So I know lots of people use bone for nuts and bridges. but I was wondering if a chicken bone (or a chunk of one) would be strong enough to use as a bridge. I think if I filed down the joint ends of it so it laid flat, it'd be pretty neat to straight
Read more…When I was cleaning out the basement a while ago, I found this old brandy. I was wondering if it'd make a decent body... maybe if I ground notches into the ridge to hold strings that could be a bridge. I'd drill a hole in the bottom and run a thread
Read more…I've been trying to hunt around for a good, reasonably priced amp to use with my mandolin and soon-to-be-built CBG for shows/playing with other people. I've thought about acoustic amps as they replicate the higher tones of mandolins better, most norm
Read more…Feel free to move this to 'Off Topic' or whatever, just thought that a construction question would go in a construction forum.
So I'm starting a kind of downtempo/psychedelia band with my friends (who are on sitar and harp respectively) and was try
Read more…I'm hunting for materials for my first build now, and was wondering what I should do for tuning and such. So far I have some fretwire, tuning pegs, and an EMG Select humbucker pickup. Originally, my idea was to make a stick dulcimer/dulcitar, but now
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