AGP #306 - “Als Pal”
(4 String Aluminium Guitar)
Scale : 625.5mm / 24⅝inches
Strings : .032NW / .022NW / .017PS / .013PS /
Tuning: G / D / G / B /
The Body shape and size is of a Parlour Guitar dimensions, and obviously is made from Aluminium Checker Plate (rescued from a dumpster by one of my sons), the Old Lowe Cone was taken from a previous build (soon to be modified), the Neck is Grey Ironbark, the Fretboard is Forest Red Gum and a 6.1k Prewired Single Coil Pickup with Vol & Tone provides the noise, rushed to finish this one by Xmas Eve!, sounds fine, but still have a little bit of fine tuning to do ie; lower the string action and maybe fit with some heavier gauge strings. The weight of this one is identical to the Gal Roofing build “AGP #304” at 3.5kg. :-)

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Comment by Poor_Richard on January 9, 2018 at 7:27am

great looking guitar, i'm curious to how it sounds.

Comment by AGP # on January 1, 2018 at 7:41pm

"Thanks Maddog & Korrigan" for your comments, "much appreciated" :-D

Comment by Korrigan on January 1, 2018 at 8:12am

Don't know how I missed this one earlier, sorry for the delay but wow, nice work AGP that is really cool!

Comment by Maddog on January 1, 2018 at 6:02am

Beauty!!!

Comment by AGP # on December 27, 2017 at 8:35am

"Thanks Rob" for the positive comment  :-)

Comment by Rob (Uker) Porras on December 27, 2017 at 4:57am

Wow!!! That looks great

Comment by AGP # on December 25, 2017 at 1:37pm

"Thanks Derek", the sound hole shape was largely determined by what was the easiest type to cut without out a lot filing etc!  :-D

Comment by AGP # on December 25, 2017 at 1:34pm

"Thanks Erasmo", correct about the "Heavy Metal" description, just weighed my "Cheap Arse" store bought Telecaster to compare, and it came in at 3.7kg and I'm pretty sure the real Fender ones are heavier!  :-D

Comment by AGP # on December 25, 2017 at 1:12pm

"Thanks StorminSteve"  :-)

Comment by Derek Rose on December 25, 2017 at 12:16pm

Looks fantastic. Nice curves and I like the sound holes.

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