Post up photos of your tin-tars!  These are the ones that look mostly like this:






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Yes, this is the kind of photo I was asking for, thanks. And your method appears much more sturdy as compared to just attaching the cookie tin to the neck with a few wood screws. [By the way, Chinese immigration wouldn't let me out of the country yesterday because I accidentally overstayed my visa by one day. I was there one month ago, May 22nd and my plane tickets were for June 22nd and it didn't click that there were actually 31 days between the two dates. I need to get into the mindset that a "30 day Visa" means "2 weeks Visa" so that I have a lot of "slop time" to get around to exit to Hong Kong so I can return again for another 30 day -- I mean 14 day -- stay. Today I have to go to the Immigration Police Station downtown to pay a fine. They were closed yesterday when I discovered this problem, so they will likely charge me for 2 days overstay in spite of the fact that the station was closed at the time the problem was discovered. Enough to make me wonder why I put up with living here. Must be because of my wife, daughter and her family. My flight has been rescheduled for tonight and I'm returning to the States for a little R&R form the extremely hot summer weather in China. So, anyway, I've used some of this time to read/reply to CBN, e-mail and the like.]
Diane in Chicago said:
Here's the innards, i put those little feet on either end and screw them to the bottom of the tin. I just use scraps, but others cut feet like that as part of the neck.

Rand Moore said:
Diane, Mark: Those are some nice looking tin-tars! How are you bracing the necks to the cookie tins? It would be nice to have a few internal bracing / neck-to-cookie tin photos as well, if that's not asking to much.

here is my biscuit tin ukulele.
Hey Patrick, there is a foot on your head, just incase you didnt know. ;)
Yeah I know that's my trademark. I have a handful of instruments floating around with a foot on them. My company is bigfoot guitar co. and by company I mean I sell guitars to help pay for grad school. So far I have good reviews on the foot!

Tracy Kennedy said:
Hey Patrick, there is a foot on your head, just incase you didnt know. ;)
Here's a couple of my "Dulcijos" ( dulcimer fretted cans that look like a banjo;-) .. No match for Diane's though... That paint really set those off... I went for the rustic look :-) A three stringer and a four stringer

Robert: Oh, I love the cake can you used for your instrument pictured above and below. My grandma used to send us fruit cakes when I was a kid canned in this exact can. I wonder where I can find / buy one? I guess I'll have to search E-Bay. Such nostalgia! -Rand.
Cogdell boy (Robert J.) said:

That fourth tuner location is pretty cool. Nicely done.
Cogdell boy (Robert J.) said:
Here's a couple of my "Dulcijos" ( dulcimer fretted cans that look like a banjo;-) .. No match for Diane's though... That paint really set those off... I went for the rustic look :-) A three stringer and a four stringer

Hey guys just built my first tin 3 stringer.


The box was a very simple thin steel square tin, that contained the kit a to play a murder mystery game. It was £1GBP from a local charity/thrift store.

I used a hardwood pickaxe handle for £2.50GBP from a car boot sale for the neck, but it is planed less than perfectly, so it plays a bit odd in places (something I will work on later). The nut is a piece of M6 threaded rod, and the bridge a piece of pork rib bone.

Electrics are a single 27mm piezo a switch and a jack, and as the tin is conductive, the switch and jack have a 11mm centre bore rubber plumbing washer either side to isolate them from the body.

As it is fretless it doesn't play very well fingered. With a slide and a pick it plays well. Has a sound a cross between a Dobro and a Banjo.

When electrified, it sounds metallic but meaty. Probably need a better amp to do it justice.
Does anyone make soundholes in their metal body instruments?
Excellent tin! No sound holes for me on metal builds.

Carl Robson said:
Hey guys just built my first tin 3 stringer.


The box was a very simple thin steel square tin, that contained the kit a to play a murder mystery game. It was £1GBP from a local charity/thrift store.

I used a hardwood pickaxe handle for £2.50GBP from a car boot sale for the neck, but it is planed less than perfectly, so it plays a bit odd in places (something I will work on later). The nut is a piece of M6 threaded rod, and the bridge a piece of pork rib bone.

Electrics are a single 27mm piezo a switch and a jack, and as the tin is conductive, the switch and jack have a 11mm centre bore rubber plumbing washer either side to isolate them from the body.

As it is fretless it doesn't play very well fingered. With a slide and a pick it plays well. Has a sound a cross between a Dobro and a Banjo.

When electrified, it sounds metallic but meaty. Probably need a better amp to do it justice.
Does anyone make soundholes in their metal body instruments?
Diane in Chicago said:
Excellent tin! No sound holes for me on metal builds.


Yeah figured. Sounds a little quiet accoustically, but that could equally be the fretless nature.
I have found the source of a larger heavier "Victoria Biscuits" tin in my local ALDI for £5GBP, nice and deep so more guitar like.
Hi
these look like a lot of fun i have some old sweetie tins knocking about think i will give this a go, i might be asking a lot of silly questions lol
Neil
Hi All.

Here's a website with some really innovative cookie tin guitars: http://www.cyberferal.com/UncleBob/. Check it out. I like the headless design, the home made tuners and the frets made from a continuous piece of wire wrapped around the neck. I'm going back there now...

-Rand.

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