Almond?! That's nuts. Huh. I don't have big hands and still don't mind if the neck is thick top to bottom. Like em no thicker than need be for side to side. Nice git and description.
Whoops, Yar Uncle John, I suppose some description would be good eh?
Neck- Some scrap, believe it or not almond I had been working with, I was nervous about it so the neck is a finished thickness of 1-3/16" thick, feels real good in my rather large hands though. Fretboard is a piece of red oak, inlaid fret markers, and marked fret positions for the slide.
Body- Sides are the same almond scrap at 1-5/8" thick. The top and bottom are some 3/16" birch ply I had lying around. The resonator is in fact a paint lid! Green face is a poor mans wood stain and the fretboard is some Minwax gun-stock stain I had collecting dust on a shelf.
Tail stock is really just a hinge with an extra hole added for that third string, the lowering device is a scrap piece of brass I had in a drawer, inset nuts in the through-body and used some brass machine screws to adjust tension, not bad for an afternoon really....
Thanks and sorry if this was too much, I'm an all or nuthin kinda guy....
Yeah, Richey is spot on. The string lowering device too. Paint can? Would be good to give us some description. I like what you are doing, especially the diddley. One thing I do now that increases my enjoyment is to cut my own tailpieces out of sheet metal. Could cut em out of a paint can too.
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Almond?! That's nuts. Huh. I don't have big hands and still don't mind if the neck is thick top to bottom. Like em no thicker than need be for side to side. Nice git and description.
-Facepalm-
Whoops, Yar Uncle John, I suppose some description would be good eh?
Neck- Some scrap, believe it or not almond I had been working with, I was nervous about it so the neck is a finished thickness of 1-3/16" thick, feels real good in my rather large hands though. Fretboard is a piece of red oak, inlaid fret markers, and marked fret positions for the slide.
Body- Sides are the same almond scrap at 1-5/8" thick. The top and bottom are some 3/16" birch ply I had lying around. The resonator is in fact a paint lid! Green face is a poor mans wood stain and the fretboard is some Minwax gun-stock stain I had collecting dust on a shelf.
Tail stock is really just a hinge with an extra hole added for that third string, the lowering device is a scrap piece of brass I had in a drawer, inset nuts in the through-body and used some brass machine screws to adjust tension, not bad for an afternoon really....
Thanks and sorry if this was too much, I'm an all or nuthin kinda guy....
Yeah, Richey is spot on. The string lowering device too. Paint can? Would be good to give us some description. I like what you are doing, especially the diddley. One thing I do now that increases my enjoyment is to cut my own tailpieces out of sheet metal. Could cut em out of a paint can too.
Some good innovation down at the tailpiece there.