Guitar
I've made a sliding bracket for the small pickup. It slides with little effort and easily picks up the different antinodes of the strings. Unfortunately, the pickup itself doesn't sound that good, so one of the next steps might be mounting one half of a P-bass pickup in a similar bracket - or perhaps have two sliding brackets and the usual switching arrangement.
Trying a good, well-known pickup should give me an idea of what the instrument sounds like and make it easier to find out its particular characteristics.
The system of cable and female jack on the body also works fine. I plan to add tone and volume pots down by the jack at some point.
- Two-layer Aluminium Neck
Among the drawbacks of my old T-beam designs were the lack of a truss rod or similar system to control the bow of the neck. A way to help this - but still use stock aluminium beam for the guitar - could be having a neck in two layers - an upper flat beam,...
- Truly Headless
After postponing it a number of times, I cut off the strat headstock of my very fine Warmoth neck. That took a bit of self persuation, but I needed it headless. A brass angle bracket is holding the strings. I also made a new acrylic body. This time, I...
- Future Project
Here's an instrument which I'd like to make some day: Three string blues slide guitarFor playing seatedSliding nutNo strapSpine: 30 X 12 mm aluminium rectangular beam - freely vibrating Piezo pickup on aluminium beamSliding pickup under strings-...
- Mahogany Sides For The T-beam
Almost a year ago I mentioned the mahogany sides that I was going to make for the two string T-beam bass. They're coming along slowly, but they're far enough to be shown here. The main thing is the added mahogany sides. But another thing I've...
- To-do List
Nothing much has happened on my T-beam-bass lately. I've replaced the jack connector since the old one didn't work and clamped the connecting cable going from the jack more securely to the sliding bracket. Plus, I've borrowed a friend's...
Guitar
A slightly prettier sliding bracket
I've made a sliding bracket for the small pickup. It slides with little effort and easily picks up the different antinodes of the strings. Unfortunately, the pickup itself doesn't sound that good, so one of the next steps might be mounting one half of a P-bass pickup in a similar bracket - or perhaps have two sliding brackets and the usual switching arrangement.Trying a good, well-known pickup should give me an idea of what the instrument sounds like and make it easier to find out its particular characteristics.
The system of cable and female jack on the body also works fine. I plan to add tone and volume pots down by the jack at some point.
- Two-layer Aluminium Neck
Among the drawbacks of my old T-beam designs were the lack of a truss rod or similar system to control the bow of the neck. A way to help this - but still use stock aluminium beam for the guitar - could be having a neck in two layers - an upper flat beam,...
- Truly Headless
After postponing it a number of times, I cut off the strat headstock of my very fine Warmoth neck. That took a bit of self persuation, but I needed it headless. A brass angle bracket is holding the strings. I also made a new acrylic body. This time, I...
- Future Project
Here's an instrument which I'd like to make some day: Three string blues slide guitarFor playing seatedSliding nutNo strapSpine: 30 X 12 mm aluminium rectangular beam - freely vibrating Piezo pickup on aluminium beamSliding pickup under strings-...
- Mahogany Sides For The T-beam
Almost a year ago I mentioned the mahogany sides that I was going to make for the two string T-beam bass. They're coming along slowly, but they're far enough to be shown here. The main thing is the added mahogany sides. But another thing I've...
- To-do List
Nothing much has happened on my T-beam-bass lately. I've replaced the jack connector since the old one didn't work and clamped the connecting cable going from the jack more securely to the sliding bracket. Plus, I've borrowed a friend's...