10/23/2009
revelation (strata)Friday, October 23, 2009
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DYI Guitars - II & III
Following my first wine box guitar build I've decided to build some more. For the body of the second guitar I used a stainless steel strongbox that I picked up at our local Goodwill for 99 cents. I sanded off the battleship gray paint for a brushed steel surface and drilled sound holes using our shower drain as a template. Pretty straightforward build - had to use a dremel w/ diamond cutting wheel to cut through the stainless steel box to mount the neck. The most time-consuming steps were sanding the paint off the box and mounting the frets.
Some pix of the finished piece:
interior view showing piezo mounted to the underside of the neck, and output jack
For the body of the next guitar I decided to use a tin children's tool chest that I picked up on ebay. Again, pretty straightforward build. I was able to do most of the modifications to the body using tin snips, and once again used our shower drain as a template for the sound holes. When I wired this one up I added a pot for volume control, and used an old brass button as the volume knob.
Some pix:
detail showing brass volume knob. "This one goes to 11."
the neck is secured to the tin box body with rivets.
volume control and output jack.
Some pix of the finished piece:
view of the bottom of the guitar showing 1/4"output jack
interior view showing piezo mounted to the underside of the neck, and output jackFor the body of the next guitar I decided to use a tin children's tool chest that I picked up on ebay. Again, pretty straightforward build. I was able to do most of the modifications to the body using tin snips, and once again used our shower drain as a template for the sound holes. When I wired this one up I added a pot for volume control, and used an old brass button as the volume knob.
Some pix:
detail showing brass volume knob. "This one goes to 11."
the neck is secured to the tin box body with rivets.
volume control and output jack.Almost forgot - I also rewired and added a volume control to the wine box guitar. I fashioned a knob out of an old gear and plastic halloween skull:
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