Guitar
- Floyd Rose Headless Strat-like Guitar With (shock! Horror!) Hardtail Bridge
guitarz.blogspot.com: The name Floyd Rose is synonymous with locking tremolo systems but many people forget that Floyd Rose produce their own series of guitars. This Floyd Rose headless guitar looks a little like a Strat that's met with an accident;...
- Microfret Neck And Sitarcaster
Just bought on eBay this MicroFrets neck - from a 1968 Calibra - at a fair price, but missing its trademark MicroNut. Before I received it, I had planed to use it for my Butcher Block Sitarcaster project, so I wouldn't have to wait until I've...
- Melobaritone Project
My latest infatuation is the Melobar, a portable lap steel guitar conceived in the 60s by Melobar and released a.o. by Mosrite - and revived lately by Manson for John Paul Jones. I think that this instrument is probably less difficult to build...
- Doppelcaster Project
I know that I have many projects cooking and almost none really achieved but this last year I've been lucky enough to be very busy with stage projects - and this should last another year if everything works like planed! Anyway, it...
- More Neckless Guitar Sketches
If the concept behind the neckless guitar project proves successful, there are plenty of possible variations (OK, some are over the edge, but there are 2 or 3 that would be quite cool). Unfortunately I'm very busy on another project right now, and...
Guitar
Melobaritone project 2
I started to work on the Doppelcaster but my brain is still busy with the Melobaritone idea... I did put some more thinking on it, and updated the project (I want a new instrument, not just a Melobar copy).
First I would do it with an aluminium neck - there's no need to build something as complicated as a regular wooden neck with a truss rod, and I've always been interested in alu neck, so building an alternative guitar is a good opportunity to try it. Also I would put a Floyd Rose trem (with an headless system) - I used one for the first time last month and really enjoyed it.
One would object that a trem on a slide guitar is superfluous, this is true if you play old school blues, but for me it's more like a two-in-one instrument - for a noise maker such as I am, the sound of extremely distended strings is very interesting, and since I wouldn't purchase a guitar just for its Floyd Rose, I'll take this occasion.
I could easily put in this project all the gear I bought for the neckless guitar - it's been on stand-by for months now - and make it my next project after the doubleneck one...
- Floyd Rose Headless Strat-like Guitar With (shock! Horror!) Hardtail Bridge
guitarz.blogspot.com: The name Floyd Rose is synonymous with locking tremolo systems but many people forget that Floyd Rose produce their own series of guitars. This Floyd Rose headless guitar looks a little like a Strat that's met with an accident;...
- Microfret Neck And Sitarcaster
Just bought on eBay this MicroFrets neck - from a 1968 Calibra - at a fair price, but missing its trademark MicroNut. Before I received it, I had planed to use it for my Butcher Block Sitarcaster project, so I wouldn't have to wait until I've...
- Melobaritone Project
My latest infatuation is the Melobar, a portable lap steel guitar conceived in the 60s by Melobar and released a.o. by Mosrite - and revived lately by Manson for John Paul Jones. I think that this instrument is probably less difficult to build...
- Doppelcaster Project
I know that I have many projects cooking and almost none really achieved but this last year I've been lucky enough to be very busy with stage projects - and this should last another year if everything works like planed! Anyway, it...
- More Neckless Guitar Sketches
If the concept behind the neckless guitar project proves successful, there are plenty of possible variations (OK, some are over the edge, but there are 2 or 3 that would be quite cool). Unfortunately I'm very busy on another project right now, and...