That ends now.
I have five projects in the queue. It is unlikely I will finish then all this summer but they are the pool I will draw from in coming months.
1) Fix up thrashed flattop for friends in Des Moines
I have an old Italian flattop that needs tuners, a new bridge/sadle, and some other body work. The idea is to make it playable...and sound less like a damp cereal box. Asuming I am successful I have guitarless friends I want to give it to.
2) Hephestus II
One of the neck blanks I glued Way Back When is to become a 30" 8-string, like my 6-to-8 conversion but shorter and more playable. I've been talking about this for a LONG time. I think i'm finally going to start serious work.
3) Bajo Sexto
I also want to make a 30" bajo sexto.
4) High-strung 12-string
I have seen similar instruments referred to as "octave mandolins." What I have in mind is a short scale 12-string guitar strung with some combination of "Nashville" hi-strung, doubled and octave stringing. I think it would be fun to play a small instrument that jangled but made room for other instruments.
5) 7-string Soloing Instrument
The other smaller instrument I have been thinking about is a short-scale instrument specificaly for soloing. Tuned in straight 4ths a 23.5 scale with 7 strings should be pretty comfortable to improvise with. If the lowest string is tuned to something like G2 or A2 the high string would go up to C5 or D5. Sounds a little crazy but if it works it could be pretty fun!
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3 comments:
i hate to comment in an unrelated post. but a few years ago you posted the 7 string and 8 string nut spacing calculator in the blog. the links don't work anymore though, and i could really use them. is there any way you could fix them, and somehow get them to me? i would greatly appreciate it. i'll check back to here to see if you reply...
I'll try to get that back up. I'm sorry about the dead links.
OK, it's all coming back to me now.
This is a side effect of me losing control of djdualcore.com to a certain REALLY BIG web hosting company. Not only do I need to find (and probably fix) the document I need to decide where to put it. Right now I'm thinking it will become a Google Doc. We'll see.
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