Heavily inspired by Uncle Crow and his great cardboard design3 strings (bottom wound + 2 plain, because one wound snapped, so I had to think quickly - alternative tuning maybe?)3ply cardboardNeck-on-top, cherry - finished with raw linseed oilEyebolt wingnut tunersHand wound spring for reverbExperimetally placed piezo + 0.01uF capacitor
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Those tuners are more or less set-and-forget. Tuning to any given note might be a bit more difficult than usual tuners. Bu I like those :) plain, primitive and pure.
About the peg head - the eyebolts I bought were too short to go through whole neck, so some sawing was necessary and I went fancy with it :) glad you liked it!
That is really something. I think that kind of tuner is kind of a pain in the butt, but they are perfect with this guitar. Good job. I would sure like to hear it. Great idea on that peg head too.
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Those tuners are more or less set-and-forget. Tuning to any given note might be a bit more difficult than usual tuners. Bu I like those :) plain, primitive and pure.
About the peg head - the eyebolts I bought were too short to go through whole neck, so some sawing was necessary and I went fancy with it :) glad you liked it!
That is really something. I think that kind of tuner is kind of a pain in the butt, but they are perfect with this guitar. Good job. I would sure like to hear it. Great idea on that peg head too.
I had a cardboard box mountain dulcimer with the fingerboard of pine. It sounded good! I changed the box to cedar and I still have it.
@Glenn Kaiser thanks!
Cardboard is very nice and fun to build with. I plan the next build to be hardened with glue, and painted with acrylics.
fun!
You ROCK Tomasz... I plan on eventually creating a simply 1 string diddley bow fully cardboard w. a pickup. Cool! -Glenn