Posted by Rand Moore on September 15, 2011 at 12:49am
Here's a close-up of the Oliva cigar box I used. The bridge sits pretty high because the "slight downward angle" of the neck turned out to be a little too much of an angle and the strings would touch the last few frets until I raised the bridge. The tail piece is red oak, which I hope will be strong enough not to break. I have a history of building excessively weak wooden tail pieces and they tend to break, or pop off, or the string ends up cutting through them. So I need to find a better solution to building tail pieces. That's a small arm rest on the upper left, to avoid the uncomfortable upper edge of the box on the soft underside of my forearm as I pick or strum the instrument.
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