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Permalink Reply by The Phrygian Kid on November 10, 2015 at 9:02am

Don't glue it !!

There is a lot of good info around, see this thread here http://www.cigarboxnation.com/forum/topics/tin-box-attaching-the-ne...

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Permalink Reply by ChickenboneJohn on November 10, 2015 at 6:25pm

If I have to use glue, I use Araldite, the regular stuff, not the rapid setting type, and I clean the tin with Wurth clutch cleaner to make sure there's no grease or residue. Having said that, I much prefer to rely on a mechanical fixing if I can (or supplement the glue with a screw fixing to clamp it together) , but it does depend on the construction you are using of course.

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Permalink Reply by john mackay on November 11, 2015 at 5:35am

thanks for the replies.

I just bought this tin the other week ,so this will be my next project.

the tin is quite deep so I should get a nice sound out of it.

thinking of using a piezo instead of a single coil as I don't want to cut the face of the tin.

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Permalink Reply by Greg Thompson on November 11, 2015 at 6:31am

What a great tin!!! I love Wallace and Gromit!
When performing, consider wearing mechanical pants. :))

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Permalink Reply by The Phrygian Kid on November 11, 2015 at 10:36am

Yes nice tin john. Do me a favour and read that thread I linked you from 2010 right through, there's step by step instructions I did on page 3 or so of the comments + discussion about how I electrify tins, been doing em that way for quite a while now with great results mate

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Permalink Reply by john mackay on November 12, 2015 at 8:44am

I've read it Kid. I do have some pickups so I'll try what you did.

having another look at the tin I don't think I'll need any wood on the inside.

once I've got my work out of the way I'll start on it.

the tin only cost me less than 5 uk pounds and with biscuits in it to.

I could of bought this tin as well but decided 1 is enough.

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Permalink Reply by john mackay on November 19, 2015 at 8:10am

can this be done to a wooden box. I've put the tin away as I started on the wrong neck.

I wanted to use that on a wooden box.

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Permalink Reply by The Phrygian Kid on November 20, 2015 at 2:02am

Yes, easily. Just glue a small ferrous scrap on the inside of the soundboard above the pickup. This scrap ought be of very little mass so as to avoid altering the way that the soundboard sings. (String clippings are perfect) a wooden soundboard will sound like wood, a rawhide banjo head like a rawhide banjo head etc. simple.

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Permalink Reply by The Phrygian Kid on November 20, 2015 at 1:58am

1. As I said in there back in 2010, I ripped it off from Shane and teds licence plate stomper, although I am the first to my knowledge to string it up, there may easily be others who did this before me, it's pretty simple when you think about it.
2. If you take a thin pickup like dans or Elmars or yours (or mine, see 'stickup') you can stick it anywhere on a tin guitar (on the outside that is) and it'll work. It might be under the strings or it might not. So it might be all the tin that you hear or it might be tin + strings directly. In fact anybody who ever stuck a regular coil pickup on a tin guitar in the regular fashion has experienced this sound because that pickup does 'pickup' the top singing as well as the strings.
3. There have been plenty of people on this site who have tried this setup and not liked it. I can't completely explain that, I love it and so have the many many people I've sold or given one to. It does result in a very 'live' sounding instrument, every bump and scape comes through. In fact you can sing at it and it's microphonic. I love that, there's music in that stuff. Wait til you try drumming on an open tuned one, you can get awesome droning raga beats real easy just beating on different parts of the neck with a couple of drumsticks. I can see that a less confident player may hear every mistake loud and clear but well that's what's makes you better imho.

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Permalink Reply by Stuart Baldwin on November 21, 2015 at 12:35pm

I've used a home made single pole pickup underneath a tin lid resonator - seems to work ok but I could do with making the gap adjustable without having to take the guitar apart.

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Permalink Reply by darryl kernaghan on November 12, 2015 at 12:56pm

I've been watching this thread John ,and wasn't quite sure what you were asking,i thought you were looking for ways to stiffen the top against string compression,but if not ,i definitely wouldn't be gluing the neck to the tin,as P Kid shows,just fold back your openings and screw it,you stiffen the tin and easily pulled apart if needed

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Permalink Reply by john mackay on November 13, 2015 at 3:10am

just gluing the wood to the sides to give the tin strength but not doing it now. the neck I have no problem.

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