b'Troy Donockleys fan fret wedge body, tropical bouzoukiThis picture is Troys new solid bodyIf you are willing to give me free reinawful for splinters, even worse then Bouzouki, with a carved top andto make what I like, to pay the priceWenge.(Its actually very similar to reversed sunburst finish. I ask, and then say I want it to beWenge.) Watch out for Troy cursing It was designed for use withunusual, be warned, it might comeas he runs his left hand up and down Nightwish, and the picture below isout a bit like this. Troy Donockleythe fingerboard bindings. The neck taken from Rock In Rio with a TVwanted an unusual Bouzouki;is English Walnut, the closest match audience of 42 million. How can heI think he wants to upstage AdeI could get to the Mango colour, go back to Folk Clubs after that? Edmonson. I suggested fan frets,with a central section of Coconut, and he said fantastic withoutalthough I did get the weight down realizing there was a pun in that.by using a Mahogany core, so the I think this is the first ever fan fretCoconut is only about 3mm thick bouzouki. Then the fun started. Iin most places. I suppose this all wanted a fairly large body, whichmakes it a Colonial bouzouki rather meant that it would be deep, andthan tropical or Caribbean. I did possibly a bit awkward to play.consider sloping the soundhole the Hence - a wedge body, slimmer onother way, but this way emphasizes the topside, tilting the fingerboardall the strange angles. There were a slightly towards the player. Notfew other oddities that I could have wanting to disappoint Troy, I lookedincluded but I have to restrain myself through all the bits of unusualsometimes. The bracing inside is timber that I have accumulatedmore or less a double X brace, with here. I had a set of Curly Mango thatthe angles changed to fit, and it is had rather too much discolourationequipped with my usual Headway for my taste, but was ideal for theFEQ pickup. The fan frets really do bouzouki shape. Then I had a flashwork, it puts the left hand at ideal of inspiration. I have a plank ofangles as it swings from the elbow, Coconut timber, incredibly hard andand combines the topstrings of a heavy, with a lovely ring to it, ideal forshort scale bouzouki with the bottom Xylophone keys. With a fair chancestrings of a long scale. What more that both of these came from thecan you want?Caribbean, they were ideal partners. This time Im only using the Coconut as decoration, but Im not ruling out the possibility that it might be used as a body timber at some point. Its biggest disadvantage is that it is 281'