Bluesheart

Hmmmm, I thought you and I were already on the friends list. Heh. Oh well, greets!

-WY

Well most certainly thank you! I will be looking at your photos to see what improvements and new solutions you have as well [grin].

Oh and I will send the Irish song PDF. Is there an email address I can send to OR would you prefer a web link?

-Wes

I posted few photos of my lapsteel project, it's not as beautifull as your's but.....!

Do you build the neck, or buy it ??

Sorry to ask that, buit ireally don't know how to build a neck like that, and in the "french shop", we only sell 3 or 4 fretless boxes !!!

Ok ouahhh are you a stringed-instrument maker, or a joiner, cause personaly i really don't know the wood work as well, and don't have the tools to do that!!

It's really a verry beautifull work you did !!

( i practice my english, hope you understand me well !! )

Thanks for trying french, the translation is verry understandable, but french is a verry complicated, and full of nuances languages ( like every latin languages ), so like with all web's translators it's never perfect !!!

But nevermind, i want to ask tou something else about the neck building, but i really don't know the english word because it's a "lutherie word", and i don't find a good translation !!I

I will find a good one, and ask you later !! (hope i don't bowser you !!!)

Bruce,

  Good answer on what you like in cbgs.  Humble origins and your diddley can qualify as humble, but Papillon, Undertaker and Bluesburger are works of art and not too humble!    

    Saw a big old, bearded greying guy with a pony tail last week and he looked a lot like your photos.  I immediately thought, 'Bluesheart.'

   I love my humble relic players, but part of this may be that I always screw something up when I try to make em' fancy. 

   I've been to 6 or so open mikes and I am getting less nervous.  May try a new one soon.  :)

Thanks Bluesheart that is a nice compliment. I always dig your builds.

I have a box from the same cigar line as your undertaker. I was thinking on dark black neck and fingerboard, I might have to look into that ebony stain.

take care man

hey Blues hope your keeping well mate ?

just wanted to stop by and say thanks for the comments on the latest Plank builds your comments are always much apprecieated

cheers mate i just checked out your Pappillon Blues video .. good stuff mate you did good :)

juju :)

Bruce, 

  Thanks for your comments on the banjo conversion and ammo box builds.   The ammo box sounds good.  Not metallic sounding - somehow more woody.  I did make a short demo video that demos the sound.

   John

thx Bluesheart !! for your all comments!!!!

welcome in the DELBARJO world ^^ ;)

thx for yours comments^^

Hi Bluesheart,

I suspect the canjo drawing (plans) you are talking about belong to Wes Carl, and I stole them plus a couple others (and drew my own) and put them up on CBN so they would be available for everyone to use. I doubt that Wes Carl would have any problem with you using them, and I have no problem with you using any of the material I put up on CBN.

-Rand.

Bruce,  thanks for your recent comments on my videos and photos. 

Got a story for you.  I needed a harp harness.  I read reviews on Musicians Friend for a Hohner harness.   Most said it worked well, but the plastic on the  metal smelled funny.

I got one.  Works great.  Comfy.  Stays where it is adjusted.  Smells like piss.  That ain't funny, but I can tolerate it.  Now if I can get better at cross harp....

I Thank you Bluesheart.

Eugenio Jaimez

Bluesheart,

Again I thank you regarding the Box Kora.

Eugenio Jaimez

Hey Bluesheart, thanks for the friend request - I've been putting off making a suitcase drum because I have no drum pedal, but now I have no excuses. Very ingenius!

hi bluesheart did you get any comments on router eating jigs? i could dig any ideas you or nation comes up with then i mite make some jigs, i have a 11/2 hp. router big and large theeth very unruley havent used it yet hopeing a garage sale or goodwill auction will come up with some bits they do come up sometimes goodwill is a great place for instruments iv bought a 6 dollar guitar 13.5 bout solid spruce top a great player that was the long winded way to say ck. out goodwill and theres always about 200 guits on auction at all times im getting a violin they run 35.00 on up and ill use a 25.5 scale just because i love the woods on them. tons of electrics for many parts pots machine heads, pups. Also nice to say hi havent in a while, glad to see your still addicted, and thats the first time i ever said that hope to hear from you soon one last thing find the goodwill in your area shipping is nuts oh no just thought are you across the pond? well have fun Slim

cool tou know theres listings across the states shipping is up to 15.00 they get so many for me i wanted old and spruce and oak the old ones were hitting 60 and more and 1 i was lookin at figured out of reach and edded up10 less than i bought i want to go magnetic so i will be makeing some odd tools should you decide to do 1 1 day ill help you out it looks like a cake walk ill scarf neck to length with strat head 4 string you with tools easier than makeing them just shipping know the stratavarious this will be my version then taper fretboard and it will be sweet and simple i cant wait i hate 16 mm pots but in sure it all if at all will go through f holes glad i know a machinest well sorry for blowin up your ear ans its my pleasure to be a friend, Slim

Thanks for the comment.The binding is 2mm maple glued to 5mm purplewood then strips cut off the edge

Thanks for the comment.....visual copies those heads, mirrored to use up a pack of six tuners. One of these Punch Boxes will show up in Hampton Beach up near you, tell him you know where he got it. Everything I have here is a mix of things that catch my eye or something that makes sense. I haven't picked up on my own building style but it's coming. I favor the afternoon cookie tins and amps, lots of fun .... I love to tinker with the stuff.

Hello buesheart, thank you for your cmpliments I will add other pics and video soon,you canvisit my swebsite here http://www.blues-guitares.fr

Joel

The headstock shape is a mistake. It was intended to be three a side but I bought a set of tuners at a guitar show, not realising they were six in line.

As for the fretboard, yes I have had to recut the fret slots, didn't cut them deep enough in the first place. This is the first curved fretboard I've done so next time it'll be right first time

The headstock is a mistake, it was meant to be three a side but I bought a set of tuners at a guitar show only finding they were six in line when I got them home.

Yes I did need to cut the fret slots deeper. This is my first curved fretboard so next time I'll do it right first time

Third time lucky ?

The headstock was a mistake, It was meant to be three a side but I bought a set of tuners at a guitar show not realising they were six in line until I got them home

Bluesheart,

After you left a comment on some of my photos I looked you up. I really like your style!

Apparently you are a fellow Blues Harp musician. I've been playing harp for around 30 years or so. This CBG thing just happened to me in the last 5 years or so. Even tho my 3 brothers and my son all play guitar, I never had the desire to learn to play a stringed instrument until I built one!

Thanks for the nice comments! look forward to getting to know you.

Chuck