Just finished (minus small cosmetics) my first CBG. It is three string, tuned to open E. I chose open E because I have fooled around with bass guitar for a couple years and open E seems easier to play.
I can't seem to find anything about this, so I thought I'd ask here. My first and only build has been tuned to E5 using the EAD strings. I found that it sounded best this way (perhaps my background with bass). However, I've been experiment
I'm constructing my first dulcitar. The scale is going to be 24 inches. I'm using this calculator to figure out the distance between frets: http://www.stewmac.com/freeinfo/Fretting/i-fretcalc.html, but I am not sure how many frets I should