• MrJameGumb@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I love the look of this thing and all the ingenuity involved lol! I showed it to a buddy of mine I work on guitars with though and we both were wondering how you plan on accounting for the lack of a truss rod in that classical neck whenever you eventually put steel strings on it?

    • phant@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Thanks! In this project I adopted the approach of “Do first, think later” which has been really liberating. So I’ll probs just whack the steel strings on and see what happens. There is an Allen head visible at the base of the neck tho, so this cheapy may have a truss rod.

  • phant@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I assume there will be questions… it was built from a cheap, small classical guitar to be something I could travel with~
    The pickup you see is not currently wired up (dun worry I know it won’t work with nylon strings - it’s there if/when I wanna try steel strings.) There is a piezo pickup under the bridge at the moment. The strings route over the roller bridge, around another set of rollers and then to tuners - which is the headstock I chopped off the neck.
    It’s pretty quiet and gross, but also fun to play and work on for a laugh.

  • TexasDrunk@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I love this guitar. Why do you have to post awesome stuff like this while I already have several projects going on?

    • phant@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Thanks haha, I did/do have plans to make something that doesn’t slice into the back of my neck, but I agree, the twine aesthetic is too appropriate for now.