This is the idea I had for building a dulcijo. Use an octagonal cookie box, but instead of a tin sound board, cut it out and use a 2mm ply veneer instead. I spray painted the cookie box black. Still working on the head stock and connecting the box to the neck. Once that's done I need to do a fingerboard with diatonic fret spacing. I plan to route my 3rd string from the 4th fret under the fingerboard in a channel I plan to cut into the neck. This channel will carry the 3rd string to the nut and over to the headstock. The first tuner will be for string 2. The next tuner, string 2 and the top tuner for string 1.

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Comment by Clock The Wolf on April 21, 2011 at 5:56pm
Looks like it will turn out to be a lot of fun! The octagonal body reminds me of an instrument I once saw in a photo of Jacob Ray Melton, on the front cover of the second edition of Ralph Lee Smith's Appalachian Dulcimer Traditions.

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