Big day in prospect. Neck and resonator box gonna get to know each other.
Then some metalwork for the tailpiece, fine tuners and bridge followed by assembly, snagging and....playing.
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Wildly OT: Cigar Box Guitar Challenge
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Can I put a request in for New England by Billy Bragg? As first tune?
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I'll see if Indisposed Neil is willing to stand in for me - if so then yeah baby, otherwise errrr....I'll try.
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I was 21 years when I wrote this song
I’m 22 now but I won’t be for long
People ask me son when will you grow up to be a man
When all the girls you knew at school are already pushing pramsNot quite the lyrics but how I recall them, also how Paul Simon allowed the first couplet ah dinnae ken.
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Oh, I know the song. Used to use that and Motörhead's Ace of Spades to psych myself up back in the day when we disagreed on the doorsteps.
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Ah those dear dead days beyond recall. Both tracks very appropriate,
Must be a genearation ago? Now there is no prospect of King Alex we can stravaig the gither.
In other news Jane Garvey has left Women’s Hour today. Seems like yesterday I recall her joining. (In fact 13 years)
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I'd better get on with it.
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Rather satisfyingly it 'rings' when tapped even with the components push-fitted rather than glued and braced.
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Looking very Bo Diddley. Which is hugely good
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The lid is a neat push fit. I guessed where the battens should go and seem to have got them right first time.
Borrowing hole cutters tomorrow, off to wreck all my hacksaw blades on a stainless steel tray I found in the street.
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Made a stainless steel tailpiece and fine tuners from bicycle spokes. Improvised machine head a bit too crude for the lovely strings gifted by @wingpig.
Therefore I shall fit the cast-off machine heads gifted by @NiallA
Cannot beat CCE.
Tomorrow I make a stainless steel bridge and we will have noise of a kind.
Need to think bout frets some though.
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Proud to announce that the project started with an axe (to split some timber) and the micrometer just came out of the toolbox.
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See you, as though I don't have enough ideas floating round my head. Just off a half hour trawl of youtube and reckon I've got enough timber to at least build the body...
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Instrument assembled and tested. Sounds filthy with a touch of Mali. (Filthi?)
Dismantled for varnish, sanding and polish.
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Box made, nearly even square. Working on the headstock.
Had to cheat though and order strings and pegs, I'm not entirely sure this will help me any.
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@steveo, Richard Bona is a virtuoso bass player, but when he was very young in Cameroon, he found he had to make the instruments he wanted to play. He made himself a guitar at one point but had no strings for it, and so stole some brake cables from a bicycle shop.
I'd never heard of Bona back in 1995, but my first (playable) bass was an every expense spared endeavour. I made a Fender-style bridge using a piece of thick steel plate I found in the garage, saddles made from a broken mitre saw frame drilled and tapped for height and length, plus springs from ballpoint pens. I had the strings already, because I'd stolen a set from school to put on my toy wooden pretend bass I'd made, in the vein of JP's Breaking the Law video.
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I'll go have a look at his work!
I never thought of bike cables, might try that another time and make a single string thing.
I'm absolutely non musical but I guess I've got some time on my hands at the moment.
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@steveo
Can confirm spokes make great frets.
@Arrelcat
My bridge is made from a stainless steel tray I found. It is based on the wooden bridge from the 'George Formby' brand banjo/ukulele my dad brought back from the States.
Also planned to use brake/gear cable for the strings of Madame IWARTS' bass.
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Fret less baby. Its all about the slide.
/insert quick riff
<he says having never played before>I've got a couple of carriage bolts for the bridge and the head bit.
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@steveo
Jammin'. Mama status: brand new bag.
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This thread is gaining traction
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I will not walk away from a thread just cos its wheels spun at first no Siree my mama didn't raise no quitters.
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Pictures and video please!
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I shot a video but the resolution was too high to post...currently in bits for varnish and wax and for the metal parts to be polished. The varnish has already caused the pitch of the resonator box to go up after two coats. There will be five in all before waxing.
Also watching this on a loop.
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You found that one too eh?
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Any song....one finger. Gold dust.
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Even that white stripes one!
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Nah. Nahnahnahnah-naaaah-NAH?
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That is the one seven nation elephant or somesuch
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Rumours of even greater traction.
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