This is my entry for the #monomad challenge curated by
A lot of my work during the week revolves around making pieces. There's tons of heavy duty hand work like use a wood plane and sanding. It's like that since I can't afford machines and have to work with limited space.
I've seen the #monomad challenge before but had never considered making post for it. It is weird watching the pieces in this tones as wood loses part of it's charmed if you replaced the colours. However, I have to admit, black and white photos are built different.
On this contrast of light and shadows, things that are not always available to the naked eye are revealed. It also let's me with the filters in the camera. At least, this phone has a good one.
This week, I finally decided to start working on this sound board. I made two out of this wood. Red Cedar is the name (tuna plicata). It isn't red not cedar. Some woods have this weird naming conditions. This is allegedly one of the best woods for sound boards in the world. The other being Spruce.
This one isn't used as much as Spruce since it's easier to get marks of it. It's also a big to remove them. The softer quality and flexibility even makes you think it's going to break. I think that delicate nature is boostered by this filter.
What I tried to show in this sequence of photos is the carving of struts and other reinforcements that make the sound board of a plucked-strings instruments.
All photos were taken with my Redmi note 8 smartphone
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