tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49083542703647230362024-02-21T23:57:26.540-08:00Andrew Stone Presents His Multifarious CreationsAndy Stonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10417954518926466160noreply@blogger.comBlogger123125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4908354270364723036.post-2792089013915177322016-10-15T06:23:00.000-07:002016-10-15T06:23:06.470-07:00Long gap from blogging many projects!Has it been that long? Well I have had to stop, ok slow the rate of guitars being built but lots of other projects have happened in the mean time. 1: Two Valve (tube) hifi preamplifiers build 2: 4x Quad II valve power amp restoration 3: Frugal Horn loud speaker cabinet build, 4: Experimental beer can solar heater. Shall try to add blog entries for these soon.<br />
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<br />Andy Stonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10417954518926466160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4908354270364723036.post-79214122999586479322015-04-10T14:49:00.003-07:002015-04-10T14:56:48.358-07:00and another!I bought up three of these cans (German food canisters) and had a neck I'd made previously so it was simple to put it together. The scale length is like a regular guitar capoed on the 9th fret so ideal for that African Township sound. I fitted a piezo pickup inside but it sounds good acouticaly.<br />
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<br />Andy Stonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10417954518926466160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4908354270364723036.post-48530454467291778702015-03-28T06:31:00.001-07:002015-03-28T06:31:58.255-07:00Nearly a year?! Oil Can GuitarHas it nearly been a year? Whoops! I'd better update you with my latest projects then!<br />
Since my last post I've built an oil can guitar, made my own pickup winder and wound my own low impedance pickups and recorded a cd! <br />
I'd seen oil can guitars on the internet before and thought them rather cool but wasn't sure how musically useful they'd be, more ppl seem to just play blues on them (nothing wrong with that)<br />
After the success of my mahogany one piece ukulele necks I thought I'd try a guitar one but fitting the truss rod in from the back means levelling and making parallel both sides of the neck blank so (being lazy) why no install it from the top Mosrite Brass rail style? The pickups were liberated from the "Les Pew" which now has my home made low impedance ones but I'll keep that for another post. <br />
Working on razor thin sheet steel is far more hazardous and hard work than wood! But the resulting guitar is very versatile and if capoed on the 5th fret upwards immediately sounds like your in an African Township! Great for Reggae too! Heres's some photos.<br />
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<br />Andy Stonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10417954518926466160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4908354270364723036.post-42817385675147591742014-04-28T14:26:00.000-07:002014-05-05T10:00:35.362-07:00The Princeton ChampI decided to treat myself to a valve amplifier kit, my home made valve amp is fine but is based on a 1960's hifi amplifier and really should have it's electrolytic capacitors replaced before it goes bang! So partly I wanted something brand new and reliable and also fancied an American voiced amp with a 6V6 tube in it with that nice overdriven sound that could fit into almost any situation rather than EL84s So I went for a 4 watt Champ clone from amp maker. <a href="http://www.ampmaker.com/store/WF-55-4w-tweed-style-amp.html">http://www.ampmaker.com/store/WF-55-4w-tweed-style-amp.html <span style="color: black;"> </span></a><br />
<span style="color: black;">It all came packed so</span> neatly that I thought for a moment he'd forgotten the valves! The instructions are on line and easy to follow, it was really nice to build something that was guaranteed to work so I could focus on making a neat job of it. I t felt a bit like a busman's holiday but was nice to be building something I could keep bcz though I'm an optical assembly technician now I've been a panel wireman for about 40 years. I received it on Thursday and had it working by Sunday. How loud is 4 watts supposed to be? This thing was ear spilling before it started to overdrive! Good in a way bcz i want to use it in church! So I added a standby switch too to extend the valve life.I plonked it upside down into an old solid state Behringer amp cab I had kept for such a project, which happened to have an appropriate Jensen speaker. I have to admit wasn't so keen on the tone, it just sounded to warm and loose with my humbucker equipped guitars ,I could see that a Tele or Strat would be great but I have enough guitars already! I added the tone circuit and instantly loved it! One end of the tone control is mellow and jazzy and the other bright and twangy, but some how the in between sound works better for me. Maybe it's the cathode resistor bypass cap I had to add to make up for the lossy tone controls. This converts it from a Champ to a Princeton. Also I added a negative feedback defeat switch which boosts the volume but cuts the midrange. I didn't want to commit to it and drill a hole in the wood panel as I didn't want to over clutter it or change the internal wiring so wired it outside the chassis but intercepting the connection at the 4 ohm tap of the output transformer and fitted the switch in one of the side infill panels.<br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">Finished Dulcijo with my Dulcimer, it sounds amazing!A real authentic banjo sound and really loud! I've been having fun playing my dulcimer tunes on it though bcz it's played like a a guitar rather than across the lap it reverses all the fingering! I'll post some better photos when I have the chance to take them and maybe a video once I've leart to play it better, I keep meaning to visit my local folk club again and this is just the thing to take along. The lower picture is of the drone string nut arrangement, using a slotted screw for a nut and another filed down into a hook. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999;">A short festive demo. <a href="https://soundcloud.com/andy-stone-5/good-king-wenceslas-on-the">Good-King-Wenceslas</a></span></div>
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Working out the neck angle, a tricky job I often get wrong!</div>
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A new neck extension rod made from scraps, drilling the hole in the neck at the correct angle is going to be difficult!</div>
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reskinned my "Ganjo" with a proper vellum skin, a tricky job in itself!
The "ganjo" was a short necked guitar(ish) banjo I built several years
ago by making a new neck for a zither banjo with a broken neck but
still wasn't happy with the result, nothing wrong with the reskinning
but like most guitar banjos 6 strings make it sound muddy and the lower
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, a cross between the dulcimer and banjo that really does sound authentic and (unlike the steel guitar) is immediately playable so have decided to covert it into one of these.Listen to this!<br />
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Ready for bandsawing...more to come!<br />
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I've always loved the sound of the lap steel and built this in June-July but C6 tuning has no relation to standard guitar tuning and I can't play it at all! Just as well it didn't cost much to build!Andy Stonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10417954518926466160noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4908354270364723036.post-26654058527463858512013-02-02T04:28:00.002-08:002013-02-02T04:28:24.146-08:00The perils of Danish oil<h3 class="yiv1045429612post-title yiv1045429612entry-title" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1359807464351_2214">
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I wanted to make my guitar look pretty and make the body colour match
the neck so I decided to apply some danish oil as this was far easier to
apply than varnish, I had heard not being hard like a varnish that it
could effect the sound quality but considered my box guitar to lowly for
it to notice WHAT A MISTAKE! The moment I wiped some across the sound
board it was like my strings had aged a year or two! Instant mahogany to
plywood! I know it hasn't had a chance to dry yet but I've already
unstrung it and scraped down the top under the strings and intend to do
the rest in time,the top is super thick so it isn't exactly risky and
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--------------------------- That was on Tuesday, last night (Friday) it had improved a little but not back to anything like how it was but I took it out to an acoustic open floor night but was glad I took an amp bcz it was almost inaudible even in a quiet venue like that. But through an amp it sounded GREAT and got encouraging comments from other players, I think I have a new main gigging guitar!</div>
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I still want to scrape down some of the sides but basically it's finished. I need to practice a song so I can take it to an open mic on Friday. It's not the easiest guitar to play but is quite rewarding, reminds of Dave Rawlings sound, a sweet trebely sound that stands out well against other acoustics.I'm still not sure wheather or not to Danish oil it or not, I quite like the worn look.</div>
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up the hole for the preamp to sit in proved the guitar really needs a larger sound hole as it
sounded better, more open like the top was moving more so maybe a small one on the front in line with the existing
port?? Recessing it like this hides it a little and makes the controls less likely to be damaged. Also I have to fit the battery somewhere and the output jack. I hope it hasn't spoilt it's vintage look too much but it came from the same guitar so seemed to make sense to use it</span></span></span>Andy Stonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10417954518926466160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4908354270364723036.post-85212219218866948742013-01-23T12:31:00.004-08:002013-01-23T12:34:41.236-08:00Box guitar strung up and playing!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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At first it sounded far to harsh and tinny but as the strings are wearing in a more mellow tone is appearing, it is fairly quiet but that's to be expected, it has a very precise almost hifi sound absolutely no muddyness or boomyness,seems to lend itself to clear lead lines. and has a long sustain. I just hooked up the electronics and even through a tiny amp it sounded very good so I will be installing it. In all a success.more photos once it's got the preamp in the top and has been danish oiled, and maybe a video.<br />
<br />Andy Stonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10417954518926466160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4908354270364723036.post-3259716007750885422013-01-22T12:38:00.000-08:002013-01-22T12:38:35.591-08:00Strings on...tomorrow<span id=".reactRoot[100].[1][2][1]{comment10151215704036439_7704108}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][1]"> </span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[100].[1][2][1]{comment10151215704036439_7704108}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[100].[1][2][1]{comment10151215704036439_7704108}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[100].[1][2][1]{comment10151215704036439_7704108}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[0]">The top and back are scrapped down to remove all the old varnish and the neck is glued in, at present it's
face down with my valve amp sitting on top of it having its bridge
glued on, I wouldn't recommend this technique for a standard acoustic
guitar! Face down because I can't access the inside of the body to get the nuts on the two screws that are in the bridge so I fitted two extra long M3 screws dipped in tightbond and hope that the glue will run down towards the top and make a hard plug around them. I'm a bit nervous about tuning it up because it was very hard to get all of Tanglewood's filler off the back of the bridge so I scored it up best i could. Tomorrow I'll string it up and discover what I have created! Gem or junk! If all is well I'll fit the electronics finish scraping the box and danish oil it.</span></span></span><br />
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I've glued in a block to support the neck joint and am using temporary screws to clamp it in place, the top one will disappear under the heel on the neck and the bottom on will be filled and re-drilled for the strap button.<br />
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As you can see the box is very scruffy and maybe now would be the best time to sand it down before I fit the neck and bridge. I'm annoyed that last summer I stupidly damaged the top with my plane right near the sound port and it is probably not possible to make the thing look pristine anymore, but would that really be in keeping with the spirit of the project? It's just ironic that the parts that came from the skip are like the day they left the shop! I have a can of danish oil but that would mean sanding off all of the varnish, it's snowing out side and the workshop is a mess and freezing cold so a no go zone, maybe if I sand down the parts that are hard to access later (around the neck joint and bridge) I have can finish the rest after it is playing....also I'll know if is worth the effort- or not!!</div>
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Nothing glued in yet but making good progress!<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[29].[1][2][1]{comment10151212205161439_7682294}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[29].[1][2][1]{comment10151212205161439_7682294}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[29].[1][2][1]{comment10151212205161439_7682294}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[29].[1][2][1]{comment10151212205161439_7682294}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[29].[1][2][1]{comment10151212205161439_7682294}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]"> I've
just cut a block to support the full length of the original neck joint
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<br />Andy Stonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10417954518926466160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4908354270364723036.post-65913966411475838292013-01-12T08:13:00.003-08:002013-01-12T08:22:46.713-08:00The neck is now all cleaned up and ready for a new body! I'm thinking about that mahogany box I started on back in spring last year but it''s so short it would mean that the bridge would only be inches from the edge of the box which can't be good for the acoustics, but then again it does look cool and if it sounds good for practice (after all the sound hole is facing you at the top) and i can plug the thing in as I have kept the under bridge piezo pickup and preamp. I know whan this project will get finished though, the weather is really cold so my workshop is unusable until spring, the neck was done at work in my breaks but I'm not sure if I should take the whole instrument in there.<br />
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Andy Stonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10417954518926466160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4908354270364723036.post-77852694541827787072013-01-08T11:53:00.000-08:002013-01-12T08:02:15.233-08:00Off with it's neck!Well I could have made it a new solid wood top but I'm not much of a fan of bowl back guitars and don't really want another regular instrument. So off came the neck! Taking a hack saw to a guitar body some how didn't seem right but I have plans to mate it to a mahogany box I have been meaning to make an instrument from for some time to make a large size cigar box type instrument. I've no idea what it will sound like being all mahogany as well!<br />
I must say I'm not impressed with Tanglewood's building techniques! The neck tenon is glued ...or should I say cemented it with a glue - or filler more like car body filler! I can image them plonking the necks into the over sized sockets bodies on the production line with a large blob of gloop in the hole!<br />
Next i need to clean the wood from the tenon and remove the bridge. Andy Stonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10417954518926466160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4908354270364723036.post-3643525950304671392013-01-07T15:20:00.006-08:002013-01-07T15:23:52.972-08:00Could you walk past?Could you walk past a guitar in a skip? (Dumpster US), I couldn't though my wife wasn't impressed! It's Ovation copy, a Tanglewood Odyssey in perfect condition, apart from one important detail, not single dent scratch or ding as if someone bought it with the intention to learn and lost interest.........then lent it against a radiator and let the top warp , you could drive a bus under those strings! SO not such a find, but the neck is dead straight and I have a plan to build a guitar box like guitar and I think the mahogany neck with suit the box I have got , and I have the electrics too! More soon!<br />
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An image of an identical one found on the net <br />
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<br />Andy Stonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10417954518926466160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4908354270364723036.post-56332723581266440362012-06-21T12:49:00.000-07:002012-06-22T07:48:26.869-07:00A Flying V for my son JakeJake has just started to play guitar and has learned as much in the last few weeks as I did int he first year! He wants a flying V so I'm building it for his 17th birthday in August.<br />
The wood for the body is from that pine dining room table and the neck another leg from the table that my ukulele necks came from. It's not supposed to be an exact copy of a Gibson more like a mix of both models plus a bit of what I fancy. (Like a wrap round bridge) Should be fun to play, I hope he'll lend it to me sometimes!<br />
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