The latest from the workshop is this sweet little instrument.
It shares elements from various instruments essentially it's a shortscale (18.5" ish) tenor guitar with a round wooden body like a mountain banjo. The inspiration for this came from a beech barrel shaped bread bin we had but with the arrival of two children a bigger bread bin was required so it's bread storing days are over. I figure I can make four instruments out of this bin and this is the first made from the base.
It has a Cedar top and Mahogany neck scarfe jointed angled headstock. The neck starts off at the body as a fat U profile and tapers to a fairly sharp V this is to keep strength in the non truss rod neck whilst making it feel slimmer. It has a lovely organinc feel and sit's in the crook of your thumb forefinger quite nicely The neck is attached to the body with a dowel and glued leaving the body hollow. Strings are retained via a Mahogany tailpiece. The ferrules are made from the primers of a shotgun cartridge. It has a hand carved Corian nut.
It is tuned CGDA and despite it's diminutive size it is incredibly loud and sounds somewhere between a mandolin and banjo and even slightly Ukulele. It has a fairly narrow neck so nimbler fingers than mine would be needed to do anything to fancy on it. It's great as a strummer
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It shares elements from various instruments essentially it's a shortscale (18.5" ish) tenor guitar with a round wooden body like a mountain banjo. The inspiration for this came from a beech barrel shaped bread bin we had but with the arrival of two children a bigger bread bin was required so it's bread storing days are over. I figure I can make four instruments out of this bin and this is the first made from the base.
It has a Cedar top and Mahogany neck scarfe jointed angled headstock. The neck starts off at the body as a fat U profile and tapers to a fairly sharp V this is to keep strength in the non truss rod neck whilst making it feel slimmer. It has a lovely organinc feel and sit's in the crook of your thumb forefinger quite nicely The neck is attached to the body with a dowel and glued leaving the body hollow. Strings are retained via a Mahogany tailpiece. The ferrules are made from the primers of a shotgun cartridge. It has a hand carved Corian nut.
It is tuned CGDA and despite it's diminutive size it is incredibly loud and sounds somewhere between a mandolin and banjo and even slightly Ukulele. It has a fairly narrow neck so nimbler fingers than mine would be needed to do anything to fancy on it. It's great as a strummer
Available on my Website now
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