Electric Dulcimer MK3

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2015/11/14 06:02:32 (permalink)

Electric Dulcimer MK3

The project is well underway, Here is the body and head awaiting primer.

 
This one will have twin pickups, tone and volume controls. It will have six strings in three double courses, but the tail and nut will also accommodate a four course arrangement.

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    craigb
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    Re: Electric Dulcimer MK3 2015/11/14 06:24:10 (permalink)
    You're really becoming a champ at these! 

     
    Time for all of you to head over to Beyond My DAW!
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    Re: Electric Dulcimer MK3 2015/11/14 11:24:58 (permalink)
    Hi,
     
    Wow ... so very nice!

    Music is not about notes and chords! My poem is not about the computer or monitor or letters! It's about how I was able to translate it from my insides! 
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    Re: Electric Dulcimer MK3 2015/11/14 12:44:06 (permalink)
    Looks nice,
    good luck
     
     
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    Re: Electric Dulcimer MK3 2015/11/14 12:45:27 (permalink)
    Looking good so far Glyn!

     
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    Glyn Barnes
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    Re: Electric Dulcimer MK3 2015/11/27 06:09:09 (permalink)
    The scratch plate from ScratchIT arrived this morning. So I am beginning to get a real idea of how it will look. I have to wait 2 weeks for the lacquer to harden before I polish it. In the mean time I will finish the finger board and bridge. I just noticed I got the jack socket backwards, good job I did not fix it like that!



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    Re: Electric Dulcimer MK3 2015/11/27 09:16:03 (permalink)
    Hi,
     
     4 strings dude ... 4 strings ... I'm ready!

    Music is not about notes and chords! My poem is not about the computer or monitor or letters! It's about how I was able to translate it from my insides! 
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    Re: Electric Dulcimer MK3 2015/11/27 11:16:15 (permalink)
    Moshkito
    Hi,
     
     4 strings dude ... 4 strings ... I'm ready!


    I am sure my skill are not yet at a point where I could make a high stress instrument like a bass guitar, though I would like to try one day. But its a big step up from a dulcimer or a lap steel.
    I may buy a kit as a first step so I can understand the construction techniques.

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    Re: Electric Dulcimer MK3 2015/11/27 16:04:01 (permalink)
    Many years ago a magazine, I think it was "International Musician", ran a monthly series on building your own solid-body electric guitar or bass.

    Episode one contained background stuff about design and necessary tools and the instruction to pop down to your local timber merchant and get a suitably sized slab of mahogany or alder, a length of mahogany or maple for the neck and a strip of rosewood or ebony for the fingerboard.

    Then put them all somewhere warm and dry and leave them alone to season. For at least ten years...

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