Underwood Four String

I cleaned up an old Underwood that had been sitting in a barn for the last twenty years, recycled some old crib frame alder into a support base and added four bottom E strings. Steampunked it up a bit and added a CB Gitty disc piezo that I mounted inside a bottle cap with hot glue and attached to the wood frame. Lots of crazy sounds when run through my guitar effects chain. It actually has some very cool resonance due to all the metal parts. I'll put up a video for a sound demo.
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  • Thank you Bluesheart, Wes Carl, Pick, Uncle John! Turns out it's hard to keep a typewriter in tune. Working on the back-space blues....
  • Darryl Tuttle - Thanks for the heads up on Jeremy Mayer, incredible art!
  • Never seen one of those before!

  • Very nice.  Should play in every key.

  • "different"  award  of the  day!

  • check out an artist named Jeremy Mayer, he makes sculptures out of old typewriters...a lot of them look like robots...good work on your build, cant wait for the video

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