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SHORT SCALE 6
STRING GUITAR
This one has a maple neck and
fingerboard. To allow for fingering between the slightly
closer frets the neck was made wider (46mm at the
nut
).
As a result it is ideal
for
fingerpicking.
 
mp3 sound
sample: tinguit2
3 STRING FRETLESS
This one is intended for
slide playing, although conventional fretting is still
possible in the lower positions, and is similar in
construction and style to a typical CBG.
Neck:
ash/cherry fretboard
Fret markers: rosewood veneer glued
into fret slots
Dots: rosewood dust/epoxy resin
Nut and
bridge: aluminium
The marks on the fretboard
around frets 14-15 are small sap pockets in the cherry.
The sound is surprisingly loud and somewhere
between a resonator and normal acoustic when played with
a slide.
 
mp3 sound sample:
tinguit1
ANOTHER SHORT SCALE 6
STRING
Set up for
normal playing rather than slide but otherwise similar to the
first example. This also has some bracing to stiffen the
top.
mp3
sound sample: tinguit3new
TIN STICK DULCIMER/STRUM
STICK
3 Strings, slightly short scale length and tuned
to EBE rather than DAD. Mahogany through-neck construction
with maple fretboard and full 2 octave neck. Great fun and
sounds better than it has any right
to!
3 STRING ELECTRIC
A great box. I normally use the bottom
of the box as the front of the guitar, but had to make an
exception in this case. There is a magnetic pickup
mounted in a recess in the through-neck just under the front
of the guitar.
5 String Banjo
This has an unusual system to tension
the front and back. The neck is tulipwood with a maple
fretboard. It's slightly short scale and hence tuned to
open A rather than G.
 
5 String Guitar
Tenor Tin Ukulele
Whoops, a few retaining screws
missing from the back when I took the photos, obvously not
quite finished!
6 STRING TENOR UKULELE/SHORT SCALE
GUITAR
This has a tenor uke scale length but
steel strings tuned to ADGCEA
4 STRING ELECTRIC
4 STRING
ELECTRO/ACOUSTIC
OIL CAN SPECIAL
Made with a 1940's
oil/petrol can and a modified 12 string neck.
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