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Permalink Reply by the anonymous pick on April 27, 2016 at 3:20pm

Fred ..  call it  Fred .  ;-)

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Permalink Reply by Blues Frog on May 2, 2016 at 2:55pm

Wait, No! That's what I call my granddaughter.

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Permalink Reply by gary herget on April 27, 2016 at 4:05pm

If we could see it, could help you alot more. Some scratch built banjos are made similar to what you described.

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Permalink Reply by Fomhorach on April 28, 2016 at 5:05am

It's actually being called "pain in the ass" just now as it's taking far too long to carve. Problem is that it's going inside a thin metal box and I think I've shaped the bridge side tune head wrong to side through the 'yet to be cut' holes. Stupidly I thought it would be better headless to put the tuners down the bottom. I will persevere..

It breaks the point though..we are sometimes creating new "types" of instruments.. Well, unknown to me anyway.. So what do we call these things? 

We know a CBG typically has 3 strings with 25" scale length either fretless or headless. With the body of a cigar box type body. But because we're breaking all these rules with typical scale lengths, number of stings etc.. What are they? 

"It's guitars Jim, but not as we know them" - Benjamin Spock Franklin

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Permalink Reply by JL on April 29, 2016 at 3:29am

Titan AE and I'm taking the name FRED for my git/mandolin/chugger/fretted-viola/hybrid.

It's sort of a mutant blending of a lot of ideas, strangely cohesive in the results.

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Permalink Reply by the anonymous pick on April 29, 2016 at 4:16am

;-)

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Permalink Reply by Fomhorach on April 29, 2016 at 11:36am

Second life?

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Permalink Reply by gary sheldon on May 2, 2016 at 3:32am

Four string banjo?

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Permalink Reply by Blues Frog on May 2, 2016 at 3:06pm

The setup sounds like a 3 string banjo. That makes it a strange type of banjo, or stranjo.

Strangejo

stringjo

Fomhorach special?

OK so have a contest to name it. Winner gets nothing except the knowledge that they came up with the name. And maybe an autographed photo....

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Permalink Reply by JL on May 4, 2016 at 12:27am

So FRED is the little cousin to the Chimera?

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Permalink Reply by Fomhorach on May 4, 2016 at 6:44am

It's actually called binned. The bottom "head" wouldn't fit into the tin box without either heavy duty reshaping or cutting massive holes in the box. So it got put into the 'fail' cupboard until I figure out what box would better suit the design.

In the mean time I will build a simple 25" scale canukuthingy.

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Permalink Reply by JL on May 6, 2016 at 6:05am

just an idea I saw elsewhere, run 2 decent threaded rods through the tin, bolt a mounting block on each end of the threaded rods, then you can  "bolt-on" your headless neck to one and your tuner-tailpiece to the other.  no stress on the tin and nice neat little round holes.

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