I thought I would do a series of posts about guitars I have built that have a story to share.
Eric Von Zipper……
The story here is about the build not the owner, although the owner is me. This guitar has gone through several guises over the past months. It started out with springs inside, I wanted to find out what difference they made to the overall sound.
I tried a few combinations and decided that springs did not add that much, if anything, to this guitar. I even installed a dampener system inside that I could operate from the outside and an access panel in the back, as part of the testing procedure. I abandoned that idea and removed the springs.
Then I thought I would add sympathetic strings inside instead, with their own tuners outside. Same result as with the springs.
Disappointing, and a whole lot of extra work for not much gain. So, third time lucky, I dressed the box up a bit removed all the spring and string paraphernalia, fitted a strip piezo pickup, now I’m happy.
Photos should tell the story.
Taff
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Nice pictoral series. That is a real zipper! Great looking shell tail piece.
Thanks UJ, the tailpiece is a small spoon from the past. I found it whilst walking the dog through the old gold fields around my place. I found an 1873 coin the other week.
Taff
Good finds, Taffy.
Speaking of tail pieces, a lady from church just dropped off a First Act six string for me to go over. Cheap and not good brand.
The bridge is WAY pulled up. I will see if I have a store bought tail piece or if I can make one. That has worked as an easy fix for me in the past. Oh, the church does Christmas gifts for a nursing home and one resident wanted a guitar. I don't know yet if can play or not.
On one recent walk, two little neighbor boys went with us. They walked the edge of a harvested soy bean field and found a very old 8 ounce Coke bottle.
No gold mines around here, but there were several coal mines in the area back in the day. Pre 1930s, I think. One was worked by all black miners. There might be some good things to find around the old mine areas. I've heard the old outhouse pits have some good shit. Bottles and such.
Yup. Same idea except I may have a used metal tail piece or make one out of scrap metal.
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