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Deertrax top

Posted by Tracy Tomlinson on January 20, 2011 at 2:35pm
"Deertrax" is almost done! Needs a strap and a little more pizzazz but it lives and sings! Built as a slide guitar so it will only have fret markers when done. Might inlay some thin strips of wood for markers ? For now I'll just mark them on or burn them in. Made from a salad bowl with Bird's eye Maple neck, Oak heel. ...Mahogany Top... painted to enhance the banjo look. Hoof shaped sound holes were the inspiration for the name. Piezo pickup.
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Tags: 3, bowl, mahogany, maple, oak, round, slide, string
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  • Tracy Tomlinson April 23, 2011 at 10:18am
    I really love the sound of this build, a really nice banjo ring to it, I'll hate to sell it!
  • Jon Pruett April 23, 2011 at 12:54am
    I love this build!  I have a thrift shop salad bowl that's been sitting on a shelf for almost a year now. You've given me some solid inspiration to get it down and start cutting. Thanks!
  • Tracy Tomlinson January 24, 2011 at 12:06am

    Thanks Scott....I love how this one sounds too! Maybe if I can sell one of my other ones I could afford a camera that shoots video with sound, to post some clips?

  • Scott Winburn January 23, 2011 at 4:46pm
    Fantastic build Tracy... i love it!
  • Tracy Tomlinson January 22, 2011 at 12:04am
    No the top is glued to the bamboo strip and the bowl lip, it is all solid.
  • GARAGE HERMIT January 21, 2011 at 11:25pm
    right, so the string's pressing on the bridge hold the top on,
  • Tracy Tomlinson January 21, 2011 at 3:50pm
    I used some flat, narrow, bamboo strips from an old blind, and glued them around the inside rim of the bowl just below the top lip. It gave me a nice support all the way around for the top. There is actually a slight convex curve in the top for added strength and tone....seems to work good!
  • GARAGE HERMIT January 21, 2011 at 2:08am
    nice, i like it, how's the mahogany top held in the bowl,??
  • Tracy Tomlinson January 20, 2011 at 8:09pm
    It was a round wooden Salad Bowl I got at the Thrift Shop for two bucks....I really like this one alot too!!!!
  • Rand Moore January 20, 2011 at 6:14pm

    I like the round body on this one. How did you make it? Is it from some cheese box, or did you build it from scratch?

    -Rand.

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