The neck is a hardwood plywood slat from a bed. The box is wood scrap: front and back are 5mm thick 4-ply plywood, and sides are 2 x 3.5 cm pine.Initially the action was much too high, but I lowered it by filing down slot for not and using a nail for the bridge.Intonation is spot-on, after I lowered the action and used Ernie Ball Earthwood strings (5, 4, and 3).
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Thanks, Order99. Of course my first one told me what needed to be better. It sounds a bit dull and the frets were harder than I expected to get right to avoid buzz and to allow a lower action to stop my fingers from getting sore... so I've now made a second that I'm trying to refine further.
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And that's why you build a second, and third, and.... ;-) Great start!
Thanks, Order99. Of course my first one told me what needed to be better. It sounds a bit dull and the frets were harder than I expected to get right to avoid buzz and to allow a lower action to stop my fingers from getting sore... so I've now made a second that I'm trying to refine further.
This...was your FIRST build?
(seethes with envy) :)
"Nice", great use of recycled and scrap timbers, not the only way to do a build, but in my mind the best! :-)