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2-hour hammered dulcimer
Thanks. Cool article. The old artwork with the woman with the trapezoidal instrument reminded me of the Hungarian cimbalom.
Dul-cim-mer and cim-bal-lom. I missed the similarity initially, but they are cousins with ancient history...for anyone interes
Read more…Help: WTB, WTT, etc. - looking for aviation/aero themed box or label for a gift guitar to go with the modified tuners shown
As mentioned above, looking for a box or label with an aviation, airplane or similar theme.
I don't know what I'm going to do with the headstock yet. It's just a rectangular piece of maple right now
It's be a 4-cylind
Read more…sound like a cigar box guitar?
Ever see the B. Kilban comic of the cat with the guitar & the words 'Love to eat them mousies...mousies what I love to eat..."?
http://eatmousies.com/intro.html
Read more…making inlay dots from CD's or DVD's
Hi:
I don't know if anyone else has tried this, but I had an idea to use blank CD or DVD discs for inlay material, mainly neck dots. It's about 1mm thick. I do not own any of those hollow punch tools, and was wondering if anyone has tried this, or
Read more…fishing barter wild idea...I have alot of power transformers but can't seem to build necks
I just got a wild idea...I have thousands of new old stock (surplus) power transformers from an electronics manufacturer in Benton Harbor, MI, from anot-sso-great-idea venture I undertook years and houses ago. Few people won't figure out who I'm talk
Read more…bridge types and stress on CB top vs......um, alternatives?
Thinking about different kind of general types of bridges...
I visualize some as causing compression on the top of a CBG (trapeze tailpiece and floating bridge)
and some causing what I assume is tension (typical acoustic guitar glued on with bridge pin
Rambing thoughts inspired by Dustin Smith's question on tone killin'
Been a while since I've been here and couldn't even even seem to find the 'new thread' button...sorry I just sent this as a message to all...
This is so ramblingly full of thoughts inspired by Dustin's tone-killin' thread, I thought it might be rudely
