AGP #293 - “5 Buck Jerry”(3 String Jerry Can Guitar)Scale : 685.8mm / 27 inchesStrings : .036NW / .022NW / .017NW /Tuning: A / E / a /As the name suggests the 10 litre Jerry Can was a $5 purchase from the local Rubbish Dump Recycling Shop, a cheap ($3.41 AU) 4k Ebay Bass Type Pickup is hardwired to the Jack, the Neck is Tasmanian Oak, stained with green food colouring and coated with Hide Glue and Cream Paint to achieve a Crackle finish, it was an attempt to match the can, but!, too much green leached through, so it is what it is!, the Fretboard is some sort of unknown (to me) Hardwood which was also a Dumpster find, and the Machine Heads are 3 of my still large supply of Piano Tuner Pins.
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"Thanks Mr Bones", the missus is away all this week, so I'm going to try to find the time, and then get into the habit of posting some Videos of my builds, even thou my repertoire of tunes is to say the least limited !!
"Thanks James O Lunsford", probably to the displeasure of the neighbours, I've already filled it up with some Blues and Hard Rock, and poured some of it out, like a couple of my Junky Type builds lately, this one does "Rock"
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"Thanks Maddog"
This just oozes COOL!
"Thanks Mr Bones", the missus is away all this week, so I'm going to try to find the time, and then get into the habit of posting some Videos of my builds, even thou my repertoire of tunes is to say the least limited !!
"Thanks James O Lunsford", probably to the displeasure of the neighbours, I've already filled it up with some Blues and Hard Rock, and poured some of it out, like a couple of my Junky Type builds lately, this one does "Rock"
"Thanks Jeff 'Bones' Reilly", couldn't walk past it at the Dump Recycle Shop last week :-)
Ready to be fill up with some Blues and be pored out Cool
There's always a bit of "Gas" in the shed, when I'm building pick :-D
tha'ts a gas ;-)