first one, I thought he should have one, to share with my grand-daughter.
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