Initially I was thinking of making some new washboards out of tigerwood (goncalo alves) but I decided to see if I could bring the old washboards back to life. The top piece was too far gone so that would be made new.

This is how it started


First step was replacing the top piece. It started with cumaru and we tried adding the Aloha insignia to it. The cumaru piece is just sitting in front of the old.


Neither of us liked the insignia because it wasn't in proportion to the original. On the next try I used tigerwood and it came out better. But first I had to strip and repair the washboards.

I used an RO sander to clean up the flat surfaces then followed up with anything I could find in the workshop to clean up the rest.