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This one had several incarnations before it was right. It started as a fretless acoustic slide I built to play along with my son. I added a piezo which fed back terribly. I put in a single coil with volume control which was much better. But something about just didn’t do it for me.
I was chatting with my brother about the builds I was doing and that got him interested. I said I’d build him one as soon as I got time, did he want a slide or fretted? Definitely fretted. Full scale or pentatonic plus? He had no idea what that was so I sent him a link to Del Puckett’s video. He definitely wanted pentatonic plus! So I filed that away as a build to do later.
Then, sitting around still not happy with this guitar, I wanted to add frets, but I had already put screws in the fretbosrd as markers, so that made it kind of tough. Then I realized if I just glued a 1/4” fretboard on I could put frets in easily! And I could give it to my brother! I got the fretboard at Home Depot. It was labeled as poplar and a $1.50. Pretty sure it wasn’t poplar but it looked good so I grabbed it. Glued on, frets put in, string tree reconfigured a bit, grounded one of the strings and added a new bridge with a jumbo fret to ground them all. Once the fret board was sanded and oiled it looked gorgeous!
So I was sitting around pretty proud of myself, having figured a nice way to add frets to this guitar and give it to my brother. My wife just shook her head and said I had just pulled the oldest big brother trick in the book: “I don’t want this but it would be awesome for you!” She was totally spot on!
Still, it is a pretty nice guitar. Just finished it tonight. The single coil hums a bit but now it finally feels right! It’s got a decent voice as an acoustic and the 1/4” fretboard makes the neck feel much beefier. Probably a good thing since my brother is a big guy.
Now I just need to find a box it fits in so I can send it to him.
Scott
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I especially like the detail of continuing the frets down the fret board even where it was angle cut at the box, and cool little amp!
Ducati Scotty > Richard DeanOctober 30, 2017 at 4:28pm
It was less trouble than I expected to put in the partial frets, and the right way to do the job ;)
That's the Danelectro DH-1. It's got the usual volume, tone and gain controls AND delay and tremolo! Sound output/quality is what you'd expect from a 9V battery amp but the effects make it really fun to play with. Headphone jack too, so I can mess around late at night without bothering anyone.
They make a DH-2 also, another nice little amp, but it doesn't have the added effects.
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I especially like the detail of continuing the frets down the fret board even where it was angle cut at the box, and cool little amp!
It was less trouble than I expected to put in the partial frets, and the right way to do the job ;)
That's the Danelectro DH-1. It's got the usual volume, tone and gain controls AND delay and tremolo! Sound output/quality is what you'd expect from a 9V battery amp but the effects make it really fun to play with. Headphone jack too, so I can mess around late at night without bothering anyone.
They make a DH-2 also, another nice little amp, but it doesn't have the added effects.
Scott
Beautiful