Strung up my first last night and it's almost there... That little box is louder than I expected, and that's without soundholes yet. Very cool! It wasn't hard to get a couple good licks out of it either. I can't wait to add a pickup and try it though my amps!
A problem though:
I wanted to do a fender-style headstock with a grooved nut, so I sawed it in and cleaned it up with the edge of a file. I made a nut out of red oak scrap, but I can't get a good seat and the high string has a dead sound because of it. If I really force the edge of the nut down it sounds fine.
The bottom of the nut is dead flat (checked against a straightedge with a backlight), so the problem is the seat. No matter how careful I try to be, I can't get rid of the slight curve that causes the nut to rock in there.
Ideas?
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Crow said:
Thanks guys.
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Crow said:
From reading other discussion groups, some people do say a sound hole improves the tone - and I have sound holes on two others that I've made and I'm happy with them. But I would recommend testing before you drill if you can.
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what, what was the question??