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Permalink Reply by Hip Bone Bellaire on January 5, 2011 at 2:11am

WOOOOOOW, that's real nice.... how does it sound?

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Permalink Reply by Rand Moore on January 9, 2011 at 4:29pm

Hi Hip Bone Bellaire.
This second 'cut-corner sound hole' CBG is now my testbed for different fretboard layouts. The original fret board on it had a diatonic fret layout, which is pretty much what I normally make because of my familiarity with it and stick dulcimers (strummers, strum stick, call 'em what you like). The instrument sounds fine with the diatonic scale, but I was also interested in tying out a "bluscimer" scale (the blues scale on a limited (dedicated) fretboard) and a D Major Pentatonic scale (again on a limited (dedicated) fretboard). As the fretboard is held on with a couple of tie-wraps, it's easy to change them out. So, I'm experimenting with different scales w/o having to build a dedicated instrument. The bluescimer sounds a bit blusey, but I think I also need to change out the strings to something heavier and tune it to a more bass sound. For the D Major pentatonic scale, I'm still working on, but I expect it will want a nylon (or better yet, a Aquilla Nylgut) set of strings to get the "oriental" sound I want. It may be that I'll have to build dedicated instruments for these fretboards because of the different string requirements. I may also what to change the scale lengths. So, well see what happens in the coming months.

-Rand.

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Permalink Reply by carverman on January 10, 2011 at 3:31am

Interesting concept  of trying out pentatonic blues oriented fretting.   How would you mount the fret board then/?

Use of  counter sunk screws on every  second fret to hold it down rather than glue it on?

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Permalink Reply by Mad Mike's CBG's on January 10, 2011 at 8:11am

May effect the strength of the box...I bought a round hole cutter bit for my drill and it worked great, tape the oustide of the lid and drill inward...Good Luck!

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