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Hi Steve, thanks for getting to me regarding charango building.

I had started  my charango building blog on frets.net a few years ago but never continued the documentation here. I have made though complete picture documentations of my two first charangos creation, the second includes picture captions - in Spanish as good or bad as my Spanish is. You can find them in my personal picture blog here:

http://www.straordinaria.ch/taller/

(navigate to "construcción - Charango 1" respectively "Construcción - Charango 2".

I really ought to finish the description in english here on my fert.net blog.

If you have some specific questions, just ask me here, or if you feel like it maybe even better on the frets.net forum in order others will be able to benefit from our conversation as well.

Please shoot me a pm with a link to the related forum-thread if you ask a charango related question on the forum so that I will see it at all, as I don't lurk around there very often.

Thanks again for your interest.

Cheers,

Markus

Indeed, Bolivian are extremely proud of their one-piece charangos and ronrocos, as if it would be something magic. But the only magig in there is that every now and then they crank yout a knot-free instrument, which actually is nice, but doesn't happen too often. In my opinion is is just a waste of valuable wood and, as I said, giving away control over wood quality. The only positive thing (other than "the magic") is saving one or two joinery work steps.

If you feel comfortable with asking in the forum this is fine for me, as the public (or what remained of it - seems that the forum is not very active anymore) could benefit of the conversation as well.

Also, I would be notified on posts on the forum, but not on your repiles on your "profile wall" (different thing as PMs), which also is the reason that I didn't notice for a couple of days that you gave an answer to my remarks here.

No worries, I'll be passing by here every once in a while.