I've been giving a lot of thought lately to shop stuff, as I scheme the renovation of the barn and plot the reconstitution of my woodworking environment. Bought an upgrade for the table saw fence a week ago, and a serious planer a couple of days ago, and so kicked off a flurry of thoughts about tools and sharpening and still more necessary additions to the array (real dust collection... better lighting... more attention to precision... and so on). My instrument-building fantasies are alive and well again. Two videos exemplify resources that weren't available a few years ago, when I was last thinking about luthierie:
Oud construction:
Oud as object of beauty: