Today we ripped 25 keys in a little more than 3 hours in the garage. Whew! It is hard to imagine how someone would build a marimba with hand tools. We have all but 11 keys of the 61 key marimba now cut. We put a small space heater in the garage in an attempt to convert Antarctica into only Minnesota. Meanwhile, we spent a bit more time double checking dimensions and laying out the keys, so our time in the garage would be more efficient.
Triple-checking calculations and measurements