Mark Werner's Discussions (32)
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Neck sources
Having built all manner of things, I now have a rather crazy notion to build a Godin guitar. Well, not REALLY... But a nylon-string semi-hollow 6-stringer with primarily electronic sound.
But I really don't want to build and carve a neck this tim
Read more…Wiring problem
Haven't built anything in a while, but I got a hair to build a "nice" guitar, a four-string electric. Looking for a mellow "hollowbody electric sound.
Got a nice big Las Cabrillas box...
Got everything done over the weekend and started to wire the
Read more…Humbuckers.....
So, I have it in mind to build a "jazz" 4-string. Nice low action, real frets... I just got a very nice large box. I'm wanting to put a humbucker in, something a bit more on the mellow side. Anyone used a full 6-pole pickup? Do you just position the
Read more…Latest project...Lap steel
Decided to build one largely because I had an extra pickup lying around....
Devilishly hard to find useable lumber at a decent price. At least lumber I could work with; one hardwood supplier was happy to sell me a huge maple plank... Sorry bud, pre
Read more…Shielding
I have my lap-steel project about ready to assemble. The cavity for the single-coil pickup is just a hole cit inti the body, and the pickup and the rest of the electrics will be mounted on a pick guard made of 1/8" hardwood ply. Do I need to sheild
Read more…Finished Fiddle
for some reason, my fiddle-related posts and pics seem to have disappeared.
Reposting pics:
Sounds pretty decent.... Must learn to play.....
50.00 slide....
I'm on a number of "regular" guitar forums in addition to this one, and we had a discussion about slide guitar. Being an enthusiastic slide player, I offered a few tips.
One fellow mentioned he'd just bought a 50 dollar slide.
I pointed out that my
Read more…Fiddle ready for final assembly
Just about ready to put together:
Neck finished, tuners installed, bolted on. Used high-security "insert" nuts for the neck. Bridge and tailpiece done.
I don't think I'll glue on the top just yet; I may have to add bracing. I am using a bass ba
Read more…Finished my fiddle.
I put up pics of it ready-to-assemble a bit ago, this is the mostly-finished product:
I went ahead and bought a student bow; big difference. Thing sounds pretty decent, considering that I can't play it..... Nice "fiddley" tone.
Learned a coup
Read more…Fiddle build progress
I've gotten a good start on my fiddle project:
The neck blank is done and I'm ready to cut out the hole for the tuning machines. I'm not going to use friction tuners...
I have the fingerboard cut out, I need to radius that and stain it. I'm goin
Read more…Bows
I've just started laying out a fiddle after looking over all the pics and doing some other research.... But what about bows?
Does everyone use a commercial bow, or are there instructions somewhere for making one?
I seem to recall seeing a web artic
Read more…PBS Folk Music Special
Don't know if anyone caught this, part of PBS's pledge-drive programming. Tons of good stuff on the show, and I was struck at how many of the "folk revival" groups incorporated a tenor guitar.
Pretty standard mix seemed to be a tenor, a regular gu
Read more…Why is my video not showing up?
I did it in MPEG4 format, 640 X 480, and it plays fine on my computer.... Why the green screen?
Camcorder for videos...
So, I've been wanting to post some of my original songs for some time, but I don't really have any decent equipment.
I've tried my digital camera, which actually takes a fairly decent image....But no sound at all to speak of. Certainly nothing you'd
Got an urge....
To make a full-size resonator guitar, a "dobro" if you will. What I have in mind is a cheap/cheesy acoustic guitar and an aluminum "shop-light" reflector for the resonator.
Cut hole, install resonator, fill in sound-hole if necessary, fabricate (or
Angled Pickups
After finishing my 6-string electric, I have a straight-wound pickup left over. (Standard non-humbucking "Strat" pickup)
I want to use this in a four-string..... I see some of the guys angle the pickup so as to more-or-less align with the strings.
N
Wiring Question
So, I'm about to start installing the "guts" from the Strat knockoff I bought into my cigar-box 6-string.
I notice that the plastic pickup-holding plate on the Strat has the interior lined with what appears to be aluminum foil.
I doubt this forms any
Piezo annoyances...
I'm almost done with my latest build, "The Freak" (pics forthcoming) and I went to RS to get one of my usual piezo elements. They were out. So, I picked up a "piezo buzzer" with the little circuit board soldered to the hot element.
No problem, I
Good Recording....
I recently obtained (OK, downloaded) an album called "Blues Masters Vol. 18, Slide guitar classics."
Some gems on this one, Johnny Winter doing "Dallas", Son House doing "Death Letter" Muddy Waters, Elmore James...
One cut stood out, a version of
