THM's "What on Gods green Earth is he planning now" thread..

[The History Man]

Funny you should say that..........

 

[mk one]

Good, look forward to seeing what you do with it, also how it sounds...

...of course, you are not just limited to strings...

 

[The History Man]

Re:

Saw Howard jones playing something similar but modern recently.

The head scratching will begin once/if it arrives...

It’s got myherpes at the moment.

 

[The History Man]

Re:

The old bamboo the old bamboo.........

 

[Retro Spud]

Nice Chitty Chitty bang bang reference there

 

[The History Man]

The parcel is a work of art.

 

[Peachy!]

Thank you...I aim to please...

 

[The History Man]

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Might start cutting today

 

[yakboy]

Bit late to the party on this one but OMG the best and only proper use of a Trek Y (Sorry Peachy )

NB: no idea why the pic hasn't attached but always fancied building a cigar box guitar and this may be my excuse

 

[The History Man]

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Technical difficulties. I’m an ex toolroom apprentice so shy away from big fast indelicate machinery and a good job too. Setting the neck position without losing the effect of retaining the head tube is problematic as are the pickups as they’re wider than the box section.

Once I’m happy with the datum neck position, everything else will follow.

I have an inelegant solution but despite my reputation for bonkers builds, I hate a bodge.

Carefully hand sawing the frame is taking a while as each cut isn’t full.

More anon.