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Post by alexkirtley on Aug 27, 2015 20:49:58 GMT
Here are two guitars I have made, one from a skirting board, one from an old box, they are great fun to make, sound surprisingly good too! It started as a project to see if I could make a playable guitar for nothing (which became 'the plank' on the right) now I'm just making as many as I can out of broken guitars and whatever materials I can salvage.
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Post by earwighoney on Aug 27, 2015 22:39:09 GMT
Good work Alex.
What did you use for the bodies? Do you have any other projects on the horizons?
I like the homemade cigar box type aesthetic.
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Post by ocarolan on Aug 27, 2015 22:51:28 GMT
Looks like fun Alex, and with some good results. There's a bloke lives near me that does, among other things, a similar process with some stunning results - you might get some useful ideas from his website - www.shonkymusicalinstruments.co.uk/homeKeith
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Post by alexkirtley on Aug 27, 2015 23:40:21 GMT
Good work Alex. What did you use for the bodies? Do you have any other projects on the horizons? I like the homemade cigar box type aesthetic. The body on the left is just the lid from a plywood box, cut in half and reshaped to form a smaller box, I have the rest of the box to make another guitar. The one on the right is a cut off from the oak skirting boards fitted when our house was being refurbished. I have a little wood store starting in the bottom of my wardrobe I do have projects on the horizons but it all depends on what I can find, I am always looking for broken electric and acoustic guitars to salvage parts from, more than anything necks and pickups, then I look for things or bits of wood to make bodies from, I would like to make a resonator guitar at some point, most likely like an enlarged cigar box because I don't have any real luthier tools In addition to this I am constantly repairing, servicing and modifying guitars, ahh, the luxuries of having no social life
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Post by alexkirtley on Aug 27, 2015 23:54:09 GMT
Looks like fun Alex, and with some good results. There's a bloke lives near me that does, among other things, a similar process with some stunning results - you might get some useful ideas from his website - www.shonkymusicalinstruments.co.uk/homeKeith Keith, that did give me some ideas, I want to make a double neck!
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Post by fatfingerjohn on Aug 28, 2015 6:35:57 GMT
Fascinating! A few questions?
Do you have to have any specialist musical knowledge to get the positioning of everything right? How long do you think it took you to do the one on the left? Have you any special woodworking tools? How do you attach the neck; is it bolted on?
John
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Post by alexkirtley on Aug 28, 2015 8:52:20 GMT
Fascinating! A few questions? Do you have to have any specialist musical knowledge to get the positioning of everything right? How long do you think it took you to do the one on the left? Have you any special woodworking tools? How do you attach the neck; is it bolted on? John I do have specialist knowledge, just enough to make me dangerous, but not specialist tools, I find many ways around certain things. The one on the left probably took 4 or 5 days, mainly because things like drying times and getting fancy with the F-holes took up time. Inside the box there is a neck block the neck is then bolted on to that
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Post by earwighoney on Aug 28, 2015 9:54:42 GMT
Good work Alex. What did you use for the bodies? Do you have any other projects on the horizons? I like the homemade cigar box type aesthetic. The body on the left is just the lid from a plywood box, cut in half and reshaped to form a smaller box, I have the rest of the box to make another guitar. The one on the right is a cut off from the oak skirting boards fitted when our house was being refurbished. I have a little wood store starting in the bottom of my wardrobe I do have projects on the horizons but it all depends on what I can find, I am always looking for broken electric and acoustic guitars to salvage parts from, more than anything necks and pickups, then I look for things or bits of wood to make bodies from, I would like to make a resonator guitar at some point, most likely like an enlarged cigar box because I don't have any real luthier tools In addition to this I am constantly repairing, servicing and modifying guitars, ahh, the luxuries of having no social life Good work chap! I like the look of both. Keep up the great work. I might have some bits and pieces if you're interested at some point. Social life? With guitars you don't need a social life!
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Post by alexkirtley on Aug 28, 2015 10:28:42 GMT
The body on the left is just the lid from a plywood box, cut in half and reshaped to form a smaller box, I have the rest of the box to make another guitar. The one on the right is a cut off from the oak skirting boards fitted when our house was being refurbished. I have a little wood store starting in the bottom of my wardrobe I do have projects on the horizons but it all depends on what I can find, I am always looking for broken electric and acoustic guitars to salvage parts from, more than anything necks and pickups, then I look for things or bits of wood to make bodies from, I would like to make a resonator guitar at some point, most likely like an enlarged cigar box because I don't have any real luthier tools In addition to this I am constantly repairing, servicing and modifying guitars, ahh, the luxuries of having no social life Good work chap! I like the look of both. Keep up the great work. I might have some bits and pieces if you're interested at some point. Social life? With guitars you don't need a social life! My thoughts exactly. If you do have any things that would be great
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Post by Mike Floorstand on Aug 28, 2015 22:25:16 GMT
Excellent work! Also check out www.tin-tone.com/about-us.html I think his typical instrument is something like a vintage sandwich tin with the leg of an old school desk for a neck, but I've seen resonator and other instruments fashioned from repurposed saucepan lids and other objects.
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