Stick Dulcimer Making update, zero frets and pickups!
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This is one of my recent stick dulcimers, just a few detail changes that i thought I would share, first the zero fret that is a simple alternative to the standard nut and helps to set the action. Note I use a guitar fret at the zero position and banjo frets for the rest. The other change has been to slim down the bindings to 3.5mm, this still protects edges but gives a more delicate look. To fit a simple pickup and have binding was a problem for me, In theory you could screw the pickup and attach the piezo after construction but the soundhole is small and the room for doing this minimal, so i opted for making the stick dulcimer, routing the binding then removing the back, using the location pins to ensure it returns to the same place after fitting the tailpiece and soldering the pickup. I used an anderson tailpiece and drilled out the tailpiece bracket to 14mm to let it freely slide over it. The endblock was drilled out at 12mm and a thread cutter was used to match the anderson jack socket. I then tested the pickup and glued up the bindings after.
Update 2013!!
No need to thread the tailpiece if you use an end pin jack with two nuts one each side, just drill it to the size of the thread and it should be fine.
That little bit at the end had a really awesome sound to it :D
really suberb work, I just fretted up my 2nd, too bad I didn't have any higher fret wire, just have to fiddle, one thing in buiding two at a time, sometime you make twice as many mistakes, but the assemblage has gone smoother....
your instruments have a really wonderful sound!!!!!! thanks for sharing your techniques!!!
best regards
cj
Congratulation Master. You are alwais the best. Gattone
@Cj12sings Thanks! yes making a couple at a time is the way! Took me ages to learn that lesson!
@MarkAllanBarnes Yes, it is a modern form of a long necked lute, a form that goes back to ancient times
@MrRandomWritings It is just to position the strings so a wooden nut is perfect!
Dulcimers make me hungry for Ducth apple caramel fritters.
@wmacdonald Yes, I am sure these are already used, might be best with a couple of these connected together in various places of the sounbdbox.
Old broken link removed, My Instruments, plans, DVD's strings and Accessories are available from my website as usual
@PrinsRik I think I tend to use belcat for these mainly or a generic version like the piezo from the GT537 acoustic guitar piezo set with an Anderson endpin jack
@MrRandomWritings I plan to use zero frets for all my steel strung instruments from now on, Use a slightly higher fret for the zero fret and it really helps! oh, yes, I am now adding piezo pickups like yourself! lol
Hi Michael, great work as always! What type of pickup do you use? I know it is a piezo pickup but from which vendor. It was bit hard to read from the video. Thanks!
I think I was playing something inspired by the music on one of the Zeitgeist movies,
It's suddenly struck me how the Appalachian Dulcimer is similar to the Turkish Baglama, with 3 courses, a long thin neck and unevenly spaced frets.
What was that you played at the end??? It sounds familiar.