Guitar
Here's an instrument which I'd like to make some day:
- Even Further Progress
The two-layer neck guitar is progressing further. Now, it's a very nice, compact and well-sounding instrument. There are still improvements to be made, but now that it's playable, I hope to play more and modify less. The neck is very flat...
- Further Progress On The Two-layer Neck
Improvements since last post: Saddles modified -> lower action Transparent plastic body (styrene-acrylonitrile) added. Two screws at the bottom side of the head end holding the two layers of the neck together. Row of neodymium magnets in M4 blind...
- New Tuners
I've always wanted to try out my a particular form of tuners for headless guitars and basses. They work by having a scew pulling a brass block in which the ball end of the string is mounted. The main inspiration was Jeff Turpin's tuners; drawings...
- Setting My Sights A Little Lower
It can't have escaped anyone's attention that I haven't yet built the T-beam guitar. Even though I've talked a lot about it, nothing tangible has emerged. I've bought the components and there's nothing much missing. It's just...
- Alternatives To The T-beam
I've tried quite a lot of places to get the crucial component, the T-beam. It is more difficult than I originally expected. I've tried a couple of scrap metal dealers and the leading Danish metal distributor. Plus a couple of web-based stores....
Guitar
Future project
Here's an instrument which I'd like to make some day:- Three string blues slide guitar
- For playing seated
- Sliding nut
- No strap
- Spine: 30 X 12 mm aluminium rectangular beam - freely vibrating
- Piezo pickup on aluminium beam
- Sliding pickup under strings- probably an ultra flat one with few primary windings and a current transformer.
- Plunger tuners (this principle)
- Minimalistic ergonomic body - the first version would probably be made from heat-bent acrylic plate
- Even Further Progress
The two-layer neck guitar is progressing further. Now, it's a very nice, compact and well-sounding instrument. There are still improvements to be made, but now that it's playable, I hope to play more and modify less. The neck is very flat...
- Further Progress On The Two-layer Neck
Improvements since last post: Saddles modified -> lower action Transparent plastic body (styrene-acrylonitrile) added. Two screws at the bottom side of the head end holding the two layers of the neck together. Row of neodymium magnets in M4 blind...
- New Tuners
I've always wanted to try out my a particular form of tuners for headless guitars and basses. They work by having a scew pulling a brass block in which the ball end of the string is mounted. The main inspiration was Jeff Turpin's tuners; drawings...
- Setting My Sights A Little Lower
It can't have escaped anyone's attention that I haven't yet built the T-beam guitar. Even though I've talked a lot about it, nothing tangible has emerged. I've bought the components and there's nothing much missing. It's just...
- Alternatives To The T-beam
I've tried quite a lot of places to get the crucial component, the T-beam. It is more difficult than I originally expected. I've tried a couple of scrap metal dealers and the leading Danish metal distributor. Plus a couple of web-based stores....