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3 String Electric Wood Spoon

Electric Slide 3 String Guitar made from Wooden Spoon, Dental Floss

Converted 3 string electric/acoustic resonator slide guitar spoon. Beechwood body serving spoon designed and manufactured by Kikkerland. Handwash only. String scale is 7 ¾ inches nut to saddle.

Resonator is repurposed and adapted from the end of discarded paper towel dispenser. Spring mounted inside resonator to create reverb through direct transduction is from a discarded ballpoint pen.

Strings are hand wound J&J waxed dental floss (unflavored to reduce tone decay).

Tuning pegs are drilled copper shaker box tacks. Nut and saddle carved from Corian countertop scraps. Tuning is currently G D G although it tends to go out of tune when played forcefully.

Piezo disk pickup is from CB Gitty and is encased in foam tape inside resonator. I/4 inch output jack is suported by

modified cigar box wood insert.

Demo is played through Micro Cube with a bit of reverb. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynmtcj4L35k)

Sounds nothing like a resonator guitar but is somewhat playable and has decent tone if you like that sort of thing. ;)

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Comment by JL on June 29, 2016 at 2:03am: sheer genius!!!

Comment by Primitive Acoustics on June 28, 2016 at 5:51am: Thanks much for taking a look at this project! This is what the guitar loks like today.

Comment by Primitive Acoustics on November 2, 2015 at 11:47am: Thanks Antony! I've steampunked it up since then.

Comment by Antony Moggridge on November 2, 2015 at 8:09am: Brilliant.

Comment by Primitive Acoustics on May 24, 2014 at 3:18am: WayFinder and David C., Thanks for your comments and taking a look!

Comment by David Comtois on May 23, 2014 at 9:33am: Brilliant!

Comment by Primitive Acoustics on May 21, 2014 at 12:45pm: Marcus, thank you very much. Meant to put a smile on people's faces.

Comment by Marcus Darwell on May 21, 2014 at 5:51am: Tom: you just made my day! That is about as cool as things can get.....and it sounds darn good. A git built for a leprachaun :-)