30th July 2016
Another Clean Up, Maintenance and Modification Project
This was an attempt some years back to build a Japanese Kankara Sanshin. Couldn’t find much info on dimensions etc, for this build, so just winged it, found out the scale length is somewhere between 600mm and 1000mm so went halfway with 800mm, BUT!, basically the final result was a “DUD”.
AGP #245 – “Sanshin Fail”
3 String Fretless Roasting Pan Baritone Guitar
Scale: 800mm / 31½ inches
Strings: .052NW .036NW .026NW
Tuned: D A d
Original Build 28th July 2016: 9” x 9” x 2” Steel Roasting Pan, Tallow Wood Neck, Spruce Pine Headstock Wings, Spotted Gum Tuning Pegs, Timbers were coated a French Furniture Polish, No Pickup, Strings: Small Sanxian Steel-Copper & Nylon, Tuned G D g
Modified Build 22nd June 2022: 9” x 9” x 2” Steel Roasting Pan Wire Brushed, Heated & Quenched with WD40 & Sprayed with Clear Gloss Enamel, Tallow Wood Neck, Spruce Pine Headstock Wings coated with Tung Oil, 6.2k Single Coil Pickup, Wired Through a Tone Pot to the Output Jack, Chrome Machine Heads. :-)