SANTA HAS BEEN BUSY IN HIS WORKSHOP THIS YEAR... AND WE WANNA SEE WHAT HE (YOU) BUILT!!! Win one of $1000 in prizes.
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GRAND PRIZE: $500 C. B. Gitty gift certificate!!! Enough to stock your guitar shop... Get the tools you need... Go nuts!
FIVE RUNNERS UP: $100 C. B. Gitty gift certificate each!!!
Winners chosen at random. All skill levels encouraged to enter!
We want to see photos of the instruments you made during the Holiday Season 2018...especially the stuff you made for others! Let's have some fun with this and post photos all over the internet featuring cigar box guitars, homemade instruments and all the DIY music creativity that comes with them.
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Let's see what came out of Santa's workshop this year! Post pics below with details on the build, who received it, etc.
Contest runs Dec. 21-31, 2018. Winner announced Jan. 4, 2018.
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This guitar was made for 2 ladies, who since childhood have always given their father a box of Quality Street Chocolates (A British Christmas classic). Their father is getting older and has now developed diabetes, so he can no longer eat chocolate. As he is a guitarist the two sisters asked me to make a guitar out of a Quality Street tin.
25 inch scale, Poplar neck, Sapele Fret boars , tunned D-F#-A-D
Hi, here's one just finished, it did not sell over Christmas but a cheaper model did.
It is built with a spring installation in mind, there is a removable panel in the back for access to the spring locating points. I have not found a spring that works as yet. Provision is available for up to 3 springs to be fitted.
On the bottom of the box can be seen the variable spring tensioner [through the spoon handle tailpiece] the knob [from an old Maton guitar] is the spring dampener control.
The whole box is pine neck is Tasmanian oak the fingerboard is hardwood. The top is very thin and responsive, which may do away with the need of a spring reverb system. This is due to the strings that are not being played vibrating sympathetically with the strings being plucked. This adds a fullness to the sound. Even plucking and stopping/muting the string will have the note still audible.
Any way here's my contribution.
Taff
Here's one for consideration.....
OK, so it's not for anyone but me, but this 6-string reso travel guitar started life as a scrap 12-string acoustic.
Having spent a long time in a friends (very damp) shed, I sat the body by a radiator for several months to dry out, before cutting sections out of the sides and back to re-use in the new project. I really liked the appalling state of the original lacquer, and so brushed off all the loose stuff before applying a coat of varnish to seal it all in again.
New purflings and end blocks were added, followed by a braced 1/16" ply top. The 7" resonator came from a UK supplier on Ebay. Ebay also provided the majority of the hardware - tuners, fret wire, on-board electrics, nut etc..
The neck is laminated around a double-action truss rod, and the majority of the shaping was taken care of by a small belt sander. The trapeze tail-piece uses half of a door hinge, some 3mm threaded rod and a drilled wooden slab to accept the ball ends of the strings.
Sound-wise, it's what you'd expect - a bit on the jangly side! It would be better tuned to an open chord and played with a slide, I guess, but I'm happy to thrash standard chords put of it as it is!
Tim
When is a dreadnought not a dreadnought?
When it's a Savart-Nought.
I named this trapezoidal, single-cone resonator after 18th century physicist Felix Savart. Ol' Felix was the inventor of (among other things) a flat-top, trapezoidal violin that was widely accepted by the snobby fiddle experts of his era. I was about halfway done building one, when I thought "Why not a trapezoidal resonator ala Savart?"
Scale: 25" scale • 15 frets to the body
Strings: 6 of ‘em
Body Size: 18” at base. 8” wide at heel. 3.75” deep
Total Instrument Length: Around 41"
Acoustic Gizmo: 9.5" resonator biscuit cone
Cone Cover: 1961 Falcon hubcap coated with silver metallic Rustoleum artistically mangled with my $9 Harbor Freight angle grinder
Tail Piece: 24-gauge steel lopped into shape with my HF angle grinder and coated with the aforementioned Rustoleum.
Amplification: Internal Piezo Pickup with volume and tone controls. Inset into neck stick and encased with enough rubber cement to dampen any handling noise.
Neck: Maple . . . and steel reinforced
String Height at Zero Fret: 1mm
String Height at 12: 4mm
Neck width at zero fret: 1 3/4"
Neck Width at body: 2 1/4"
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