My own instruments include a guitar I made myself at a luthiers course with Gerard Gilet which was a copy of a Gibson J200 Everly Brothers Semi Jumbo which I made out of Sitka spruce for the soundboard, blackwood for the back and sides, New Guinea rosewood for the neck and an Indian rosewood fretboard.
Gerard is the consummate luthier and a super nice man to boot and I learned a lot from him and have a really lovely guitar too. I unhesitatingly recommend his guitars and his luthiers course. Here is a couple of pix;
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Here it is ontop of the Fender Rhodes and next to a metal clarinet (clarihorn?) I bought and restored for my wife at the time.
I also own a lovely K-Yairi cedar top acoustic with lovely burl maple back and sides,
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A 4-string electric bass I made when I was about 20;
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--Several drums; some congonlombe (african congas) I got from Eco drums and a djembe shell formerly from my favorite ever Australian band, Bubaca, which I found in a music shop in Katoomba in the Blue Mountains, I hope you aren't missing it Maurice! They were a Senegalese crew that did awesome funk-afro-rap and later did a percussion only show which was a dance frenzy. Wish I still had the albums.
The next shot shows my kit from above; Premier 22" kick, two snares one with snares one without, a 16"floor tom with wetsuit material on it (thud) and a 15"bass tom hanging off it (far right,) zildijian 22"earth tone ride and old Zildjian hi-hats, various home made cowbells and scavenged ones, 15"and 13"roto-toms with some smaller ones yet to be mounted somehow, cracked Paiste 18"power crash I found cheap at Lamberdis music in Melbourne and some unbranded cymbals plus 4 tuned timbales (just can't seem to walk past a timbale that is going cheap.) Since then I have scored a very old shimmer ride by zildjian another timbale and a better set of hats. In the next shot from the front you can see on of my metal gongs too. (I love fossicking for sounds in the scrap yard.)
The old favorite djembe is my most treasured drum, It is mango wood with roohide. Now it shows evidence of borers which I unsuccessfully treated with borax so it will go to the customs gamma ray irradiation device for help, costly but worth it then a goat skin and new rope and I will be back on it.
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The Bass Rig is based on a Yorkville Sound Elite 18"sub I scored at the tender centre for a mere $345 and it is driven by a 320W Acoustic head I've had for ages, very fat yet nice and tight. The rack box has a 150W per side Jade amp, an ART SGX2000 guitar pre amp and effects box, a kit dual compressor, a slightly now defunct Phonics 16 track mixer which I loved, a Kawai RV4 4ch effects rack, a Behringer moduliser, an original Oberheim echoplex, a kit surround sound box and on top a cd player and a stereo 10 band eq. To the left is one of a pair of speaker boxes I built from skip-sourced marine ply with nice session drivers I had repaired and piezo horns.
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A Fender Rhodes is lurking in another corner with the other speaker. I have owned it for years but hardly played it, atop sits a midi controller I'm trying to fix.
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A classical Yamaha I fixed up by grafting a broken off Valencia head onto it to replace the missing original head stock, It sounds really nice. I've given this to my friend Al in exchange for some of his great hand blown glass slides.
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As you can see my instrument collection is obviously getting a bit out of hand...It is amazing what a person can want given years of curious bargain hunting and a big enough tolerance for clutter.