Here's the innards, i put those little feet on either end and screw them to the bottom of the tin. I just use scraps, but others cut feet like that as part of the neck.
Rand Moore said:
Diane, Mark: Those are some nice looking tin-tars! How are you bracing the necks to the cookie tins? It would be nice to have a few internal bracing / neck-to-cookie tin photos as well, if that's not asking to much.
Hey Patrick, there is a foot on your head, just incase you didnt know. ;)
Here's a couple of my "Dulcijos" ( dulcimer fretted cans that look like a banjo;-) .. No match for Diane's though... That paint really set those off... I went for the rustic look :-) A three stringer and a four stringer
Hey guys just built my first tin 3 stringer.
The box was a very simple thin steel square tin, that contained the kit a to play a murder mystery game. It was £1GBP from a local charity/thrift store.
I used a hardwood pickaxe handle for £2.50GBP from a car boot sale for the neck, but it is planed less than perfectly, so it plays a bit odd in places (something I will work on later). The nut is a piece of M6 threaded rod, and the bridge a piece of pork rib bone.
Electrics are a single 27mm piezo a switch and a jack, and as the tin is conductive, the switch and jack have a 11mm centre bore rubber plumbing washer either side to isolate them from the body.
As it is fretless it doesn't play very well fingered. With a slide and a pick it plays well. Has a sound a cross between a Dobro and a Banjo.
When electrified, it sounds metallic but meaty. Probably need a better amp to do it justice.
Does anyone make soundholes in their metal body instruments?
Excellent tin! No sound holes for me on metal builds.
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