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Day 1: Whiskey Tin Diddley Bass

I'm off work for a couple weeks and I got a lot to build. Todays build is a Diddley Bass made using a Johnnie Walker Whiskey Tin a long piece of pine and bass parts.

I'm loving this thing already, it may be the shape of the tin, but the sound is superb, the 125 gauge string resonates beautifully.

I love lowered the nut and anchored the string low to the length of pine so it plays finger style even fretless very nicely. And the Pair of 25mm piezos make it sound great through my Mustang amp.

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Permalink Reply by KOOL DOG HOOCH on July 15, 2019 at 10:07pm

Do you have the string going through the bottom of the tin? Or is the tin just a sound chamber?

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Permalink Reply by JP Lace Master on July 16, 2019 at 4:58am

The string goes through the bottom of the tin. everything is mounted to that tin in one way or another.

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Permalink Reply by KOOL DOG HOOCH on July 16, 2019 at 5:04am

Thanks. I for some reason thought my buddy was building them wrong. For whatever reason his cans get distorted. I mean the walls collapse on them!

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Permalink Reply by Timothy Hunter on July 16, 2019 at 9:15am

either can is too thin or he is trying to tune too high, too much tension. try a thinner string..

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Permalink Reply by KOOL DOG HOOCH on July 16, 2019 at 9:19am

It has to be tuning too high. He destroys way too many cans.

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Permalink Reply by JP Lace Master on July 16, 2019 at 12:54pm

I got lucky with this one, the tin is very thick and despite the 125 gauge bass string, the tension low enough and with the neck bracing the tin itself, it all holds.

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