New gourd lute coming...

Started on a new gourd lute today. The gourd is prepared and here's a rough sketch of the headstock. The final design will be woodburned onto the headstock...

On this lute the six strings will be mounted in holes in the headstock and run to tuners below the body.

The bridge will be supported on a tin can resonator with a hand-wound magnetic pickup under the resonator to pick up the vibrations.