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Permalink Reply by Greg Thompson on February 1, 2015 at 5:24am

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Permalink Reply by Graham Alibone on February 1, 2015 at 10:42am

Nice one Greg.

Permalink Reply by TN Twang on February 2, 2015 at 5:19am

Nice. I'm gonna' try to steal your design for the headstock and the fitting of the neck to the can.

Tuned D-d or G-d (or something else)?

Permalink Reply by Greg Thompson on February 3, 2015 at 10:15am

Thanks guys!
TN, steal away. It came more as an afterthought. I needed more meat on the head than the scrap neck had, so...
It's tuned D-d. This sounded best to my ear.

Permalink Reply by Rand Moore on February 5, 2015 at 5:03am

Nice 2-stringer. One thing you might try on a later build is to have the two stings spaced closed together (about 1/8" apart), use the same string size for both strings and tune them in unison to get a kind of "mandolin twang" when you fret and pick/strum the two strings simultaneously. Makes for an interesting sound.

Your tuning with the two strings tuned an octave apart will make the second string (the drone string) sound okay. But I recommend tuning it "A-d" and see how you like drone string tuned to "A". With three string dulcimers, they often tune them D-A-d, and your two stringer is just like them, but with out the third string. SO, I'm sure the second string tuned to "A" should also sound good.
-Rand.

Permalink Reply by Greg Thompson on February 5, 2015 at 1:30pm

Thanks for the advice Randy! Sounds good. I'll keep all that in mind and I'll try out the A d tuning, too.
I really appreciate the feedback!!!!

Permalink Reply by Greg Thompson on August 14, 2016 at 3:23am

Adding to my canjo building is my new Foster's Diddley bow.
Scrap maple neck, gitty tuner, carved head that is inspired by Australian Aboriginal art.

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Permalink Reply by TN Twang on August 14, 2016 at 12:46pm

Pretty.

2 8ves of frets and you still got the can right side up. (Maybe I should switch to Foster's.)

Oops. Went back and checked. Not quite 2 8ves. Still impressive!!