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- Sun Apr 29, 2012 7:59 pm
- Forum: The Local Materials Challenge (Closed)
- Topic: $100 local materials challenge David Frassetto's Gottan (Completed 5/2/12)
- Replies: 23
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Re: $100 local materials challenge David Frassetto's Gottan
I also made the azuma sawari. This is a device that sits under the lowest string and is adjustable to get a buzzing sound from the open string, kinda like a sitar. I used a small tee nut, cut down and glued to a piece of bone left over from a saddle blank (I never throw any bone pieces away, they co...
- Sun Apr 29, 2012 7:50 pm
- Forum: The Local Materials Challenge (Closed)
- Topic: $100 local materials challenge David Frassetto's Gottan (Completed 5/2/12)
- Replies: 23
- Views: 78797
Re: $100 local materials challenge David Frassetto's Gottan
I thinned the top and glued it on this past week.
- Sat Apr 28, 2012 4:06 pm
- Forum: Bowed Stringed Instruments and Bows
- Topic: latest from my bench
- Replies: 23
- Views: 33202
Re: latest from my bench
Stunning! I could get lost in that back. Great work as usual.
- Mon Apr 23, 2012 11:37 pm
- Forum: The Local Materials Challenge (Closed)
- Topic: $100 local materials challenge David Frassetto's Gottan (Completed 5/2/12)
- Replies: 23
- Views: 78797
Re: $100 local materials challenge David Frassetto's Gottan
Some more progress to report. I finished shapeing the neck and peg box today. It took longer than usual because I had to stop frequently due to the nerve damage I suffered recently. Rapid repitative motions like sanding and filing cause my arms to sieze up so I have to stop and let the nerves calm d...
- Mon Apr 23, 2012 5:51 pm
- Forum: Solid-Body and Chambered or Semi-Solid Electric Guitars and Bass Guitars
- Topic: Looking for Danelectro convertible information.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3712
Re: Looking for Danelectro convertible information.
I don't own a convertable anymore but the neck on the one I had was adjustable with an allen screw like the three bolt Fender necks from the 70's. The neck angles of my other Danos are between 1.5 and 2 degrees but some of them are shimmed. If memory serves me, the bridge was about .25" thick, ...
- Sun Apr 22, 2012 11:31 pm
- Forum: Solid-Body and Chambered or Semi-Solid Electric Guitars and Bass Guitars
- Topic: Robert Follett's Firebird V
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7529
Re: Robert Follett's Firebird V
What a beauty! I bet it just screams. Great job!
- Sun Apr 22, 2012 11:22 pm
- Forum: Solid-Body and Chambered or Semi-Solid Electric Guitars and Bass Guitars
- Topic: Jim Bonnell's most recent build
- Replies: 9
- Views: 9620
Re: Jim Bonnell's most recent build
Great work Jim. I like the simplicity and the distressing makes it look like an old classic.
- Sat Apr 21, 2012 1:08 pm
- Forum: The Local Materials Challenge (Closed)
- Topic: $100 local materials challenge David Frassetto's Gottan (Completed 5/2/12)
- Replies: 23
- Views: 78797
Re: $100 local materials challenge David Frassetto's Gottan
A little more done today. I cut the blanks out for the neck, heel, and peg box and glued them up.
- Fri Apr 20, 2012 11:24 pm
- Forum: Solid-Body and Chambered or Semi-Solid Electric Guitars and Bass Guitars
- Topic: Carving Necks
- Replies: 28
- Views: 26386
Re: Carving Necks
Rasps, files, scrapers, and sandpaper. I'll have to talk to my friend and get some pieces of pyrex and give that a try. Having worked with glass for 27 years I know how easy it will slice you up even when your being extra careful!
- Fri Apr 20, 2012 11:07 pm
- Forum: Solid-Body and Chambered or Semi-Solid Electric Guitars and Bass Guitars
- Topic: Paul Gransee's 7th Bass
- Replies: 25
- Views: 26473
Re: Paul Gransee's 7th Bass
Great job! I love the way the knots and the string retainer on the back look like a face<G>. The inlay on the neck is well executed and looks great. Nice touch.
- Fri Apr 20, 2012 11:34 am
- Forum: The Local Materials Challenge (Closed)
- Topic: $100 local materials challenge David Frassetto's Gottan (Completed 5/2/12)
- Replies: 23
- Views: 78797
Re: $100 local materials challenge David Frassetto's Gottan
For those of you who might be interested I'm useing Kyle Abbott's book Shamisen of Japan as a resource for this build. You can check out his site at www.Bachido.com for more information on building and playing the shamisen. The gottan I'm building is going to be a gift for my daughter's Japanese gir...
- Fri Apr 20, 2012 11:22 am
- Forum: The Local Materials Challenge (Closed)
- Topic: $100 local materials challenge David Frassetto's Gottan (Completed 5/2/12)
- Replies: 23
- Views: 78797
Re: $100 local materials challenge David Frassetto's Gottan
Then I cut the body sides out, beveled the ends and started to glue it together. The body is 8x9", just enough to get from one 3 foot long poplar 1x3. This is the darkest piece of poplar I've seen, almost purple in places.
- Fri Apr 20, 2012 11:16 am
- Forum: The Local Materials Challenge (Closed)
- Topic: $100 local materials challenge David Frassetto's Gottan (Completed 5/2/12)
- Replies: 23
- Views: 78797
Re: $100 local materials challenge David Frassetto's Gottan
I got some work done yesterday, After squaring up the edges on the shooting board I glued the top plate together.
- Thu Apr 19, 2012 1:06 pm
- Forum: The Local Materials Challenge (Closed)
- Topic: $100 local materials challenge David Frassetto's Gottan (Completed 5/2/12)
- Replies: 23
- Views: 78797
$100 local materials challenge David Frassetto's Gottan (Completed 5/2/12)
For my next build I'm going to attempt to make a Japanese gottan. The gottan is the poor mans shamisen, a three string banjo like instrument. The gottan differs in that it has a wooden head instead of one made out of cat skin. I will be making it out of poplar and maple from the Depot, and some othe...
- Thu Apr 19, 2012 12:57 pm
- Forum: The Local Materials Challenge (Closed)
- Topic: $100 local materials challenge, David Frassetto's lapsteel (Completed 4/13/12)
- Replies: 33
- Views: 85828
Re: $100 local materials challenge, David Frassetto's lapsteel
Jason, Thomas, Andrew, and Eddie, Thank you ! I wasn't trying to be the first to finish but as I said in the opening post, medical issues are keeping me home so I have too much time on my hands. Hopefully the neuro-opthamologist will clear me to return to work when I see her next week. After all, if...
- Mon Apr 16, 2012 9:59 pm
- Forum: Solid-Body and Chambered or Semi-Solid Electric Guitars and Bass Guitars
- Topic: Evan Kingma's electric 12 string [Pictures]
- Replies: 30
- Views: 18874
Re: Evan Kingma's electric 12 string [Pictures]
Great job Evan and John, that is so much better than anything you could buy! I love that National Crestwood shape and 3 P90's, man-o-man!
- Mon Apr 16, 2012 9:49 pm
- Forum: Flat-Top Acoustic Guitars and Bass Guitars
- Topic: Eddie McRae - BluesHound biscuit-bridge resonator
- Replies: 20
- Views: 16664
Re: Eddie McRae - BluesHound biscuit-bridge resonator
Great job! That burst is beautiful. Can't wait to see the tricone.
- Sat Apr 14, 2012 12:28 pm
- Forum: Solid-Body and Chambered or Semi-Solid Electric Guitars and Bass Guitars
- Topic: Eddie McRae - Dead Man's Hand custom T-Type
- Replies: 14
- Views: 15746
Re: Eddie McRae - Dead Man's Hand custom T-Type
A simple concept well executed! Great Job!
- Sat Apr 14, 2012 12:07 pm
- Forum: The Local Materials Challenge (Closed)
- Topic: $100 local materials challenge, David Frassetto's lapsteel (Completed 4/13/12)
- Replies: 33
- Views: 85828
Re: $100 local materials challenge, David Frassetto's lapsteel
Jason,Tristan, Steve, and Mark, Thank you! The fabric finishing is fun. Heres a tip. when you go to look at fabric take along a cutout of the shape of your body. you can then see how the pattern will look when reduced to its final shape. I've gotten some funny looks from salespeople as I stand there...
- Sat Apr 14, 2012 12:49 am
- Forum: The Local Materials Challenge (Closed)
- Topic: $100 local materials challenge, David Frassetto's lapsteel (Completed 4/13/12)
- Replies: 33
- Views: 85828