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ChickenboneJohn, could I also ask where you get your decorative soundhole covers? I saw a
beautiful one in one of your oil can guitar photos and was wondering if you cut it yourself, or ordered it from someplace.
Check out your computer supplier for fan covers...
Well, here it is. My very first homemade guitar. I'll post a step-by-step chronicle of how I made it in the next week or so. Then you can see up-close what a piece of @$#%&! this thing actually is. Definitely a learning experience. But, it was a fun challenge, and the thing actually works! Sure, the scale is off, the action of the strings is about half-an-inch in the air, the neck is as thick as a tree trunk, and the oil can is too front-heavy to keep from tipping over, but it works! Thanks a million to Chickenbone John for advice and inspiration! Maybe next time I'll get it right.
Er... yep, that's pretty much exactly what I did. Live and learn. Here are some other hairbrained things I did: • Headstock and neck are two separate pieces cut at a bevel and joined together with dowels and glue. Did this because I wanted to angle the headstock back slightly but didn't have the means to steam-bend the lumber, and just plain didn't know any better. And yes, it's already broken beyond reasonable repair. • Fretted fingerboard actually consists of one continuous length of steel wire wrapped around a 1/4" thick board affixed to the neck with wood screws (take another look at those "inlay dots"). Got the idea from Charles Neville's "Uncle Bob" guitars at CyberFeral.com but opted for steel wire instead of nylon fishing line. Resulting frets are elevated, uneven and a bit uncomfortable. And the Philips-head "dots" tend to snag the strings, of course...unless you've done something monolithic and the bridge posts are fixed into the same single piece of timber that forms the neck.
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