Forum Activity for @rick-probst

Tips on shipping dulcimers

FOR SALE:instruments/music items/CDs/Wanted to Buy...

I recently adapted and used one of Stew Macs new guitar shipping boxes with it's inflatable insert. Worked great!

I just thought I would weigh in and clarify a few things. I am a member here and I can always be found that way. I do not have a website at this time.

I am retired from my previous vocation of doing graphic design and can now spend my time being a luthier. I'm currently devoting myself to making dulcimers (even if a uke sneaks in occasionally). I'm not trying to be hard to find, I'm jumping up and down saying “I'm Here, I'm Here”.

 

Your Online Dulcimer Buying Adventures!

Instruments- discuss specific features, luthiers, instrument problems & questions

As far as selling online, I have never had anyone ask to return one. Since I'm out here on the left coast most of my sales have been online. If someone did want to return one, I would share (or in some circumstances) pay the cost of the return shipping. 

Extra Frets

General mountain dulcimer or music discussions

 John,

I appreciate your answer. I did cut a bunch of all types when I first set up my slotting jig a couple of years ago. I now have a whole bunch of fretboards labeled “All extra frets”. It was a production mistake to assume there would be a preference for that configuration. No big, as they can always become chromatic fretboards.

Ken,

Thanks for confirming what I thought might be true.

 

-rick

Extra Frets

General mountain dulcimer or music discussions

Thanks for the reply Ken. My understanding goes like this:

If you add the 6+ then you add the 13+ which is an active higher. With this same logic, if you add the 1+ it implies the 8+ again an active higher. Continuing the logic, the 1+ and 8+ would also have the 15+.

Do some players want the 1+, 6+ and 13+ without the additional frets that are an active higher, the 8+ and the 15+?

 

The reason I am trying to work this out is because I am going to slot a bunch of fingerboards on my slotting jig. I can always add slots later by hand but would like to cut as many slots as I can with the jig. Do I just jig cut slots for no extra frets?

 

-rick

Extra Frets

General mountain dulcimer or music discussions

A very general question.

If you were buying a new or used mountain dulcimer, which extra frets would you want, if any? This will help me decide which configuration of frets I should put on the new dulcimers that I build.

 

thanks

-rick 

 

updated by @rick-probst: 07/31/23 07:25:14PM