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Today I made my first ever guitar.
There are some really important things to take into account when building a guitar. Things that are very important if you want your guitar to sound even okay, and these things cannot be ignored.
I ignored most of them. My guitar still sounds ok. It was build this afternoon and tonight with a set of strings and stuff found lying around the hacker-space. This is awesome.
The real reason that I could ignore most of the important spacing stuff is that it's fretless (I'm using an open-D tuning). All I have to care about is individual string tuning, not intonation. Without frets, I could set the action very high and avoid buzzing. All else aside, building the frets would probably be as hard as putting the rest of the guitar together itself.
The body, neck and head of the guitar are all a single piece of pine that was hiding in the corner. We were totally air-guitaring with it when it was only a single piece of pine. The tuning machines are bolts with some of the thread filed flat and little holes drilled through for the strings. The strings are anchored behind a bit of brass sitting between the bridge and the main body. We were using an acoustic pick-up to plug it into an amp (I don't have electric pickups yet), which surprisingly sounded quite good.
Yay!
There are some really important things to take into account when building a guitar. Things that are very important if you want your guitar to sound even okay, and these things cannot be ignored.
I ignored most of them. My guitar still sounds ok. It was build this afternoon and tonight with a set of strings and stuff found lying around the hacker-space. This is awesome.
The real reason that I could ignore most of the important spacing stuff is that it's fretless (I'm using an open-D tuning). All I have to care about is individual string tuning, not intonation. Without frets, I could set the action very high and avoid buzzing. All else aside, building the frets would probably be as hard as putting the rest of the guitar together itself.
The body, neck and head of the guitar are all a single piece of pine that was hiding in the corner. We were totally air-guitaring with it when it was only a single piece of pine. The tuning machines are bolts with some of the thread filed flat and little holes drilled through for the strings. The strings are anchored behind a bit of brass sitting between the bridge and the main body. We were using an acoustic pick-up to plug it into an amp (I don't have electric pickups yet), which surprisingly sounded quite good.
Yay!