Posted by Tim LaFave on September 2, 2016 at 9:13am
Just completed this six-string, acoustic electric wine box guitar. I built it from a box that had held three bottles of Riunite wine. I bought the empty box from a second-hand store for $2.
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Thanks guys; in answer to your neck question ... I have built several six-stringers without truss rods and they are fine. I use two techniques 1.) always, on all of my builds, I choose wood with a slight bow in it, both neck wood and fret-board, and build it curved side down so that when string tension is applied, it tends to want to pull the neck back straight. 2.) On full-scale guitars, I usually split the neck and laminate another piece of wood in the middle. This feature gives additional support. It is similar to the way guitars used to be built before truss rods came along. In this case, because the neck is shorter it will stand up to the string tension better, so I didn't need to to that.
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Thanks for the answer, Tim. Makes a lot of sense to me.
Thanks guys; in answer to your neck question ... I have built several six-stringers without truss rods and they are fine. I use two techniques 1.) always, on all of my builds, I choose wood with a slight bow in it, both neck wood and fret-board, and build it curved side down so that when string tension is applied, it tends to want to pull the neck back straight. 2.) On full-scale guitars, I usually split the neck and laminate another piece of wood in the middle. This feature gives additional support. It is similar to the way guitars used to be built before truss rods came along. In this case, because the neck is shorter it will stand up to the string tension better, so I didn't need to to that.
"Riunite... that's nice..." ;-)
So with a six-string, did you need to reinforce the neck in any way? Like a truss rod? Very cool job, Tim!
yep .,.,thats the way to do it.,.,xcellent.,,.