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Who doesn't love getting a guitar for Christmas?
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My wife custom ordered this for me last year, but I wasn't allowed to touch it till Christmas. There are no electrics (yet), and no route for pickup or knobs as I want to try a few crazy things with this guitar.
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Curiousity is killing the cat? Can you give us some hints as to what you have got planned for this build Andy?
Cheers, Waz
The neck looks straight, and has a really good, tight fit in the body. I can lift the whole guitar from the neck without movement. Not everything is perfect, but I will enjoy the challenge of trying to fix what can be fixed, and trying to hide the rest.
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The fret dots on the side of the neck are far from straight. 12 th fret markers show because they are so close together and the 19th fret marker is almost touching the front of the neck. I'm thinking of scrounging some fretboard wood from somewhere on the guitar (rounding the ends off?) and using it to cover the worst of these.
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There is a bit of a gap on the heel, but nothing I shouldn't be able to fix, and it may come in handy.
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The plastic nut is sitting on top of the fretboard wood. I'll fix this when I get a bone nut replacement.
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For those thinking of building one of these for acoustic playing, you may want to rethink your plans. The soundboard is supported by a block of wood from back to front, instead of tone bars like most full hollow-body arch tops. This is probably to stop the feedback usually produced in these guitars. Having said that, tapping the top sounds ok. It would probably sound fine if all you want is to practice while the kids sleep in the next room.
It's companion on the bench?
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I need a guitar prop for Comicon 2017. The requirements state it must be soft, so it's being carved out of foam
Score for Xmas Andrew!
they are surprising loud acoustically Andrew, you might be in for a pleasant surprise :D
Tone foam?
Andy40: It is a great present. Dedman: I'm planning on an archtop scratchie a few years in the future, I'm going to attempt to replace the block with tone bars. There are a few other things I need to do while it's open anyway.
Weirdy: mattress foam. Full scale body, slightly shorter neck (because the mattress was too short)
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Nice looking kit Andrew. I had the tone foam out today...Quote:
Originally Posted by WeirdBits
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That's just lazy Ponch, what's wrong with palm or finger muting.Quote:
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I always pulled the fixed mute out of my basses so I had the unmuted ringing string option
Should add, nice looking JB