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Strung up, playable, and still sounds like a proper guitar in spite of the structural design changes
Plus a short clip of me noodling around. Once its finished ill try to get a recording of someone decent giving it a try https://soundcloud.com/user390597967...ed-2118-548-pm Another caveat is that this was recorded through one of those little iPhone mics that come attached to the headphones placed a foot or so away, which is hardly hi-fi. How do y'all make recordings in an un-biased way with minimal equipment? Id prefer to have a decent recording that you can draw your own conclusions from than try to describe what it sounds like with poorly defined descriptions of 'tone' |
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I think it sounds really, really good!
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Funny, it sounds like a guitar to me also.
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That sounds fantastic! Congrats on the design and execution of that unique guitar. It has a sweet tone and a nice treble response but the bass is still in there enough to balance.
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I agree it sounds great. Seems heavier guitsrs have their place in the tone spectrum. I’m not going to try and describe it but I hear something a little different than norm and wonderful in that guitar. Well done!
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Thanks y'all! Its been a while but it took me a little while to stop playing it long enough to disassemble and finish it. The biggest headache was cutting the binding channels (probably the worst part of this whole build). Since all the surfaces are curved in some way, I couldnt just run a router around the edge as usual so I had to spend most of a weekend to cut it by hand. Also had to make a knock-off cutter like the one sold at lmii to do so.
If I were to do this again Id either skip the binding entirely, glue it on the outside so it makes a ledge, or invest in an overhead router. After fitting the binding and all that was left was the finishing. Despite buying the dye and all the helpful tips I got from Sam VanLaningham on his Smeck Stage Deluxe thread, I chickened out and just did a plain clear finish instead of a hand rubbed sunburst finish. I think it still looks good and I'll try the sunburst another time when I have more soundboard thickness to sand into. I just used brush on nitro lacquer and take most of it off with 0000 steel wool between coats to keep it thin. The steel wool is easy and gives it a nice satin finish that I prefer to the bowling ball gloss. |
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Wow what a great job
Amazing detailed effort !!
complete to the FEA ! That hooked me at the start of this thread and paging thru.. " I can build some FEA models when I have some spare time." I have the 3D solid model ready in any format possible and have built the soundboard too and would love to get an FEA analysis on it. New to this site, non player, non Luthier https://drive.google.com/open?id=1AS...1SoZfs21TxdwQH
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Hi. I don't usually read "How I built this" type articles but this one intrigued me and I read all the posts and looked at the pictures several times. Congratulations on going outside the box. The guitar looks good and seems to sound good. I look forward to hearing more when you can upgrade the recordings.
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