Hey /diy/ I want to make an instrument called a morin khurr i

Hmm.. get some veneered pieces. This vil make sure that the instrument doesn't warp over time.

A lamello machine might do the trick when piecing it together if you can't manage traditional joining.

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How precise do you want to be? A lot of people make simple stringed instruments with cigar boxes for the soundbox. That would get rid of the hardest part and you'd just need to make the neck, nut, bridge, and tailpiece. There's a lot of things you can use in an improvised fashion for some of these, like using a hinge as a tailpiece.

You can easily simplify the neck and not go for the carved headstock - probably better to focus on getting it to work right rather than aesthetics, at least for the first one. You can probably live without a proper fingerboard for the first one, but that's entirely up to you.

Get clamps and good wood glue for joining things.

If you want make the soundbox yourself, look at getting some spruce for the soundboard. You could always cheap and take the top off a cigar box and glue a spruce soundboard onto it for a quick and dirty soundbox that's probably still better than a regular cigar box instrument.

Crimson Guitars has a youtube playlist about making cigar box guitars, you can probably get a lot of info and ideas of what to do there.

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Based on the given blueprint, I definitely can say it's very similar to the family of bowed string instruments. If you want to do this properly I'd advise to get some information on violin- and especially cello building. I can add way more info than i roughly did on the pic as it is definitely incomplete. The best would be if you find a more detailed blueprint or a step-by-step guide.