"Silvan" wrote in message
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wrote:

Pre slotted fret boards are cheap enough - and they're perfectly
slotted for both fretwire and nuts. Better to spend your time on nice
inlays for the fret board.

How many crafstman points would I lose for using a canned fret board?
They
really are quite cheap, seems to me. I forget what it added up to, but
pre-cut with frets installed and everything was less than $20, I think.
It
would save a lot of fiddly work that sounds easy to screw up.

Yes, it is. You could be the greatest Dulcimer builder in the world, and I
don't think anyone would notice how exact your Fret Slots were sawn, or the
fact that they were perfectly square (unless, of course, they weren't)



I don't remember if they offered options though. I'd want a full
chromatic
scale. Playing Dad's dulcimer drives me nuts because of all the missing
frets.

Yes, they do. You can get it with the "6 1/2 Fret" in order to be fully
chromatic. (it's halfway between the 6th and 7th frets)
Without it, you'd be missing the "Ti" (as in Do-Ray-Me-Fa.......etc)


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