Totally unrelated to cigars

I just finished building this mountain dulcimer and shipped it to my client today. Now I can get back to building myself a guitar.

http://www.brouelette.com/blog/images/kassdulc1.jpg
http://www.brouelette.com/blog/images/kassdulc2.jpg
http://www.brouelette.com/blog/images/kassdulc3.jpg
http://www.brouelette.com/blog/images/kassdulc4.jpg
http://www.brouelette.com/blog/images/kassdulc5.jpg

Actually, now that's it's shipped, maybe I should celebrate with a cigar. Yeah, that sounds like a good idea.

That is awesome!!! Looks like a woman's figure on the back - absolutely incredible...

You should smoke a cigar! You deserve it!!! :smiley20:

Wow, I love that wood-grain. So you built that all by hand?

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Originally Posted by ggiese

That is awesome!!! Looks like a woman's figure on the back - absolutely incredible...

You should smoke a cigar! You deserve it!!! :smiley20:

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heh, just noticed that...maybe that is my subconscious telling me something.:smiley4:

HEY ! You cheated him out of some strings !

Now all he can do is tune to drop D and play some dimenished chords.
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Damn nice job...:smiley37:

I'd like to hear that thing, or one like it!!!!

Nice work. Just don't start makin' clocks and lamps! :smiley4:

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Originally Posted by Shagaroo

Nice work. Just don't start makin' clocks and lamps! :smiley4:

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I think the same people who pay for cigar-clocks are paying the dealership $250 to change the bulb in their headlights.

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Originally Posted by drew_goring

I think the same people who pay for cigar-clocks are paying the dealership $250 to change the bulb in their headlights.

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:smiley20: :smiley4:

That is beautiful. Makes me want to take up playing the dulcimer.

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Originally Posted by Shagaroo

Nice work. Just don't start makin' clocks and lamps! :smiley4:

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There's money to be made in clocks and lamps!!! http://www.cigarsnobs.com/forum/styl...ault/Jumpy.gif

...and I'll be your manager... :smiley41:

Damn, thats real nice!:smiley20: Out of curiosity, what do you charge to build a guitar or other stringed instrument? PM me.

That is sweet!! :smiley32: I agree, you need to smoke a celabratory cigar!

Absolutely beautiful.

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Originally Posted by Cabaiguan Juan

Damn, thats real nice!:smiley20: Out of curiosity, what do you charge to build a guitar or other stringed instrument? PM me.

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Well, I have the prices up on my website at www.gbguitars.com But I've decided not to take any more jobs at the moment. I've been building instruments and teaching music for the past year and while it's been fun and relaxing, I'm not bringing in enough $$ to pay the bills.

So I'm now applying for computer software jobs again. That's going to really fill up my day. Also, I find that I get really stressed out by deadlines on lutherie jobs and every little mistake just tears me apart. So I decided that I'm going to finish off the instruments I'm making for myself and then just build some stuff on spec, meaning that I build what I want and then only put it up for sale when I'm done.

Here's the next project I need to finish
http://www.gbguitars.com/images/guitarbuild1.jpg