I've been working on this for about a week now, glued and clamped in the background whilst I worked on my bigger builds. Now it is finished and I see why they are such popular builds. I was given a box to try and use and just happened to have a novelty Nashville License Plate laying around that fit over the top over the top of it.
The inside of the box has been strengthen and thickened in places (hence all the gluing and clamping) and screwed the License Plate down onto it. On the inside of the box I have a single Piezo Disc and a single jack. The strings are anchored on the Plate itself, there was a little overhang that worked perfectly for it.
I have strung it with 11, 14 and 18w Ernie Balls and tuned it to EBE and it sounds beautiful. I have given it this tuning and an adjustable Scale Length with the purpose of shifting the type of instrument it plays as. at the moment it is 25.5 scale, rather standard, but I can shorten it to make it a 3 string Tenor or lengthen it to make a 3 string Plectrum.
What you guys think.
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been playing it for a few days now, loving the sound and the feel of it. I have marked on the side of the neck where certain fret positions would be for the various scale lengths, one advantage of making these things fretless. The Tenor length is 22 inches, the normal length is 25.5 inches and the Plectrum length is 27 inches, keeping the EBE tuning for all of them. the change in pitch for each length is interesting. the low pitch of the Tenor with the high strings sounds superb and the extended scale of the plectrum length makes it the brightest guitar I've ever played or built.