Fri, 20 Oct 2006
Wow, What a couple of weeks! We were getting ready for the bluegrass festival, we added an extra rehearsal last friday (was it only a week ago today?) and then did the festival on Saturday. On Sunday Merja and I went downtown to the Auburn Antique Street Fair on Sunday and just walking around wore me out. I guess the last couple of weeks are really starting to catch up with me.Then it’s back to teaching. I’m starting to pick up some more students, in fact, I had 2 new students just on Tuesday. I just got a call a few minutes ago from Michael at Lake of the Pines Music with another potential student. This will make 3 at LOTP (4 starting in November) and 20 at Music And More.
It’s starting to feel like a real business and that feels great!
Dulcimer Build
Now that the Bluegrass Festival is done I need to get back to work on the dulcimer I’m building.
I finished the fabrication on the fretboard today. The fret slots are all cut.
And the underside of the fretboard is hollowed out to make it more resonate:
although with the grain of the bocote it’s hard to see that the fretboard is hollow.
AND SPEAKING OF GRAIN!
I wiped some alcohol on the wood to show what it will look like with some finish on it.
Check out the grain on this fretboard:
And here’s the view of the side of the fretboard:
Then I routed out all the binding channels and installed the first binding edge
This is the first instrument I’ve made where I bent the binding at the same time as the sides. The fit of the binding is so perfect. It really makes binding the edge much easier.
OK, enough of this computer stuff. Time to get back to work.
See ya!
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