• MrJameGumb@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    22 days ago

    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.worldOPEnglish
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      22 days 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.

  • phant@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    2 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.itEnglish
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    2 months ago

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