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Permalink Reply by Matt on February 1, 2014 at 4:11pm

Couple more pics...

I've actually build one like this before, but it had a real twangy, almost banjo like sound.  This one is really mellow sounding.  I really don't want to give it up, but I don't have time to build another...

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Permalink Reply by robert jones on February 2, 2014 at 2:29am

Oh hell, that could get you arrested in some places...cool build.

The thing just begs to have a biscuit with under saddle piezo bridge.

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Permalink Reply by the anonymous pick on February 2, 2014 at 3:17am

woulda  been  cool as a stomp  box  too  ;-)

 

even  better as a suprize   gift   ;-)

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Permalink Reply by robert jones on February 2, 2014 at 3:27am

Hehe...picture it...local park...sunny afternoon...families with dogs and children running amok...guy playing this thing...cop with former military training in EOD catches a glance of the instrument...instant "Stop or I'll shoot" moment occurs...hilarity ensues.

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Permalink Reply by Ron "Oily" Sprague on February 2, 2014 at 3:43am

Hurt Locker time...

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Permalink Reply by Matt on February 2, 2014 at 5:19am

And that's the reason I ain't gonna be playing it at the local park!
I'd love to put a pickup in it, but is made of such a lightweight, almost fragile plastic I'm scared to put too much on it. Of course, I can't open it, which makes it all the more difficult to build support for a pickup.
I've got two more of these bodies-local army surplus saw what I was doing with cigar boxes, and gave me a dummy, so I built a guitar for them and traded it for three more dummies. This one is a lot nicer and better sounding than the first one...but I've learned a lot since then.
Danged bridge is really too tall, and the strings are really too far off the neck down near the body, but since it's build for a slide, figure it's a even trade, 'cause it rings real nice...I'm hoping it does well for the fellers it's going to.

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Permalink Reply by robert jones on February 2, 2014 at 6:37am

A bridge with embedded piezo rod pickup would work, get one intended for a resonator guitar.

You could make scarf joint where the neck joins the body to get a better angle and action. It would take a little figuring but it's totally doable.

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Permalink Reply by Reeds Taylor on February 2, 2014 at 6:14am

eeek! or yum yum?

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