This is my first cigar box dulcimer. I like it. That pretty neck and fret board wood is poplar, always a popular choice. It plays and sounds pretty good. Tuned GDG using the GBE strings from a guitar. Short scale 23.25 inches.
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I do remember, Bjorn. Thanks!
That is nice build! Maybe you remember my dulcimer from some time behind, I "split" the body to make it look "like" an Appalchian type. Your type is more practical so I shall try to make one. So thanks for the inspiration!
Thanks, Ambrose and Dave.
This build certainly catches the eye Unc J! Very neat build to incorporate two cigar boxes.
Either one, I wish you fun.
Well I just happened to find a nice three foot section of 1x4 dark poplar the other day. It's nice and straight as well. I also have four niiiice long cohiba boxes I have accumulated and been saving for special projects. Wanted to build a dulcimer since I started this kind of stuff. Amp building isn't working too well for me right now and I need a break from it...Hmmmm... That lap steel I have been promising myself next or the dulcimer... "Floundering in the sea of intellectual uncertainty..."
- George Baker, Teacher and much more...
Thanks, Ray. i am pleased with it too. But nothing special in the build. I just lucked out and found that dark piece of poplar and two nice boxes. I seldom scarf joint the head stock, but do one now and then to show myself I can do it. I think that improved the look too.
Find two good boxes and make one, Ray. Or make your own box.
This is absolutely beautiful, Uncle John! I would love to hear you play anything on it. This is one that I have long wanted to build, but I am not ready for that. Gorgeous what you did with that poplar. Never seen it look quite that good.
Maybe so, BQ. Thanks, Pick. It's not even a relic.
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