Haha, thank you very much Cath! I so enjoyed your shamisen making videos and blogs, and they actually helped me while restoring this one.
For Michael: Here it is … I bought the entire set for a hundred dollars (or thereabouts) on eBay. It came with EVERYTHING (except a doukake), including the Seiza bench, which is VERY old, and it all came in a shamibako. I’m fairly certain that the wood is kouki, and the itomaki are bone and ivory. (I thought they were plastic!) When I got it, it was really dusty, and everything stank! lol
I started cleaning and refinishing, and VIOLA’! This beauty emerged …
Here are the itomaki - I just soaked them in hydrogen peroxide (which I use for sore throats) for an hour, and they came out clean as a whistle, and then I polished the bone itomaki with a nail buffer.
The glue has arrived, I have calf skins, and now I’m just waiting for the tarp clips - I’m going to use these for the kisen (the thought of carving 20 kisen gave me such a headache, lol) …
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005F2Z50I/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I’ll update later. Thank you BOTH for all of your help! I’m so excited. 
P.S. because everything in the box was so stinky, I put a cloth with a few drops of lavender oil in the box. Now it all smells like stinky lavender oil. 