Well it's not a banjo, but I did a fret job tonight on a whimsical instrument I'm building. I call it a nutcase dulcimer because it's a walkabout dulcimer made from a wood box which originally was filled with chocolate covered nuts. I had a banjo neck that I'd started that I cut too narrow by mistake when I was shaping it. I cut off the 5th string peg area and reshaped the neck but figured it would only be wide enough for three strings (or at least, three string courses) so a walkabout dulcimer came to mind. I'm getting nearly finished with it - tonight I hammered in the frets, leveled, crowned, and dressed them. It's a diatonic scale, of course, so only about 2/3rds the frets of a chromatic fretboard of the same length.
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PruchaLegend Says:
Thursday, September 25, 2008 @10:37:14 PM
Sounds like a great idea! Post some songs so we can hear what it sounds like. Who know? Perhaps you've started something.
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'Bartlett Banjo Mic' 5 hrs
'Broke me phone' 5 hrs
