A second stick dulcimer

That is so very awesomely cool. I just built the one string didly bow. So i have questions about yours. I see yours is going to have 3 strings. Is that the common number? Next did you have plans? And last how do you know where to place the frets, i there a deminsion and where do you pull that from?

Yes three strings. This one is tuned gdg. I’ve seen some with a pair of high g strings (so four strings) but not actually heard them. the fret pattern for this comes from plans that I got from Michael J. King, a luthier in England. The positioning is very anoyingly precise. I’ll be building king’s rounded body version next. It’s a proper instrument.

Sorry, it’s tuned dad…I made a mistake above

Well, here it is. Lots of shellac, maybe six coats or seven, and a quick rub with a pumice and mineral oil paste.

It sounds great, very loud and a bit “twangy”… and that wood! To think I almost burned it. Thanks rabbit for spotting it.

I made the tailstock from some aluminum angle ground on my sharpening grinder, painted flat black.

The little wooden knob at the end looks huge in this phito but it seems ok in real life.

Very cool a unique and beautiful project

You can find a fret calculator at StewMac. I have built several of these in different configurations.

Very cool, extra nice.