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At 12:32am on May 16, 2010, Bluesheart said…
NP. Now I think you have inspired me to try some woodburning on a future build.
At 11:43am on May 15, 2010, The Valley Boys said…
Good question. I was a little vague. It's actually four parts. Two screws and two threaded posts
inside the box. Look closely at the picture. The holes are smaller than heads of the screws so the bridge is floating on the screws. It works very well. I have another design coming soon. Check stewmac.com and study the Tune-o-matic bridges. I found this was the missing link in the slide/
fingering transition. Hope this helped.
At 11:53am on May 14, 2010, Bluesheart said…
Thanks for the nice comments Doug. It sounds very good w/ the nylon strings both unplugged and plugged in. The short scale keeps the tension low and it is very easy on the fingers, which is what I planned on since she is not a regular player, YET!
Bruce
At 7:54am on May 13, 2010, dogfinger steve said…
cheers doug, was gonna put some brass star surrounds on em but think it looks better without :0)
At 4:28pm on May 4, 2010, uncle Lou said…
You make sweet instruments. My mando is ash strong enough where no truss rod is needed
At 7:11am on April 18, 2010, Mr. Toad said…
Well Doug, I finished it up this morning. There are a few mistakes that I made. I'd like to bring it over some evening and let you look at it and critique it. It sounds better than I thought it would. I tuned it to GDG like you sugested and I haven't glued the bridge down. I hope you're happy with your base and making good music with it.
Jim
At 10:33pm on April 15, 2010, Roosterman said…
Thanks for your kind words Doug :o)
Iv often thought of making a branding iron to stamp my headstocks with, but its just another thing on the long list of things to do at the moment.
I do have a woodburning pen somewhere, but Im useless with it - seems you have it down though!
Keep up the good work
B
At 3:03pm on April 15, 2010, Mr. Toad said…
Doug thank you so much for inviting me over to watch you shape your neck. I did mine the other night. I bought a rasp and used it then finished up with a ro sander. I think it looks pretty good. Yes I would like to see your base guitar and hear it. I would like to wait until I finish my guitar so I could bring it over for you to critiqe it.
Jim
At 3:18pm on April 14, 2010, Mr. Toad said…
That turned out very nice Doug.
At 11:03am on March 19, 2010, Dianne Woods said…
You are right, it is a trial and error thing.
At 9:07pm on March 17, 2010, Dianne Woods said…
You are very welcome, Doug. Thank you for commenting on my tin. I haven't played it, when I tightened the strings, they are pulling the gromlets out of the string holes. I need to change to something else, but haven't done it yet. I did have plastic tops in the holes, but the strings just cut right through them, so I changed them to brass gromlets.
At 6:19am on March 16, 2010, Dianne Woods said…
Very nice builds, and great designs. Great job.
At 2:44am on March 9, 2010, Tom Lanford said…
Thanks Doug!
At 4:56pm on January 27, 2010, Nathan King said…
Hey Doug,
For the most recent build, I bought Artec's AB2 preamp (which comes with a piezo) off ebay. The preamp is pretty decent, I enjoy having a vol and tone right on the box. Yeah, it could be done with pots... but I think the active preamp really helps. Especially in comparison to the "radio shack buzzer" piezo's, this combo really stands out! Course it's around 30 bucks... but one of the first things I noticed is that it doesn't squeal at ya like the buzzers do.
At 4:41pm on January 27, 2010, Mr. Toad said…
Hi Doug. Was that you that I saw at the CONOCO station earlier in the week. I thought maybe it was but I didn't have time to talk. I have a quik request. Could you explain to me again about the zero fret? I thought I had it down but the more I think about it the more I wonder. The scale length I am working on is 20" tell me how the nut comes into play.
I discovered that the banjo neck I was going to use has a twist in it so I'm not going to use it.
Jim
At 2:36pm on January 18, 2010, Doug Thorsvik said…
You can pull down the whole fret template printing program at:
https://api.ning.com/files/YRDxgtQY3DLus7dLdD5579jQaZmCq52RtfNqyKAFmWqsvw8jPZL0S1lw-wgAAPesTgLpuxP06viQ6De*1i1HcpGqo0Y4eq*U/Fret.zip As you consider attaching the banjo neck, you have to calculate if it is possible. Measure from the nut to the 12th fret. The scale length from nut to bridge is twice the length from the nut to the 12th fret. Now you should be able to determine if it is possible to do. Doug
At 10:53am on January 18, 2010, Mr. Toad said…
Hi Doug, Last night I was fooling around with the programs you gave me . They will be very useful but the one that works out the fret template was only a short cut and I couldn't open it. One question. I told you, I think, that I have an old banjo neck. It's got a broken dowel stick and is concave where it attaches to the banjo pot. I want to trim the end flat to fit on a cigarbox. I'm assuming that if I cut off too much that would be a bad thing for the fret placement since the frets are already there and I can't move them. If that is correct do you have any suggestions?
Jim
At 9:26am on January 17, 2010, Ilan Speizer said…
I got it last passover at Wegmans. glad you like it!
At 6:19pm on January 16, 2010, Mr. Toad said…
Thank you for all the information. It only piqued my desires more.
Jim
At 3:15pm on December 10, 2009, dg said…
THANK YOU FOR THE COMMENT DOUG, tell me are all the brown designs on your guitars wood burning or something else?

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