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Post by Harkovast on Feb 9, 2018 21:44:53 GMT
Haha that's awesome! So it will be an actual electric guitar that plays?
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Post by wordweaver3 on Feb 9, 2018 23:04:42 GMT
Oh, yeah. It'll plug right into an amp. My nephew found a Fender Stratocaster pickup at a guitar shop for 10 bucks, which even used was a steal. Outside of the pickup there's really not much to the electronics of a guitar, so going the extra step isn't much more work. It'll function similar to a hollow body except with much softer acoustics due to the small volume of resonance space.
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Post by Horsie on Feb 9, 2018 23:37:10 GMT
Perhaps a bedpan? This seems to be pretty popular for building a guitar.
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Post by wordweaver3 on Feb 10, 2018 4:34:45 GMT
Bedpans are popular, though it's no easy chore to find a steel one nowadays. If you use metal on the body of a guitar it'll impart a much sharper tone than wood. A cigar box gives you a very mellow sounding instrument. I don't think my nephew is interested in anything that sounds tinny or banjo.
Really, you can build a guitar out of anything that can resonate, which is basically everything that isn't a liquid or gas.
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Post by Canuovea on Feb 10, 2018 5:09:19 GMT
Lead guitar then?
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Post by wordweaver3 on Feb 10, 2018 5:41:38 GMT
"Lead" as opposed to rhythm or "lead" the metal?
I suppose a lead guitar would go over as well as a led Zeppelin.
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Post by Canuovea on Feb 10, 2018 6:34:51 GMT
It was an inadvertent pun.
The metal.
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Post by Harkovast on Feb 10, 2018 14:42:27 GMT
I assumed that was lead as in the main guitar player. Its funy how english has these issues but you dont notice till it comes up.
Americans and Canadians, you are welcome for the nonsense communication we imparted to you. No need for thanks.
I really want to see this guitar when its done, it seems a cool concept. The creative stuff I build is all model space ship related....speaking of which I should post some more stuff when I get chance.
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Post by Horsie on Feb 10, 2018 21:40:51 GMT
I can't create anything, I'm best at refinishing stuff. I've got a rifle stock in the works right now, and if I can find some nice furniture that needs work (and for a good price) I'm thinking of trying my hand at furniture repair and upholstery.
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Post by Harkovast on Feb 11, 2018 2:36:20 GMT
That's a good skill. To me that's still like a making stuff type ability. Fixing thing that are broken.
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Post by Horsie on Feb 11, 2018 3:07:47 GMT
If I start working with furniture it'll give me a chance to experiment with different finishes and finish applications too. Right now I'm just using double boiled linseed oil on rifle stocks (I used tung oil on some, on the advice of others, but the finish is too light, and I may go back and strip those stocks down and refinish them again with linseed oil), linseed oil is what was used on a lot of military rifles back in the day, but even there were some mixtures involving everything from colouring agents to beeswax added to the linseed oil, and places like H&H use their own oil blends for finishing their stocks for (very high end) commercial rifles and shotguns.
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Post by Harkovast on Feb 11, 2018 3:25:28 GMT
See I know nothing about this. My arts and crafts skills are pretty limited. I know how to make polystrene bits look like asteroids! (Stick them on bases, Cover them in watered down glue, cover that in sand. Spray paint it black and them brush it with some brown or grey.)
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Post by Horsie on Feb 11, 2018 4:01:00 GMT
This stuff is fairly easy; Google what you need to buy for the finish, or what you need to combine and how, remove the old finish (I use a stripper and scour pads, that's not recommended, but this stuff hasn't damaged any wood I've used it on and it even draws out old grease and oil), apply the new finish, and wipe off the excess after a few minutes. I don't tend to remove dents or anything like that, most of what I'm working on are old service rifles that had the stocks refinished by Russians or backyard gunsmiths with a can of cheap shellac, old service rifles have usually earned whatever dents they have (among the ones I've redone, one is a Canadian WW1 Ross that someone shellacked after the war, one is a German Mauser captured by the Russians, and another is a Romanian-issue Czechoslovakian Mauser captured by the Russians, all of them saw action, the latter two probably saw some pretty brutal fighting).
I couldn't paint those little models of yours if my life depended on it, certainly not the details.
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Post by Harkovast on Feb 11, 2018 4:10:40 GMT
You should post some pictures of your furniture repairs when you give it a go. Show us the before and after.
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Post by Horsie on Feb 11, 2018 5:33:29 GMT
Yeah, it might be a while though, most of the stuff I've found around here has been cheap new crap, or older stuff that people think is antique and want way too much for.
I did work a cabinet while I was off work though, I picked it up for about $100, painted it, and sold it for a profit, but I don't have any photos of it.
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