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Permalink Reply by lenny purnell on January 17, 2009 at 6:24pm

I would have him machine a aluminum neck. You could hollow it out so it wouldn't be so heavy. I use alum nuts and bridges they are a nice . He could also machine nice crisp dot holes on your wood neck 1/4 inch wide .050 deep. Or face off a neck so its perfectly flat. Man a mill is a sweet thing. Lenny

Permalink Reply by Josh Gayou (SmokehouseGuitars) on January 17, 2009 at 6:40pm

Dude, think of all the stuff that they make for 6 string guitars that you wish you could get for a 3 or 4 stringer (if you make those). That's what I'd go for.

Permalink Reply by Mark Werner on January 18, 2009 at 1:54am

Pretty cool. After seeing the copper-tubing guitar up in the pictures section, and standing around in an elevator yesterday admiring the guitar-neck sized aluminum railing.... I thought it might be fun to make a "heavy metal" (well, light metal in this case) guitar solely out of metal.
Used to be a commercial guitar (can't remember the name) that was almost a work of art, with the neck a stainless steel rod and the "frets" smaller rods fitted into machined slots. Tailpiece in-line tuners.... Thing looked like a fish skeleton.

Permalink Reply by Mark Vickroid on January 19, 2009 at 9:50am

I make a lot of non-6string stuff from brass, but not with a mill, of course... Nuts would be nice, could likely slot them just the right width, right? Some gretch style rocker bar brisges with compensation would be cool to.. I like the idea of pickguards and plates and stuff, I was thinking in bar-stock mode..

I dunno if this guy would be up for a neck! Maybe once we get together and see how things go....

He is a bass player, so I'm gonna bring a few basses over for him to try, and some beer to get things goin..

Permalink Reply by John Sims on January 21, 2009 at 7:33am

See attached file of an Aluminum Guitar! Very Cool!

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• Aluminum Guitar.pdf, 1.8 MB