A build that did not go well - Lengthy description included - Photos

El Rey Del Mundo Deuce: Nice little box. Fair tap tone.Goals: Good playing 2 string. Short scale because the proportions seemed to call for short ~ and comfy. Keep it simple. Make it strong. Fretted.Materials: Laminated oak and maple neck~ broke the keep it simple goal right of the mark by laminating the woods. But still pretty simple. Piezo.Problems: Piss poor intonation. Sounded crappy. I screwed up the frets ~ not precisely where they belonged. G strummed open should be G at the 12th fret. It was not. Short scale 48cm /19 inches. The shorter the scale the harder it is to get right on intonation. I failed badly. Also, the angle from nut to the tuners was not right.Fixes – no fixes - improvements: A cut down spoon for a string guide/lowering device. Worked well. In this case, the worst intonation problem mostly involved the nut – on which I had used a jumbo fret for a zero fret. I was able to improve this by using a cut down bolt and counter sinking it. Better after that, but not good. Lots of messing with saddles got it as good as I can make it. Funny, it does not like GD tuning… Tune it to up to AE and it is better. These gits often like a certain tuning.Final Result After A Rocky Road: I rate it a 5.5 on a 10 point scale. Too good to junk out and cute. Not very loud either acoustic or plugged. Tone not great. Fair…Plan: Sell it at a very token amount to a guy that keeps asking me to sell him one. He does not play (yet) and this will be an okay starter guitar. I will help him get started.

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