This guitar is a 'bitzer', as it's made from bits and pieces left over from the other two builds. I made it for a bit of a laugh really, but it's actually very playable! The box was cobbled together from some sheet aluminium I had left over from my Fine Art days, and the neck was made of pine (risky, I know) and strips of mahogany. The neck is very slippy, and is reinforced with a hefty square steel truss-rod. The frets are very skinny, as I wanted to play slide without all the clattering of higher fret wire. I'd tried a fretless version for slide, but I found it had limited appeal for what I like to play. The knobs are some I made from polymer, as I couldn't get anything unusual to bung on it! I feel this is more in the spirit of cigarbox guitar, in that it is a sort of 'make do and mend' experiment.
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Hi John, Yes, the pine neck was an experiment, I had seen posts on here about the risks/successes with pine necks, and as I didn't want to spend any money on this, I just used bits of lumber I had kicking around. It worked well, and the solid truss rod will undoubtedly stop it going banana-shaped! It sounds fine, and just has one piezo transducer in it.
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I wish my spare parts fell together like that!!!
Hi John, Yes, the pine neck was an experiment, I had seen posts on here about the risks/successes with pine necks, and as I didn't want to spend any money on this, I just used bits of lumber I had kicking around. It worked well, and the solid truss rod will undoubtedly stop it going banana-shaped! It sounds fine, and just has one piezo transducer in it.
I've had good luck most of the time with pine necks and I think they sound better acoustic. I had one bow near a knot.
Very nice, man. Into the 9s on a 10 point scale.