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Another one of a kind electric dulcimer, Sequoia is made from a chunk of redwood burl that I split in half and hollowed out, but somewhat thickly so. Then I stabilized the burl with cyanoacrylate on the inside and fitted the halves back together with a walnut stripe in between. The strings are fitted into keyhole slots that are backed up on the inside with a brass plate. The front of the slots have ebony blocks set into them to keep the strings from wearing into the top. It makes for a more elegant than average string anchor as befits the nice hunk of redwood.
The redwood itself is salvage from a storm downed tree in California. The neck is a maple stripe surrounded by salvaged walnut that's about fifty years old. It's a neck thru arrangement that passes through the body shell to the rear end and is wedged between the top and back directly under the bridge so as to make it a well coupled unit. The fretboard is ebony with an abalone dot at the octave and pearl dots at the third and eleventh fret. There's a matching redwood headstock overlay and the volume and tone knobs are walnut topped with redwood.
The pickups are my usual custom Alnico V units setups so as to be humbucking when both are active.
It's pretty light for an electric so I have a hogring in the headstock ear and a gripper type strap button for a string or a strap.
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With the treble clear up it sounds like: A minute some on Sequoia Though less distorted in reality, my recording gear is a bit rudimentary. |
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