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I've been interested in rectangle guitars lately, first with the hollow-log (I keep thinking about it, could be made out of aluminium since I will get a stock of it soon), and a couple of posts ago exchanging comments about how the use a cutting board to make a guitar... And then I saw Allison Mosshart playing a beautiful white Gretsch Bo Diddley with the Dead Weather on From the Basement (I didn't like this guitar until then).
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The Mini-me Version Of The Gretsch Electromatic Bo Diddley Guitar
guitarz.blogspot.com: When I saw the Buy It Now price on this Gretsch Electromatic Bo Diddley guitar currently listed on eBay I did a double take, for $224.99 seems very reasonable for a Gretsch guitar. My next reaction was that it must be a copy or...
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More Sketches
Music of the week: difficult to tell what music interested me most in the last days - I've seen a few good concerts, played one, listened to different things including many synthesizer demos... Lets say that what I remember the most is hearing...
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Alu Log Guitar Project
In the last days I've been considering again working on an aluminium hollow-body rectangle guitar - since I plan to build an alu plate folder for a pedal I have in mind, I'm wondering if I should not do it big enough to fold a piece...
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Kay Hollow Body Electric In Chicago For $140
There is no pic on this listing but it sounds like an old Kay N-1 made for Holiday or a similar 1950's vintage beater electric ala Jack White. Expect to put a little work into this one - though it might not be too bad. Heck he'll even trade it...
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Background - Why And How
Over the last years, I've become more and more interested in building guitars rather than (just) playing them. I never got around to actually building anything, but I took a couple of guitars apart and put them together again. I also discovered, that...
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