I made this for my son as said in the solid guitar post.
plugged it all in and she sound lovely,I've not tuned it, just by ear.
I'll let him do that.
I'm quite pleased with the results.
to get the pickup installed I just cut a grove into the neck from where the pick up to the bridge.
if you want more info on how I did it I'll post before pictures etc.
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as discuss in here...http://www.cigarboxnation.com/forum/topics/solid-guitar-pictures
and here I did the pick up etc...
That turned out brilliant, John. The skeleton hands rock...as much as Elmar's flatpup does too.
lookin mighty fine .
Beautiful! Been thinking about doing a similar build....
just realize that some of the frets aren't in right.
so I'm going have to take them all out.
I had a feeling that s/steel is a bad idea.
so I'm going to buy some new nickle frets probably from chickenbone johnny!
When you say the frets aren't in right, do you mean they are in the wrong place?
they're in the right place but not seat properly and looks as they are twisted a little bit.
straight then about a 1/4" from the end a slight twist.
not sure how I'm going to rectify that with them being s/steel.
had a chance to check the sound and notice some didn't sound quite right on the 1st string(bottom looking down)and I notice that some are not right as stated above.
this all learning process here for me.
Did you make sure that the slot is deep enough and that the tang on the fret wire is not bottoming out?
good point Dan.
I'll check it later.
You only need to be a couple of thousands of an inch too shallow and it will cause problems. Better a little too deep than too shallow.
That is really beautiful!
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