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I've been building stringed instruments for about 5 years now. I enjoy making unusual, but playable instruments. Instruments I've made include F5 mandolins from scratch, several International Violin mandolins (IV kits), flat back lute (13 courses), kantele (Finnish folk instrument), travel guitar, archtop guitar (under construction), concert ukuleles and even a few bamboo flutes and recorders. You can read more about my different instruments in my blog at Torzyn Musical Instruments.

My "day job" includes doing e-commerce web programming, Mysql database integration, and PHP web page programming. I would like to make luthiery my fulltime job, but that will take some time to achieve. More information about me personally can be found on my Myspace page: MandolinRick

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