Sat, 30 Sep 2006
A Cool New Dulcimer and what’s wrong with EBay?
Here I’ve wiped some alcohol on the wood to show roughly what it will look like with some finish
on it.
And another glamour shot of this beautiful wood.
And here’s a top down shot that will show how the grain will lay out on the back.
The fretboard is laid up. It’s a bocote base with an ebony fingerboard divided by a veneer of maple.
Why the veneer of maple? Because it gives a fine white line between the two different colors of wood.
Here’s an example of what a dulcimer looks like with a bocote base for the fretboard, the maple veneer,
and then a purple heart fingerboard . . .
. . . and yet another view that shows off the bocote.
But what’s wrong with EBay?
I put 2 Tenessee music boxes up on EBay for only $150 and neither of them sold! Only $150 for an instrument!?
Is that too expensive??? I re-listed one at $130 and it finaly sold.
So then I put a BEAUTIFUL walnut dulcimer up for $325 and after listing it twice it still didn’t sell.
Now it’s back up there again
at only $300 and I don’t have a single bid. I really hope that SOMEBODY buys this instrument. It’s really quite nice.
So I had hoped to expand my reputation by selling on Ebay. I had visions of placing a beautiful hand made instrument
on EBay, people would swoon, hearts would break, Dulcimer players worldwide would rush to their computers to
bid on this piece of beauty . . .
. . . and nothing happened.
<sigh>
So we’ll see if it sells this week. I just can’t believe that only $300 is too much for a hand made dulcimer.
Stay tuned.
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