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3 String Padron - Not quite finished after all...

Posted by Jon Pruett on February 21, 2010 at 9:04pm
Here's a close up of the "elevated fret" - since the string height is greater at the body, I'm splitting different sized dowels in half and attaching each fret to it's own little podium. This way I can individually tweak the string height at the fret. I'm planning to just lay in a blues scale, so 5 frets total. The plan is working well so far.
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  • Jon Pruett May 19, 2010 at 12:37am
    A combination of errors. :)

    Notched box too deeply which caused the neck to sit low.
    Neck mounted at slight angle.
    Thin cheap pine neck which bowed under string tension.

    Learned a lot from this build - and even with all it's faults, it still sounds great.
  • Outhouse Instruments May 18, 2010 at 9:14pm
    No rules ... so it's all good.
    I am wondering what caused it tho'. Didn't notch the neck for the soundboard enuff?

    Matt
  • Jon Pruett May 18, 2010 at 8:45pm
    I didn't know it was against the rules, so I did it anyway - and it worked out pretty well. Just another day of making lemonade with the pile lemons. :)
  • Dirty Dan Peel May 18, 2010 at 8:42pm
    Interesting set up. Never seen anything like it. But if it works...
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