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Tenor guitar

Posted by Paullus L. Armstrong on April 19, 2015 at 10:02pm in Building Secrets, Tips, Advice, Discussion

Hello all.

Any information out their on tenor guitars?

I'm planning on building one, but info seem to be hidden by the Illuminati or something.

They will be solid body electric types.

Need help desperately.

If anyone has plans stuff in a hidden drawer would you be willing to share? 

Thanks in advanced.

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  • Scott aka Farmer Ted April 20, 2015 at 7:19am

    306440577?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024Here's one I made this year. Scale length on tenors is typically 23", but other short scales that are close will work. Common tunings are CGDA, GDAE, or DGBE. Nut width for tenors hover around 1-3/16". As Ron said, there's over 70 pages of info here from other builders who have dabbled in this. And Clock the Wolf's link is good too.

    • Paullus L. Armstrong > Scott aka Farmer Ted April 23, 2015 at 7:13pm

      I was wondering could I get your neck dimensions?

      I would like to compare them to mine.

      20150421_233905.jpg

      • Scott aka Farmer Ted > Paullus L. Armstrong April 23, 2015 at 9:51pm

        Saw your photo. Looks like you will need to adjust your neck further down to have enough "heel" to bolt it on. Likely, by setting the 17th fret at the body/heel . It may alter your intended bridge location. But without moving the neck down a bit, the neck to body strength may be compromised.

        • Paullus L. Armstrong > Scott aka Farmer Ted April 23, 2015 at 9:59pm

          Yes it does.

          That neck is just a template from 3/8" mdf.

          I just kinda laid there to get a picture to post.

          But thanks for the info.

      • Scott aka Farmer Ted > Paullus L. Armstrong April 23, 2015 at 9:42pm

        1Sold last week, so dont have to measure. But the nut is 1--3/16", scale is 22-7/8", 21 frets, and tapers toward the bridge that has a spacing of 1-1/8". Hope that helps.

    • darryl kernaghan > Scott aka Farmer Ted April 20, 2015 at 9:05am

      man,that is nice Scott

  • gary sheldon April 20, 2015 at 1:41am

    I think Wikipedia has info on it.  I read about it a few months ago.  They were mostly acoustic, I believe.  Made in the 20's 30's 40's 50's.  Four strings and open tuned.  Very much like a CBG.

  • Clock The Wolf April 19, 2015 at 10:45pm

    http://www.tenorguitar.com/

  • Ron "Oily" Sprague April 19, 2015 at 10:15pm
    Paulus,

    A quick tickle of the ol' keyboard, typed in "Tenor guitar" in the Search box up there in the right hand top corner of each page here at CBN, and Viola!

    71 (Holey Simolians, Batman!) pages (pages!) of references to tenor guitar builds, pics, albums of build pics, tunings, etc.

    As Casey Stengel (by way of James Thurber) used to say:

    "You could look it up."
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