A luthier is a maker of stringed instruments. As you can see, most of our drawings are for luthiers. And while I have you, let me give you a few of my quick tips.
1) Make photocopies of your drawings, and paste them lightly on your wood. Then cutting them out is as simple as cutting on the lines. 2) Always complete the rest of the instrument before making the fret board. Sometimes, your scale length doesn't come out right. When this happens, you can easily run a custom fret scale (see our simple scaler software under "tools") and you can still salvage the instrument. 3) Use cheap wood when you are practicing. My first instrument used a two by four and a piece of shelf. It takes some practice before it is worth spending money on wood.
If you are looking for more information on the simple mousetrap car we presented on Youtube, here is the place. By popular demand, we now offer detailed drawings and kits so that you can build the car yourself. When built well, this car will easily travel across a school gymnasium on the power stored in one standard mousetrap.
For those of you have have just stumbled on this site, and wonder why anyone would care, this is popular because a lot of schools around the world have moustrap powered car competitions.
This section is actually a tribute to my boyhood obsession with steam engines. From the time I was quite young, it was my goal to build a running steam engine. I finally made my first running steam engine when I was a senior in high school. Shortly after that, I built my first violin, and haven't built a steam engine since!
