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  • Ben March 8, 2011 at 8:04am
    You said it, brother. Mine does just fine with stringed instruments but always sings along WAY too loudly with my trumpet playing.

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  • Brian Hunt March 8, 2011 at 2:15am

    Yep, DGBE is a baritone uke, don't know why I wrote tenor other than I had tenor on the mind. :)

     

    Thanks for catching that.

     

    Brian Hunt.

     


    Jef Long said:

    I make my 'tenors' with a 600mm (23 5/16) scale, i use the high four strings from a regular guitar set, and I tune EADG - an octave above the bottom of the guitar or two octaves above a bass. (this would be called a contra piccolo bass in orchestral circles, altho the name is certainly an oxymoron)

    as the guys say, some tune em DGBE,(this is actually a bari uke btw) but this seems kind of pointless to me, because anything there could be played on the high four strings on a regular guitar.  My one gives me a nice logical extra register of familiar guitar positions etc.  Theyre great for jammin with a regular gitt.

     

    there are at least three tenors (tins mostly) in my pics here, and one in a video called tim tam lullaby, check em out..

  • The Phrygian Kid March 8, 2011 at 1:33am

    I make my 'tenors' with a 600mm (23 5/16) scale, i use the high four strings from a regular guitar set, and I tune EADG - an octave above the bottom of the guitar or two octaves above a bass. (this would be called a contra piccolo bass in orchestral circles, altho the name is certainly an oxymoron)

    as the guys say, some tune em DGBE,(this is actually a bari uke btw) but this seems kind of pointless to me, because anything there could be played on the high four strings on a regular guitar.  My one gives me a nice logical extra register of familiar guitar positions etc.  Theyre great for jammin with a regular gitt.

     

    there are at least three tenors (tins mostly) in my pics here, and one in a video called tim tam lullaby, check em out..

  • Brian Hunt March 8, 2011 at 12:07am

    Thanks Keni,

     

    I enjoyed that. I have been wanting a republic guitar for a long time, but I am too broke to buy new guitars, so I fix up old ones I get for very little and make cigar box guitars.

     

    Brian.

     

     

  • Keni Lee Burgess March 7, 2011 at 4:27pm
    Thank you for your comment. This is the newest model from the good folks at www.republicguitars.com Frank is also a good source for your building needs too (necks, cones, cover plates, tail pieces, biscuit bridges etc.) Enjoy. 
  • Mark Bliss March 7, 2011 at 1:16pm

    reso tenor ...... Keni you made me smile and covet at the same time. Cool song, cool playin', cool vid.

    Man I want one of those!

     

    Keni Lee Burgess said:

  • Keni Lee Burgess March 7, 2011 at 1:02pm

    Did someone say tenor guitar???

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT2BaiVX-38&feature=channel_vide...

  • Brian Hunt March 7, 2011 at 12:40pm

    Yeah 1 1/16" seems a little narrow to me, but the neck tapers out to about 1 1/2 at the body.

     

    I prefer about 1 1/2" neck at the nut my own self and run it straight or taper it out to about 1 3/4" or just a hair wider.

     

    Brian Hunt.

     

     

  • Mark Bliss March 7, 2011 at 7:41am

    Brian points out my mistake on the DGBE tuning, thanks.

    Also note, I provided the calculation to 22 frets, but unless you extend the finger board onto the top of your box you wont be able to extend the neck that far. I calculate them further than needed then determine where the neck will fit when I plan a neck.

    For example, If you use a 9" or 10" long box and place the bridge in the common 1/3 or 1/4 from the end of the box range, you will find the neck meets the box in the range of the 18th fret at a 23" scale length.

    Also thanks to Brian for providing the additional measurements above, but I would suggest you build the neck width to your taste. 1-1/16th may be a little narrow for some people, fine for others. Depends on what you want.

  • Brian Hunt March 7, 2011 at 1:18am

    While part of this has already been posted, I thought I would repost some of what I have learned about the tenor guitar.

     

    The tenor guitar was often tuned in fifths like a mandolin with a standard tuning of CGDA, or a mandolin tuning of GDAE and a guitar tuning of DGBE, the top four strings of a guitar, and is also a tenor ukulele tuning. If tuned to the standard CGDA, you can use books on the tenor banjo for chords and songs that will work fine on the tenor guitar. I happen to like to play slide, so when I build a four string I tune it to GDBg and use banjo chords in the key of G with it and just drop the 5th string.

    Standard string gages tended to be (.036 .024 .016 .010). They generally had a 23 inch scale though Gibson usually used a 22 3/4" scale. A solid body one I was just looking at that is being built by Eastwood had a measurement of 1 1/16 " wide at the nut with a tapered neck and a 23" scale. A good website for info on the tenor guitar is tenorguitar.com

     

    hope this helps.

     

    Brian Hunt

     

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