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Comment by Rand Moore on January 9, 2013 at 2:00pm

HI Dave,

Well, it's good to hear someone else is having success with this method of building. It kind of flies in the face of traditional guitar building lore. I wish the trash recyclers here in China weren't so efficient so I could have a chance to find good quality scrap wood to build with. That which I have found is not so good, so I use it to build forms, jigs and work table tops. Fortunately the wood I buy is not that expensive and already comes in usable sizes. Well, keep on building and experimenting...

-Rand.

Comment by Dave Lynas on January 9, 2013 at 1:11pm

I've got one like that. Mine was a cardboard ducimer kit i got at a sale. I took off the cardboard box and used a Maple brace the full length of the new top to pull the slightly bowed fretboard back into shape. I thought it would be a sound killer, but not so. It sounds great and the brace straightened the neck. I used scrap wood from our local sawyer for the sides and top and back. This scrap is edging off old warehouse beams from Duluth's waterfront. Pine and Spruce and Cedar. I have lots of this scrap to build with.

Comment by Rand Moore on January 9, 2013 at 12:21pm

Thanks, Guys...

This headstock and neck design is pretty much my standard design these days. The innovating thing about this design is that the instrument is a "neck-almost-thru" design with an elevated mountain dulcimer style fingerboard. So, the soundboard is actually glued to a length of wood for its entire length on both sides of the sound board, yet the resulting instrument sounds real nice.

-Rand.

Comment by Dave Lynas on January 9, 2013 at 8:45am

Wow, that's nice. I love your headstock. Nice woodworking.