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The body is a vintage galvanized chick feeder that was found in an abandoned hardware store.

The neck is crafted from scrap plywood and heart pine, with a fingerboard of rejected jatoba

flooring

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as is the bridge. A spoon serves as the tail piece; stock thumbscrews for tuners; and

cork flooring for the chin rest. Miscellaneous scrap wood was used for fine tuners and support.

The bow was $5 from a used-instrument store. The decorations include craft store paints, glitter

glues, and Mardi Gras beads and mirror shards inside the body.

Chick Feeder Fiddle

BY LEE CONNAH OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND

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Ask your local

auto garage for extra

HUBCAPS

they make great banjo

resonators.