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Comment by ProfWaldo on January 29, 2011 at 7:03am

ENTRY #16

Ta' hell with where's Waldo...where's the instrument ?

I know it's in there somewhere...

 

Comment by beStillroy on January 28, 2011 at 2:55pm

ENTRY #15

 Witch's Diddley

 

Comment by Ken Gaffney on January 26, 2011 at 9:14am

ENTRY #13

Made this from a ammo box, a neck with a broken truss rod, some spare bits and bobs. Took the strings off my strat which Id like to call recycling.

Comment by Astrochimp on January 21, 2011 at 10:14am

ENTRY #12

What I did at work today.

I built this, using only scrap from my shop. I am the maintenance technician at a printing factory.

I guess total time was less than 1 hr, but I worked on it off and on as I had free time one day.

I think every part would have been available at least by the early 1900's.

 

Body/Neck wood is printers 'furniture'. I used it as is, no cuts, no sanding, I didn't even clean it. I think it is pear wood.

Tuners are thumb screws I drilled a hole in.

Nut and bridge are cut off bolts.

For strings I used 'sticher' or bookbinder wire. (We used to use it to make the calendars you stuck on the dash of your car.)

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Scale length is ~ 24-1/2"

Both strings are tuned the same, G (3rd string) I tuned till the string tension worked. They are about the size of a high E string.

 

It is played like a lap steel, loud enough you can hear it, quieter than normal talking voice.

 

Parts list

Wood-     printers furniture #160  26-1/2" x 1-5/8" x 5/8"

Tuners-    #10 thumb screw ~ 1" long with hole drilled, 2- flat washers, 1 nut (for each)

Nut-         body of 3/8 bolt cut to width of neck

Bridge-     body of 1/4" bolt cut to width of neck

Can-        2" x 2-1/2" old heavy tin can, holes punched to pass string, #10 bolt cut to width of can

Extras-    3 small nails to hold can in place.

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Hard to show it in 2 photos, more here- http://s185.photobucket.com/albums/x119/Astrochimp_photo/Guitars/

Comment by Liam Stirling on January 17, 2011 at 5:13pm

ENTRY #11

I present to you a Diatonic scale, mechanically keyed instrument capable of playing 1 octave on a single melody string with 2 accompanying drone strings.
Inspired by the  Swedish Nyckelharpa I built this, well I'm not sure what to call it so we'll just say "Thing", from can of lacquer stripper, a few bits of aluminum I got from an old chain link fence, and well weathered Hickory reaped from an old ladder I literally dug up. I strung it up with some fishing line I found at the pier and made a completely ugly, though surprisingly good sounding instrument. It's played by strumming the strings and pressing the keys along the neck which have Tangents that line up with where frets would be placed on a more typical neck. The sound is very much like that of a Ukulele.

Comment by Gage Pulsifer on January 17, 2011 at 10:32am

ENTRY #10

This is my handmade lapsteel guitar. The body is made from a nice piece of purple heart that I had left over from a different project. It gives the guitar a nice unique look. The fret board was made from a piece of oak paneling that I took from an old cabinet. The markings were made using some old model paint. The bridge and slide are made out of left over copper pipe. The strings were old ones taken off another of my guitars. The nut is a cut piece of L bar. My favorite part of this build was the tuning machines. I set some nuts into the wood and put some thumbscrews in place. You need some pliers to actually get them turning, but hey it works!

Comment by Bill Jehle on January 15, 2011 at 10:17am

ENTRY #9

When the members of U2 crashed their tour bus into a 1972 VW Bug, all of their equipment was damaged. Lucky for the Edge, MacGyver survived the accident and thinking quickly cobbled this cigar box contraption together from parts of his 1972 Beetle.

 

Hubcap resonator, VW emblem covering the soundhole, 2-point seat belt used for a strap (it's even adjustable), fork tailpiece (stolen from the pizza place last night), mixed used mandolin strings and one guitar string, cigar box (gift from a friend at work), and an ancient banjo neck that I had to epoxy back together, and tuners reused from a crappy ukulele I secured on a Hawaiian vacation back in 1985 (I stole this one too).

 

Not the brightest sounding thing, and it could use a pickup to make it louder. Total cost... ZERO (and that's because I'm a clepto).

 

Comment by roy gilbert on January 15, 2011 at 5:36am

ENTRY #8 (CONTINUED)

 

Comment by roy gilbert on January 15, 2011 at 5:17am

ENTRY #8

 

This build was inspired by a gift of the dice from Las Vegas from a Pawleys island musician whose father was a gunsmith and civil war nut.  The trigger guard was hand made by him and the octagon gun barrel was pulled from his junk box.  The neck is off an 12 string wreck that we cut down to a 6.the pickguard is made out of poured epoxy ..the dice made perfect volume and tone knobs....All good "Gamblers " always hide a 4th Ace and this one is in the cigar box by the "business end of the gun barrel...By the way it sounds GREAT!!

 

Comment by David Davies on January 14, 2011 at 10:54am

ENTRY #7 (CONTINUED)

 

Sorry forgot the other pic of the parts. Ignore the transformer decided not to use it last minute

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