Mock up of a headless cbg design
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Scale length will be standard 25 inch ish. Common strings will be fine.
Makes me think a bit of the Steinberger guitars of the 80's
very impressive. please post photos in progress. one inquiry? what is the scale length? i'm working on a unique tuning system on a guitar, and realized the strings wouldn't be long enough. i'll make it work, just some adjustments necessary. i mage a stand up bass so tall that i had to use a piano string. haven't been able to find long guitar strings.......a through neck is best, and this system you have also will "balance" the neck, keeping it straight. i've often wanted to put a heavy bass sting on the back of any neck to create tension, instead of a truss rod....nice work!
The tuning heads will be arranged side by side in a cavity on the back of the guitar. Though it won’t be apparent from the front, there will be a walled off pocket a hair south of the bridge, on the back side, that you’ll reach into in order to tune the guitar. When playing, the cavity with the timers will be against the belly. The string bobbin side of the turning heads will be recessed, accessed from the bottom of the guitar, to the rear of the bottom end of the through neck, below the tailpiece. So a string goes on upside down. The ball end anchored through the stub of the headstock, over a 4mm stainless steel cross pin trapped against the bone nut, over the nut and on down to and over the bridge, a common wooden bridge, over the roller in the tailpiece, and makes a ninety degree turn toward the tuning peg. The center string will go directly as I stated. The other two will need slight redirecting to get straight pull on the roller, making a slight turn over an idler roller. From the face, the only clue will be the exposed roller tailpiece. Otherwise the soundboard will be clean except for the surface mount humbucker. Even the knobs are gonna be stealthy. It’s a far cry from a quick and dirty cbg, yet still holds to the concept with a straight through neck, and more or less rectangular red cedar box. I’m thinking it ends up balancing so you could hold it up by two fingers right about under the pickup, maybe a bit forward of that, near the soundboard end of the fretboard.
very interesting. can't wait to see where the strings go.......
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