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Comment by John Hersey/Hersey Collectibles on June 12, 2013 at 5:28am

Cool, thanks!  The worst that can happen is I mess it up, take it off and keep on slidin'!

Comment by Wade on June 12, 2013 at 3:05am

Hi John,

I have found that if you don't stretch the wire, it will stretch later on its own and then you end up with floppy frets.

I stretched the wire by wrapping the end around a pole and giving it a good tug. The beginning was epoxied into a tight hole near the nut. You can do the same with the end. I also devised a crude but effective tightener using screw and a washer. I also used this method as a tuner on my diddley bow. 

Thanks for the comment

Wade

Comment by John Hersey/Hersey Collectibles on June 12, 2013 at 2:37am

Oh, and what did you do with the ends??

Comment by John Hersey/Hersey Collectibles on June 12, 2013 at 2:37am

I want to use wire for frets and I saw your comment about pre stretching??  How in the world do you do that and do I need to?

Comment by keith peterson on February 24, 2011 at 1:17pm

I like the level piece and just so happens have a junk one in my collection of guitar stuff, I also have a 120 watt Peavy with an Acoustic head, seems like the piezo is noisy and sounds like crap in the one guitar that has the pickup incased in hot glue. Maybe just a bad piezo....Hope to get back to building soon, weather been really crappy in Michigan.

Comment by Wade on February 24, 2011 at 1:05pm

hi keith, Hollowbelly, David, Hamhock, everyone I missed,

Sorry for the extremely late reply. Somehow I did'nt see most of these posts until now. The bridge was a piece of "T" from a broken aluminum level. David, the wire fret idea came from a creative guy in australia who designs and builds affordable instruments for underpriveledged areas. Bob Brozman, an incredible slide guitarist, is also involved in this project. They have a great site called cyberferal.com.

Some people groove the back of the neck, but I did'nt. The trick is to prestretch the wire before wrapping. I just notched the edges of the fretboard and wrappped. I believe this method is also more effective if you have a slight radius on the fretboard to allow the wire to lay perfectly flat. This was just an ordinary piezo pickup, but I am playing out of a big 100 watt Peavy tube amp, thus the big sound. Hope this helps. I'll try to reply sooner next time.

Wade

Comment by keith peterson on February 24, 2011 at 7:54am

Love it, would like to see a close up of the bridge, nice work.

Comment by Wade on April 14, 2009 at 3:28pm

Thanks guys. I like doing all types art - including airbrushing and pinstriping.

Comment by jasus on April 14, 2009 at 2:08pm

the pistripe is awsum,,did u do that?

Comment by HOLLOWBELLY on March 12, 2009 at 8:23am

wicked bro.

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