The whole process in 10 images :)

For the fun of the eventual reader of this blog, here are the 10 most important pictures during this journey.

Credits

My heartfelt thank you goes out to:

• my family for driving me crazy enough to actually do this!
• Jim McCarthy for providing such a precise and readable DIY instruction
• The Unknown Sales Guy at Hornbach, who upon my description of what I wanted to with the bars pointed me to a router
• Herr Pfanz of Edelholzverkauf.de
• Sebi for getting me the paper of Ingolf Bork
• Jürgen for calling me nuts to do this
• Ingolf Bork for applying scientific curiosity to marimbas
• my neighbours for tolerating the screeching sound of the router on weekends
• my neighbour Manfred for lending me the chop saw
• myself, for holding on till the end and finishing it!!! 

It's done!

Today, the final steps for the marimba were completed. Due to a snazzling noise on some bars, a stripe of velcro was glued between the wooden groove and the insulation foam. This eliminated all snazzling, but it is a semi-permanent mounting, which can be removed relatively easy, should retuning be necessary.

So that's it, and this is what it looks like: