@algo just played this box in our garden. That boy can play you know?
Suggested angling the neck back a bit to lower the action. Gunslinger style.
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Wildly OT: Cigar Box Guitar Challenge
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Good to bring in a pro
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Beyond pro and into the divine. Brought @Instography's Promenade too, huh?
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@the Fife beer
Gembo Tom’s Newkie Brown tastes like Newcastle Brown but is a tad flat
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And sour if we are to be honest? The cider is a work of genius.
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No the newkie brown is new. not sour but undeniably flat.
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Dihydrogen monoxide is a colourless liquid of very low toxicity and flammability.
Can be fatal if you consume enough of it.
(This is not a joke. You can mess up the balance of salts and what-have-you in your body (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication))Posted 3 years ago # -
OK now the joking is over I have tried to play the beast.
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Yeah man
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Oh, baby.
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Have now witnessed @steveo's Kalashniguitar. Weird how we came to the same and different conclusions about various bits of the instrument.
Not going to electrify this instrument so gluing the lid down this afternoon.....definitive.
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One day I hope to be able to hear and see that lovely instrument in the flesh
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impressive craft, iwrats
furthering the great work
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@bax
The neck is oddly sticky. I do not know why.
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multiple masonic puns in my post
honestly i don't know why i bother
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@bax. Not everyone has a degree
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lol not bad gembo-san, not bad
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@bax
On the level brother I never spotted that. A lapse for the normally all-seeing IWRATS.
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@iwrats, Bax-San, the penny has dropped.
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Anybody know what the dots on the fret board are for?
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Masonic influence on guitar design?
Way finding or to help with positioning
Except on fret less bass
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Way finding or to help with positioning
Except on fret less bass
Mostly wayfinding for instruments tuned in 4ths, since you have the fifth fret marker for adjacent strings, the seventh fret marker for octaves on adjacent strings, and (obviously) the 12th fret marker for octaves. Other ones mostly follow the pattern of odd numbers and intervals. You don't mark even numbered intervals because they mostly sound dissonant. Brian May's guitar has, unusually, twin dots at the 7th and three at the 12th, for more utility.
My fretless Jazz bass has an unlined fingerboard, which I prefer to inlaid fret lines, but it does have small dot markers on the edge of the neck so that I'm not completely lost.
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Big use of the square in construction. A masonic guitar would need a perfectly cubical box?
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Ah yours is only cuboidical?
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I've glued the lid down. It is definitive, whatever it is.
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@iwrats: when does the n+1 build begin?
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@stickman Ali Farka Toure has just placed an order.
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@Stickman
About to talk to my cabinet maker pal about where to buy spruce boards, rock maple etc. I cannot deny it.
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@iwrats: splendid. Absolutely splendid.
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