Ok a bit of explaination..this was a custom build I did for a local Blues guitarist who lives on the west coast of Canada. This is a semi-solid body; 12'x17' ; made of old growth cedar and church pew mahogany sides, 1/4" Baltic birch plywood back and 1/8"Ash/mahogany veneer sound board. It has a bolt on neck that I took off a Schecter electric guitar that I was given for parts. The head stock needed redoing as someone had tried to do some "custom" work on. It has single Duncan Seymor humbucker pickup from the same Schecter guitar going to just a 250 ohm volume pot. I used the black volume knob from the Schecter. For the resonator I used an aluminum Jello-mold/cake pan. The bridge is a home made solid mahogany compensated unit. I was having trouble with the intonation so I built the compensated bridge... it works very well. The sound holes are 1-5/8" drains fitted into 1 1/2" drilled holes. The tail piece is a stainless steel spatula which is attached with a 1/4" stainless - 3 inch long stove bolt. Finish is once coat of walnut ploy stain, followed by three coats of clear polyurethane and finished with a couple of coats of a wood finish made by a friend that is made of walnut oil and bees wax. Sounds really good acoustic, but it has a bit of a hum when run through my amp but not that bad.
I posted a film clip on Utube, but can't seem to attache the link.
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very nice. thanks for the utube link. did you have any problems with the bolt on and getting the angle to the box right? I know the tolerance is pretty darn fine.
Love the spatula, will try that on my next. I like using drains also for my sound holes. Would love to find some antique ones someday. Picture?
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