Been a while since I last posted on here. fair enough most of what I build is for sale and I don't want it to look like I am on here to advertise, but this build here is a personal one and one I have been planning for for years.
It is a Micro Bass, f
Read more…you guys have heard me talk about this thing already, so I'll just give the new details of the finished project.
I sprayed the body and the neck itself and it made the wood and the even the ply itself come up very nicely, especially the top lid, it l
Read more…had an unexpected week off so I thought I'd get it done before winter comes. still got one or 2 things left to do, but this is what I got done so far. just need to round off the edges and corners, spray the body in a lot of clear lacquer, mount the n
Read more…been a long time people, I been busy and building a lot of things which for administration reasons I shouldn't post on here, but I got something new I gotta show off and get some advice on.
During the 2020 lockdown, I built my 6 String/coursed string
As some of you may know, I do not build unless the weather is good. I haven't had a good day of weather since September, long time to go without a build on the go. yesterday was good, did some spraying and prep work on a Strat and Tele, today I built
Read more…Since my work on the 12 String Canjo, I been learning a lot about course String instruments and I must say Its all quite interesting, but I am finding little to nothing for Cigar Boxes, Canios, etc, except for the occasional mandolin, my 12 String an
Read more…Coming a bit late, been back to work, been busy, but here are the last of my holiday builds; 6 over 2 days and 26 overall.
Due to the tins I have used and the length of the necks I prepared for each of them, I ended up with a variety of instruments.
Read more…Todays builds have been an experiment in tunings and scale lengths. Light strung instruments are something that interests me and am now building more and more them and these 3 today are just the beginning.
all 3 instruments are made using Fox's Bisc
Read more…I have been working on these since I finished my 12 String Biscuit Tin during Quarantine. I wanted to get the sound of the 12 String and scale it down to something more familiar and whilst I have a few other ideas on how to do this and will be trying
Read more…decided to go back do an old favourite before I moved onto my next new idea.
complete set of M&M collector tins, each with a piezo and a broom handle shoved into them. Always a fun build. This is the 3rd time I've made a set of them and the 4th set o
Read more…I have been working on this since Lockdown. lots of cutting and sanding and gluing and screwing and swearing and some bleeding and that was just making the body and I'm a little out of it as I type this because of the amount of clear gloss I sprayed
Read more…Had to skip Day 4 of the builds, 3 days straight ruined my back; could barely get out of bed on Day 4, but better now for the moment.
Todays builds are something new for me, both have small, but deep tin bodies, both have 2 strings and have a scale
Read more…This one is quite straight forward; 5 Elephant Tin Diddley Bow Canjo's. 3 of them are Baritone with a scale of 27 inches and the other 2 are short with 21.5 inch scales. Very simple builds, but I love them for there simplicity. Each tin is equipped w
Read more…Its not quite finished yet, but this is pretty much it. The body is an extra deep, teacup shaped Biscuit Tin, so once its strung up, its going to be very resonant.
Speaking from a left handed players view, the top neck is a 4 string slide neck. I'm g
Read more…Another quarantine build (and another sunburn), I forget which number I'm on at this point, maybe 6.
Slightly different from my normal 6 String Canjo builds. instead of my normal Biscuit Tins, I used a top lid tin, like you'd find on old cereal stor
Read more…I present my full size 4 String Biscuit Tin Bass guitar. its beautiful, I love making the Biscuit Tin basses. I don't know if you guys have tried doing full size basses as Cigar Boxes and Canjos, but I can'r help but find that the hardest part is fin
Read more…Not going to lie guys, this one was a real pain. another quarantine build, this time a 12 string Biscuit Tin guitar. I don't think anyone has tried this before, I've seen one 12 string CBG, but not a Canjo. aside from the actual building process whic
Read more…My Quarantine is over and I am back to work, not going to lie, I enjoyed the time off. In those 3 months, I built these; some of my finest builds, especially the 12 string and the 4 string bass. The 4 on the left, are for new pastures, but I will enj
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I've made good progress with the 6 String Banjo. Once I got the neck, the thread, the tailpiece and Tin in front of me, I had a better idea as to what I needed to do, so I stuck it all together and I'm quite pleased with what I've got so far.
Had som
Read more…Day 6 of Quarantine, getting bored, can't binge watch Dragon Ball all day. So I got a head start in my Summertime builds and put this thing together. quite standard for my 6 String builds: big tin, in this case a Quality Street Chocolate Tin (if you'
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