This is the prototype of a new instrument I have been working on. It is like a fretless cigar box guitar but it has a stainless steel fingerboard so as to ge...
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in fact it balances almost perfectly as i put the headstock at the other end, so i quite like the heavy neck. as for working with it, i don't have to cut it at all, i just bought a stainless steel bar in the dimensions i required. it's also cheaper than aluminium i think
it's a carved oak neck with a stainless steel fingerboard glued on with epoxy . i made it headless to balance it better as the fingerboard is very heavy
Yeah, i make quite a lot of fretless cbgs to sell, but with the stainless steel fingerboard the sustain you get really makes it into something else. I play this one on a few songs with my band, hopefully we'll be recording some stuff with it soon.
i'm real interested in this, seen a french made fretless being demonstrated , and i see incredible, opportunity, for expression, with this type of instrument bending notes up and down the neck, like a slide only without one. very nice sound from yours !!!
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very sweet clean sound...nice Its like a lullaby cbg:)
Great looking instrument and your play is the same, great.
in fact it balances almost perfectly as i put the headstock at the other end, so i quite like the heavy neck. as for working with it, i don't have to cut it at all, i just bought a stainless steel bar in the dimensions i required. it's also cheaper than aluminium i think
I would bet the neck is heavy what about aluminum stainless is so hard to work with.
sweet
it's a carved oak neck with a stainless steel fingerboard glued on with epoxy . i made it headless to balance it better as the fingerboard is very heavy
is just the fingerboard metal or the whole neck? it sounds bitchin'
Interesting...
Yeah, i make quite a lot of fretless cbgs to sell, but with the stainless steel fingerboard the sustain you get really makes it into something else. I play this one on a few songs with my band, hopefully we'll be recording some stuff with it soon.
i'm real interested in this, seen a french made fretless being demonstrated , and i see incredible, opportunity, for expression, with this type of instrument bending notes up and down the neck, like a slide only without one. very nice sound from yours !!!