Musician and Appalachian Mountain Dulcimer Maker
Posted in Dulcimer, Hammered Dulcimer, Lutherie, Music on Jul 31st, 2009
I find instrument making and playing to be intimately linked together. I enjoy doing both equally. Sometimes I lean more one way than the other for a while but the focus always swings back and forth and more or less balances itself out.
I also find myself focused on different instruments as well and the same [...]
At times like this I wish I had paid more attention during French class in high school.
Their are lots of badly scanned yet wonderful images of instruments of the violin family and the tools and methods of making them.
You can download your own free copy courtesy of Google Books: L’art du luthier by Auguste Tolbecque
Posted in Dulcimer, Friends, Fun, Hammered Dulcimer on Jul 23rd, 2009
I’m starting to pack for a road trip. I’ll be setting up a booth and showing my dulcimers at The Cranberry Dulcimer and Autoharp Gathering near Syracuse, NY. I’ll also be offering a hammered dulcimer workshop. The last time I played at this festival was in the late 1980’s or the early 1990’s. Should be [...]
Perhaps a better title for this post would be “I Do Better Work When Tools Are Sharp!”
The other day I found myself enjoying working at the bench less that I usually do. I was having a hard time clamping a dulcimer firmly enough to the bench so that I could plane the fingerboard flat.
At that [...]
Sandpaper is an amazing and versatile tool. With sandpaper I can round edges, sculpt smooth, curved surfaces and fix the occaisional “oops” left behind by an edge tool.
Sandpaper also is great when prepping for finishing. It has set the modern standard of what people expect a surface to look like, for better or for worse.
There [...]
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