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Jack Daniel's Old No. 7 Brand Double Jack

Old No. 7 Brand “Double-Jack” Tenor/Bass Gitty
Got a bottle of “Jack” for Christmas… I immediately got an idea for a new build, but as you can see I had to do a lot of “research” while doing the design phase!
This build is my third attempt using this design… I had my first “accident” ever, in over fifty five years of woodworking, attempting this build! Lesson learned: Never use a router bit in your drill press for thickness planing! Purchase the Stew Mac Safety Planer for your drill press instead and save your fingers.
I’ll try and cover the majority of what went into this build. But if I miss anything please don’t hesitate to contact me.
All of the parts, with the exception of the “Cherub GT6 G-Tone”, were purchased from CB Gitty Crafter Supply (many thanks again Ben!).
The Jack Daniel’s tin boxes are lined with poplar. The through body necks are maple. Tenor fret-board is CB Gitty Peruvian walnut. Bass fretless finger-board is red oak. .The finish is a combination of Ebony coloured (colored) Aniline dye and high gloss lacquer. The fret markers were cut from 1/4” aluminum round rod. Bass fretless frets were applied using a silver-metallic Sharpie marker pen. The x-connector bars were cut from 1” square aluminum tubing.
I made the wiring harness using a uke rod piezo for the tenor and a 3-pole rod piezo for the bass wired in parallel (I was going to use a 3-way switch to select each gitty individually, but saw a Shane Speal video clip and decided to keep both gittys active at the same time. (Thanks Shane!)).
The wiring harness is connected to the Cherub GT6 G-Tone “gizmo” with a 3mm mono plug. This teeny weeny electronic device is wayyyyyy more than a pre-amp. It is a formidable little thing with tuner, pre-amp, 3-way equalizer, reverb, delay, chorus, wide and phase functions that puts out as much “hoop” as my 100 watt Fender twin reverb tube amp. I purchased it from TomTop.com for US$25. I built a similar pedal board 20 years ago at a cost of US$1,000! I paid $850 Canadian Loonies (2-bit US buck) for the Fender amp!
I am really proud of this build. On a skill level of 1-to-10 I’d say it was a 12. Most people shouldn’t attempt this type of activity without more sober, non-euphoric and responsible adult supervision. I strongly believe my next build will be based on beer “research”.
Gotta go. Gotta date with the kegerator in my man cave.
Rock on!
Gittys by George

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Comment by the anonymous pick on May 15, 2016 at 12:45pm: ;-)

Comment by AGP # on May 15, 2016 at 12:40pm: "Thanx the anonymous pick", I deserve a slap on the fingers for not viewing in full size, something I normally do!!

Comment by the anonymous pick on May 14, 2016 at 5:19pm: anyone can see it in full glory if they click "view full size " in bottom right corner .

Comment by George McLeod on May 14, 2016 at 5:14pm: Thanks AGP! Ya the pics look a bit stretched outta shape... depends on your web browser.

Love your work man!!!

Comment by AGP # on May 14, 2016 at 12:13pm: Mmmmmmmmm, Whiskey, I can certainly agree with the doing a lot of "research" comment, there's a lot going on with this beautiful build, would love to hear it ?, interesting to see the box's are lined with timber, I have thought in the past to do that with some of my Biscuit Tin etc.builds, but never got around to it.

Love the Head Stock designs, and at the risk of sounding critical, (which I don't mean to be) I don't know if its the photo angle or not, but they do seem a little bit large and out of proportion with the rest of the build, but again that's just my view on what it is, a very very nice build!!!!,

Comment by the anonymous pick on May 13, 2016 at 6:30pm: glad to hear it bud , thanx ;-)

Comment by George McLeod on May 13, 2016 at 6:10pm: Thanks Pick!!! Much appreciated. You have really inspired me man over the past few years. This build (pardon the pun) really got me outta the box.