New improved version! Can make a righty or lefty with one set of parts.
The pickup and strap jacks can be switched. Disc piezo is embedded in the 2-part bridge (wires slide through the slots). Chord letters on the neck can be put on either side. A carbon fiber rod provides the support through the neck and body. 15.25" scale length, standard GD tuning (not an octave higher), and should fit in a soprano uke gig bag. E and A ball end classical guitar strings. Quiet unplugged and sounds pretty good plugged in.
As always there is still room for improvement, but these changes fix the strings being too close to the body and the top being super sensitive to any touches when plugged in.
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Thanks for the encouraging words Kale! Fooling around with new ideas has a tendency to pay off. Turns out the revised bridge with the mini disc piezo inside has led to a new dual piezo design that will allow me to resolve the problem with the GGD cigar box guitar where I will be able to control the volume of the quiet weedwacker low G independent of the GD fishing line strings which are much louder. This should allow me to finally realize the sound I had in mind.
Very nice Doug. I like these 3d printed instruments.
I always appreciate you taking notice of the details BrianQ! It takes a while to make sure all of the components fit together, and, hopefully, look halfway decent.
Love the design of the individual parts!