Finished this one up last night waiting for the effects of Hurricane Sandy to show up. The mountain peaks on the neck indicate fret positions 3,5,7,10,12,15 & 17. Cheapy strat pickup under the lid on the treble side. Banjo bridge from Stew Mac.Tuned GDGB at the moment with electric strings. I opened the wrong bag. I think I'll eventually go to heavier acoustic strings and change the tuning. The higher G and B strings sound pretty week compared with the lower G and D wound strings.
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True, a good plan generally results in more accurate work. I have found that the fun level is a little flat, however. This git is not technically my best or most polished build, but the joy I found while creating it is unmatched from any of my previous. And that's all I care about, really. I'm not selling any of these. Especially now that I have two locations to stash, er, display them.
I think we would have better builds over all if we would plan them and be meticulous in building. But the spontaneous ones are so much fun to build and some times you get great result like this one.
The git is surprisingly loud acoustically. When plugged in it has a nice tone and not much (excellent) distortion like I would get with the pup on the strings. I'm pretty happy with it, but I'm anxious to get heavier wound strings on it. Probably retune to DADf# using EADG strings.
We're back in NY now and we miss CO every day. This git is a nice reminder of our time out west. The plates were from my wife's car. My plates off the Jeep are a little mangled from the mountains.
lol:-D I hear ya ED! They ran I-80 down that long flat drag along the Platte River for a reason. Works out better if you are driving with the wind, I have made the trip to CO and Sterling is NOT the end of the the long flat road. If you ever have the time and want to see some pretty country head through the north side of Nebraska and Iowa, very pretty country in that half of the 2 states.
Hows the git sound ED? I have made a few license plate reso's and really like the way they sound.
I know the drive across I-80 all too well from when we used to live in Golden, CO and drive back to NY to visit family. At least you can drive at a good speed across NE. At 55 mph, I think I'd rather send a post card for the holidays.
I still remember when we moved from NY to CO in a 23' Penske truck. Gov set at 55 or 60 and we drove into the wind across IA, then the wind picked up in NE and took us forever. And when we hit the CO border at Sterling we celebrated. Then we realized we were still going to have a long drive across some of the ugliest real estate in the country. We had to stop to relieve ourselves in an area that had no services. We opened both doors of the truck at the same time and everything that wasn't bolted down blew across the prairie.
I like it ED! That's cool that you could line the mountains up with the fret marks, looks awesome man. I would have a pretty boring git if I tried that with the mountain peaks we have in Nebraska.
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True, a good plan generally results in more accurate work. I have found that the fun level is a little flat, however. This git is not technically my best or most polished build, but the joy I found while creating it is unmatched from any of my previous. And that's all I care about, really. I'm not selling any of these. Especially now that I have two locations to stash, er, display them.
I think we would have better builds over all if we would plan them and be meticulous in building. But the spontaneous ones are so much fun to build and some times you get great result like this one.
Thanks for the compliments, guys.
I had no plan, no paper for this build. Just let it flow. It was my fastest build from start to finish.
Excellent. Those Colorado Rockies fret markers were an inspiration. Took it from good to great.
Love the fret markers. Would work nice for a lap steel. Nice design....
The git is surprisingly loud acoustically. When plugged in it has a nice tone and not much (excellent) distortion like I would get with the pup on the strings. I'm pretty happy with it, but I'm anxious to get heavier wound strings on it. Probably retune to DADf# using EADG strings.
We're back in NY now and we miss CO every day. This git is a nice reminder of our time out west. The plates were from my wife's car. My plates off the Jeep are a little mangled from the mountains.
lol:-D I hear ya ED! They ran I-80 down that long flat drag along the Platte River for a reason. Works out better if you are driving with the wind, I have made the trip to CO and Sterling is NOT the end of the the long flat road. If you ever have the time and want to see some pretty country head through the north side of Nebraska and Iowa, very pretty country in that half of the 2 states.
Hows the git sound ED? I have made a few license plate reso's and really like the way they sound.
Thanks Maddog.
I know the drive across I-80 all too well from when we used to live in Golden, CO and drive back to NY to visit family. At least you can drive at a good speed across NE. At 55 mph, I think I'd rather send a post card for the holidays.
I still remember when we moved from NY to CO in a 23' Penske truck. Gov set at 55 or 60 and we drove into the wind across IA, then the wind picked up in NE and took us forever. And when we hit the CO border at Sterling we celebrated. Then we realized we were still going to have a long drive across some of the ugliest real estate in the country. We had to stop to relieve ourselves in an area that had no services. We opened both doors of the truck at the same time and everything that wasn't bolted down blew across the prairie.
I like it ED! That's cool that you could line the mountains up with the fret marks, looks awesome man. I would have a pretty boring git if I tried that with the mountain peaks we have in Nebraska.