greenkat

when i make Didjes i go collect the wood and throw it in a small,back room in my basement that i stored a few propane heaters in ......it gets kinda expensive,but the price of the sold didje about breaks even.....

i wouldn't really recomend it though,i've craked about 10% of the ones in there over the years....

man , looks like it's gunna be hell to clean up that upper horn,looks like you dug in a bit too much in about the center....be carefull, that's a cool lookin' body, i'm gunna be checking on that one.......

very nice, i've had people use burners on didjes i've built,they can do some amazing stuff,pyrographers i thik there called..

i've used a torch before too,i alwaya hoped someone else did ,as a lot of people looked down on me for doing so...

ok, so i've had this idea for a while and now i have a chance to act it out...

what if i was to take a thin top,say flame maple, and cut out flames(fire) on the ol' band saw(already did this part)

then could i just glue it on the the bodyand sand,shape,fill, it in.........

i've already cut the top a while ago out of boredom and spare wood.........

haha,well guys, they make the didges out of Eucalyptus.....

i've played the didge for as long as a guitar....i build them out of hard woods too...

as for wood out there i have NO idea,sorry,.........

lovely, i think that's one of the best Explorers i've seen in a long time,hell maybe ever.....you don't see 'em shaped like that to often...good job.......

Carvin are 1/4", you can either drill the old ones out with a forstner bit or drill the center with a 1/8" and pry them out. But since you whent thru some, you will have to drill them out anyway.  Once you do, just drill enough to set the new do in place, about 1/16". then just file the new dots down to the fingerboard. 

I did this one like that. It had black dots and I changed them to MOP, But next time just take your time and don't go to deep.

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did you paint or dye or what that f. board, it looks great....that whole different kind of great....

i suppose if it's paint it's paint becuse your not on the f. board?,so it won't ifff up?........

this is from a talk with Karl Sanders of NILE(yea!!!!!!!!!!)

"well , on the plus side, there is plenty of NOTHING under the string -

where your fingers would normally slam into fretboard , there is now just air. Consequently, the note now has nothing to do with the string touching the fretboard , it is only making contact with the fret itself.

To my ears this yeilds a purer bell-like tone -

also , since your finger is no longer hell-bent on sqeezing the strings all the way into a hardwood fretboard,

you only need apply enough pressure to gently touch the string down to the fret. ( any more would push the note hopelessly sharp)

So you can actually relax your grip a little bit.

But this is a double edged sword -

since there is no appreciable functioning fretboard to stop you,

you can very easily play WAY out of tune -

and sound quite horrible. "

love the scallop, i really want to do it on my neck-thru,but i gotta work up a little more courage........

i don't even care for strats but that sounds NICE..........the paint reminds me of old Tiger Army......

make sure you write up a full report......

tigerarmy ep

thanks, guys ........that "exotic guitars" is amasing.........

and RAGAS your's are just as amazing if not more so,just becuse i happen to like those kind of guitars(the whole death metal deal,)

funny as it may sound i built a body that resembles the goratory body,how funny, it is pretty different thought, but still ..........

does any body know Anything about this lovely piece of playable art,i came across the picture a while ago and can't find a thing about it.......

http://tinypic.com/view.html?pic=28rv44

i wanted to build one of those forever,i just found a friend with one of the cheap "art" bodies,and traced it,only rough cut the body,been sittin' in my shop ever since,

i'll keep an eye out for you...