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New User's Guide for my "Paddle-Box Dulcimers" (and stick dulcimers in general)

Hi All,

I have created a WordPad (.rtf) file that documents how to use the 4-string red oak "paddle box" stick dulcimers that I primarily make and sell these days. The file has been compressed using WinRAR to about 4.5 Mbs, expanding to about 24 Mb on disk. There are lots of useful photos and info, makes for a good read (IMHO). Would like to hear back from readers as to improvements that could be made, and any errors you find. Consider it public domain, free download, etc.

-Rand.

ROPBD1%20-%20User%27s%20Guide.rar

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Comment by TN Twang on June 17, 2015 at 6:13am: Eager to see it. I think user guides & books of tabs are essential to sales of CBGs to an unsuspecting public.

Comment by Clock The Wolf on June 12, 2015 at 10:11pm: Can't wait to see it!

Comment by Rand Moore on June 11, 2015 at 8:24pm: Hi Oily,

I tried putting it on FreeDrive.com, but China is blocking access. I suspect the same for all such free disk storage sites, and certainly any website associated with the word "blog". I'm still surprised they still let me access this site. This year they finally blocked google.com entirely (no more access via google.com.hk, etc.) So, I guess I will have to wait a few days til I'm back in the States and put the User's Guide up then, and then put a link to it here as you suggested.

-Rand.

Comment by Ron "Oily" Sprague on June 9, 2015 at 6:04am: Make a link to another site, or put it on Dropbox and provide the link to share files.

Comment by Rand Moore on June 8, 2015 at 6:45pm: Well, that didn't seems to work. I guess you can't download RAR files from a Ning website like CBN. What kind of files can you download?

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