I'm building a 6-string electric license plate guitar with a hardtail bridge. Most of the builds I've seen use floating bridges and tailpieces, so I'm having a little trouble figuring this out on my own. Does the area under the bridge need
I'm thinking of building a resonator 6-string with a vintage 1965 license plate. In your collective experience, will the plate be able to take the string pressure by itself, or will I need to put in braces?
I'm thinking of building a resonator 6-string with a vintage 1965 license plate. In your collective experience, will the plate be able to take the string pressure by itself, or will I need to put in braces?
Just finished my first full-scale build. I had planned to use a 25-inch scale length with a zero fret. I downloaded a template from one of those generator sites, laid out everything nice and neat, put my bridge 25 inches away from that zero fret...
I've got a piece of red oak that I plan to use as a fingerboard on my latest build. Thing has a slight bend to it: not pronounced, but you can see daylight between it and the neck if you put them together. Should I go through the trouble of st