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@robert-owens • 2 weeks ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "Help with restoring a 1962 Arthur Dixon dulcimer?":

"Okay, great, thanks! You're certainly a wealth of info about all of this...glad we have connected. I will follow your advice and try those string gauges, and..."

@robert-owens • 2 weeks ago • comments: 7
Posted a new Comment on @robert-owens:

"Thanks Ken! You've been a big help already. I wish I could make it to Hindman next week, but it's not looking like I'd be able to on those dates. If that..."

@ken-longfield • 2 weeks ago • comments: 7
Posted a new Comment on @robert-owens:

"I'll be in Hindman, KY next week, April 24, 25, and 26, for the Hindman Dulcimer Homecoming. I guess that's about a 3 1/2 drive but if you can get down..."

@ken-longfield • 2 weeks ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "Help with restoring a 1962 Arthur Dixon dulcimer?":

"With a 28" length I think you would do well with 0.012 for the melody string (the one closest to the player), the same gauge for the middle string, and 0.022..."

@ken-longfield • 2 weeks ago • comments: 7
Posted a new Comment on @robert-owens:

"Well, Robert, I'm usually here welcoming people but I responded to your forum before coming here. Welcome to FOTMD. You are fitting right in. I've enjoyed..."

@robert-owens • 2 weeks ago • comments: 7
Posted a new Comment on @robert-owens:

"Thanks very much! This is a great resource...I've already gotten some very helpful replies from 3-4 different people...already on my way to getting it back..."

@richard-streib • 2 weeks ago • comments: 7
Posted a new Comment on @robert-owens:

"Welcome Robert Owens to Friends of the Mountain Dulcimer. Glad you joined. How special to have and to fix up that old dulcimer that has been a part of your..."

@robert-owens • 2 weeks ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "Help with restoring a 1962 Arthur Dixon dulcimer?":

"Thanks Ken. Well, I don't know if that's more than I want to know, but it's more than I knew I needed to know! So, I've measured the vibrating string length..."

@robert-owens • 2 weeks ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "Help with restoring a 1962 Arthur Dixon dulcimer?":

"Thanks Nate. I have various hardwoods as well as bone blanks for guitar saddles & nuts that I could maybe use. I also have the reamers, which I use for..."

@ken-longfield • 2 weeks ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "Help with restoring a 1962 Arthur Dixon dulcimer?":

"Well, in discussing the tuning pegs I forgot all about your other questions. It does look like the nut is made of metal. Perhaps it is a piece of sheet metal..."

@nate • 2 weeks ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "Help with restoring a 1962 Arthur Dixon dulcimer?":

"On one hand, if you particularly wanted to install a "zero fret" made of metal that is an option. Common materials for dulcimer nut and bridge are very hard..."

@dusty • 2 weeks ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "WTB: glass noter":

"Mike, I have one of the Hall brand pyrex glass noters that Amazon used to sell. Here is the listing explaining that it is no longer available: Hall dulcimer..."

@robert-owens • 2 weeks ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "Help with restoring a 1962 Arthur Dixon dulcimer?":

"Hey fellas. End of the day update here... I appreciate all of you who have weighed in to help me solve this puzzle. So, I was able to remove the tuners, by..."

@ken-longfield • 2 weeks ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "WTB: glass noter":

"Mike, are you asking about a solid glass rod or a cylinder that you put your finger in like you would use for playing slide guitar? If it is the former, do a..."

@mike59 • 2 weeks ago • comments: 0
Created a new forum topic "WTB: glass noter":

"If nobody has one, or is not interested in selling, the big question is: does anyone still make them? Amazon has some "no longer available" items but that's..."

@ken-longfield • 2 weeks ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "Help with restoring a 1962 Arthur Dixon dulcimer?":

"I decided to look at some Dixon dulcimers. Here are links to two photos of Dixon dulcimers:..."

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@nate • 2 weeks ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "Help with restoring a 1962 Arthur Dixon dulcimer?":

"Ken Longfield: Thanks, Nate. I see that I didn't pay attention to that in the original post. It seems like an awful lot of work compared to installing them..."

@ken-longfield • 2 weeks ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "Help with restoring a 1962 Arthur Dixon dulcimer?":

"Thanks, Nate. I see that I didn't pay attention to that in the original post. It seems like an awful lot of work compared to installing them the conventional..."

@nate • 2 weeks ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "Help with restoring a 1962 Arthur Dixon dulcimer?":

"John Pettreemusic: Bizarre is using bunt pans.....Love yer stuff Nate! Thank you, I appreciate it John! With that said, I have to admit Ive seen a ton of..."

@nate • 2 weeks ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "Help with restoring a 1962 Arthur Dixon dulcimer?":

"Ken Longfield: Were the mounting plates of the tuners screwed to the bottom of opening in the peg head? Ken "The dulcimer sings a sweet song." Ken if i..."

@nate • 2 weeks ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "Help with restoring a 1962 Arthur Dixon dulcimer?":

"Soldering tuners into a metal cage gives new meaning to the phrase "locking tuners" LOL"

@john-petry • 2 weeks ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "Help with restoring a 1962 Arthur Dixon dulcimer?":

"Just doing some quick "shop think'n" A thin strip of wood or metal/brass/copper as a cover, mounted flush with the peg box might give it a nice "it was..."

@ken-longfield • 2 weeks ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "Help with restoring a 1962 Arthur Dixon dulcimer?":

"I think I understand the tuning machines now. It appears that they were placed inside the peg head with the gears on the bottom. The shaft that holds the..."

@john-petry • 2 weeks ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "Help with restoring a 1962 Arthur Dixon dulcimer?":

"Bizarre is using bunt pans.....Love yer stuff Nate!"

@john-petry • 2 weeks ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "Help with restoring a 1962 Arthur Dixon dulcimer?":

"Seriously tho....Looking at the peg head, is it perhaps probable that it started with simple pegs, and this was an attempt to put in machine tuners that..."

@john-petry • 2 weeks ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "Help with restoring a 1962 Arthur Dixon dulcimer?":

"Josephus book of antiquities page 438 b ...under pre Viking design concepts........."

@nate • 2 weeks ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "Help with restoring a 1962 Arthur Dixon dulcimer?":

"Wow thats the most bizarre system for anchoring tuning pegs that ive ever seen. Is this a method others have seen before?"

@robert-owens • 2 weeks ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "Help with restoring a 1962 Arthur Dixon dulcimer?":

"Thanks again for your all's input. That makes sense about the sound posts. I think I'll just try and put them back the way they were. And I may try to..."

@ken-longfield • 2 weeks ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "Help with restoring a 1962 Arthur Dixon dulcimer?":

"Both James Edward Thomas and Charles N. Prichard used sound posts in their dulcimers. Thomas installed two post; one around the third fret and the other..."

@john-petry • 2 weeks ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "Help with restoring a 1962 Arthur Dixon dulcimer?":

"The long thin strips across the bottom helps keep the bottom from splitting, they also provide a thicker area of mounting for the top support posts...."

@robert-owens • 2 weeks ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "Help with restoring a 1962 Arthur Dixon dulcimer?":

"Thank you John & Ken for your quick responses and great advice! I think I have the tools and wood that I'll need to repair it and reinforce it, etc. I..."

@john-petry • 2 weeks ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "Help with restoring a 1962 Arthur Dixon dulcimer?":

"Wow....That peg box looks like it came up from the ocean floor in an old viking ship.... I think [if it was my project] I'd start by cleaning out those..."

@ken-longfield • 2 weeks ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "Help with restoring a 1962 Arthur Dixon dulcimer?":

"That looks like an interesting project. From your photos it looks like you have most of or all of the pieces you need. Since you have experience, what do you..."

@ken-longfield • 2 weeks ago • comments: 2
Posted a new Comment on Made in Germany 100 years ago:

"Very nice mandolin. Here is the USA we call those bowl back mandolins "tater bugs." It is because they resemble to shape of insects known as potato bugs...."

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