Build #27. My first reso. Paint can lid, oak neck. Final assembly, stringing, and tuning all done this morning. Probably still needs some tweaking, but for now it's done.
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Thanks. It doesn't sound quite as good as it looks. It's a pretty muddy, nasty sound, but it grows on you. It's that old chain-gang-walking-down-a-dirt-road sound. My only complaint is that it doesn't have much sustain. When I slide up the neck, the note dies off pretty quick, and I'm just left with slide on the strings. It's okay on short slides, though. I'm learning what to do with it.
What's sad is how it sounds plugged in. I didn't have a piezo handy, so I cut the speaker out of a musical greeting card and used that. I don't know if it's shortcomings of using the speaker as a pickup, or if it's just a matter of bad placement, but it sounds like crap. You have to turn the volume all the way up, and the gain most of the way up, to hear it, and it doesn't sound good when you do. All in all, I'm satisfied. I've never had a perfect build, and I didn't expect one this time.
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Thanks. It doesn't sound quite as good as it looks. It's a pretty muddy, nasty sound, but it grows on you. It's that old chain-gang-walking-down-a-dirt-road sound. My only complaint is that it doesn't have much sustain. When I slide up the neck, the note dies off pretty quick, and I'm just left with slide on the strings. It's okay on short slides, though. I'm learning what to do with it.
What's sad is how it sounds plugged in. I didn't have a piezo handy, so I cut the speaker out of a musical greeting card and used that. I don't know if it's shortcomings of using the speaker as a pickup, or if it's just a matter of bad placement, but it sounds like crap. You have to turn the volume all the way up, and the gain most of the way up, to hear it, and it doesn't sound good when you do. All in all, I'm satisfied. I've never had a perfect build, and I didn't expect one this time.
Yes, it is a beauty. Hope it sounds good as it looks.
That's a beauty!