Guitar
Amongst the guitar blogs and sites I follow, one is quite similar to mine, The Aluminium T-beam Guitar Blog, that I visit always with pleasure.
- 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,...
- To-do List - Status
I am having slow progress on the T-beam bass (remember the to-do list?). I have carved out the curves for neck and body on the aluminium beam using hacksaw and file. There is still some filing to do before I mount the mahogany sides, which will also have...
- 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...
- In The Meantime...
It's been a while since my last update. This is primarily due to other, more pressing tasks in life. I haven't done any work on the T-beam guitar, except from a lot of thinking. In the meantime, I've made a modification to my old Squier Strat....
- 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
The Aluminium T-beam Guitar Blog
Amongst the guitar blogs and sites I follow, one is quite similar to mine, The Aluminium T-beam Guitar Blog, that I visit always with pleasure.
Alexander - the blogmaster - is working slowly but steadily (a little bit quicker than me though) on guitar innovations of his own, and his last post shows a new step in his current project that I find quite stunning.
He reconnected his humbuckers to phase-switch them, but decided not to hide the cables inside the body, and to let them run on the guitar table in copper tubes!
The constructivist sobriety of the result allows it not to fall in the easy steam-punk cliché and it's just beautiful (it will look better with the strings on).
There are many other things to discover on this blog - T-beam alu necks, plexiglas ultra-thin bodies, alternative tuners and really cool computer generated sketches (I wish I could do that, not instead of hand-made ones that are enjoyable to do, but to finalize projects...).
- 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,...
- To-do List - Status
I am having slow progress on the T-beam bass (remember the to-do list?). I have carved out the curves for neck and body on the aluminium beam using hacksaw and file. There is still some filing to do before I mount the mahogany sides, which will also have...
- 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...
- In The Meantime...
It's been a while since my last update. This is primarily due to other, more pressing tasks in life. I haven't done any work on the T-beam guitar, except from a lot of thinking. In the meantime, I've made a modification to my old Squier Strat....
- 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....