So this is my first build I've been watching and learning on this site for the past month or so and eventually built one. Thanks to Juju for his advice from the interview i did with him on my blog.
So this is England and we don't have the oversized CBs available so easy over here, but we do have LOTS of biscuit tins, i found this Christmas themed Scottish Shortbread tin on the street yesterday, after a few days looking in shops for something similar, so its an authentic junk guitar, a Biscuit Tin Guitar, has anyone else made one?
As my first attempt its far from perfect but I learnt a lot and next time will know to do a few things differently. For example I decided this morning I would go and buy a spokeshave to shape the back of the neck, this was a wasted £15 really as even after sharpening it I couldn't get it to cut right so i ditched that idea and just went for a sanded neck. Will have to spend more time with the spokeshave on some junk wood later on, as its not as easy as it looked on you tube ;(
I raped and pillaged some shit guitars I had laying around for the machine heads, pickup, electronics, pot and bridge pins. Put it all together this afternoon in my room making a complete mess and after about 4-5 hours i had this little beauty.
The action is really high, and plays a nice slide and as you;d expect has a really tinny harsh sound to it, i'll post a song at some point these instruments really do inspire you when writing songs.
Look forward to making more and would appreciate feed back and any advice
Dirty X
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In this build the box is only there to hold the electronics and other elements together. As the bridge does not act upon any soundboard, the pickup and amp are the sole source of sound.
Don
Not entirely true. The bridge is connected to the box indirectly by the neck/tailpiece so there will almost certainly be some sympathetic resonance - not the same as if the bridge was mounted directly on the tin but it will affect the overall sound of the instrument. Also, the pickup is mounted on the box, so any movement of the top of the box will add to the relative movement between pickup and strings.
Don Thompson said:In this build the box is only there to hold the electronics and other elements together. As the bridge does not act upon any soundboard, the pickup and amp are the sole source of sound.
Don
http://www.akzstudios.com/DIDDLEYBOW2.html
where does the sound come from? A small tin, hence small sound unless plugged in.
http://www.mcld.co.uk/oddmu/danbau/
again, very faint sound without being plugged in. I could go on indefinately but no need. Built them all, I know what I hear. This is NOT an acoustic instrument. Hey, I have an idea, let the builder record it unplugged, I want to hear the magical resonance that against all laws of acoustics comes forth. Secondly, and I agree the position and material a pickup is mounted on affects it's tone. Been proven many times over. A solid body willl sound different than a hollow body however in those instances the Bridge Is in Contact With The Top of the Guitar. The builder could have used a pizza box and the sound will be so close as I doubt even a person with golden ears could hear a difference blindfolded.
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