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A good day to play some janky guitar in the hammock (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago by phant@lemmy.world to c/guitars@lemmy.world
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[–] phant@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago

I assume there will be questions... it was built from a cheap, small classical guitar to be something I could travel with~
The pickup you see is not currently wired up (dun worry I know it won't work with nylon strings - it's there if/when I wanna try steel strings.) There is a piezo pickup under the bridge at the moment. The strings route over the roller bridge, around another set of rollers and then to tuners - which is the headstock I chopped off the neck.
It's pretty quiet and gross, but also fun to play and work on for a laugh.

[–] brokenlcd@feddit.it 21 points 10 months ago

When you apply lossy compression to the instrument itself so you don't have to bother with it after recording.

[–] plactagonic@sopuli.xyz 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think you are missing about ⅓ of guitar.

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I wouldn't say I'm missing it, Bob.

[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I love this guitar. Why do you have to post awesome stuff like this while I already have several projects going on?

[–] phant@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Lol soz! What are your projects? You should post some!

[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Nothing remotely related to guitars at the moment. I'll post something someday.

[–] phant@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Oh cool. I do a lot of random projects too. Working on a weird bicycle this weekend :)

[–] Lighttrails@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The twine strap really is the icing on the cake. You’re wild, I love this

[–] phant@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Thanks haha, I did/do have plans to make something that doesn't slice into the back of my neck, but I agree, the twine aesthetic is too appropriate for now.

[–] v01@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Nice work! How do you tune it?

[–] phant@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Check out the other photos in the thread. The tuning pegs are now located under the bridge. I put a clip on tuner on the bridge, pluck the string with my fretting hand and adjust with the strumming hand. It's all backwards, but works fine!

[–] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I love the look of this thing and all the ingenuity involved lol! I showed it to a buddy of mine I work on guitars with though and we both were wondering how you plan on accounting for the lack of a truss rod in that classical neck whenever you eventually put steel strings on it?

[–] phant@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Thanks! In this project I adopted the approach of "Do first, think later" which has been really liberating. So I'll probs just whack the steel strings on and see what happens. There is an Allen head visible at the base of the neck tho, so this cheapy may have a truss rod.

[–] hungrythirstyhorny@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

left handed guitar