Re: How difficult is it to build a guitar?
Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2013 7:09 am
kosta wrote:Thanks man! The body is just a few slabs of 1x18 pine. Pretty awesome idea, and really easy to work with. The real genius of the design though is that it has a pickup behind the bridge and an additional, second bridge in the tail. This creates a fixed third octave in the non-fretted strings behind the first bridge that ring these really awesome harmonics in the rear pickup. It has an additional output jack and switching options so that you can route both pickups to one jack or split them to separate jacks. Pretty fun to play, and it sounds like nothing else.
Mick / Phantasmagorovich did this workshop too, so he has one as well. As a matter of fact, here he is playing it in a police impound lot in Amsterdam.
Dutch ILF'er Toonster has one too:
The pickup behind the bridge is a rad idea. I built a Cigar Box Guitar a while ago. Sounds awesomely crap when plinking around on the strings behind the bridge for horrible percussive noises. I used a $3 transducer pickup but a proper coil wound one would sound graet down there.
Thread about it here : http://www.ilovefuzz.com/viewtopic.php?f=149&t=16452
