gazaa

it is lmii product WSDAJ seen here http://www.lmii.com/CartTwo/thirdproducts....tar+Body+Blanks

i purchased it about a year ago and have had it stored indoors since. it is untouched. $55 shipped to lower 48 states from 28411 or best offer.

reach me at:

gavinmh at email dot unc dot edu

its this guy:

http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Tools/Special_...outer_Base.html

it has some scratches and such from use but works fine as its basically bulletproof. i'll sell it for $35 shipped, stewmac asks for $52.55 plus shipping, and i don't think the box they sent it in is any more fancy than mine will be.

if you have something you want to trade, let me know. i'm looking for just about anything.

inquire at gavinhackeling at ec dot rr dot com

thanks

its actually a 24.75" standard 6 and a 27.5" baritone 12. with the baritone 12 i have the option of stringing as a regular baritone or as various other tunings from octave courses to maybe courses in fifths or stringing 3 bass strings and 3 unison courses/etc. also, i can use it sort of like the bass strings on a harp guitar when i'm primarily playing the 6. the 12 feels more natural on bottom; les paul's are a little small for my size and when standing this seems like a better arrangement for me. additionally, this arrangement is more suited aesthetically imo as the waist offset matches the longer headstock.

i'll try to get something recorded sometime, but i'm a student and i'm back at school so my resources are sometimes limited.

thanks for looking everyone!

the baritone is a 27.5" scale tuned Bb Ee Aa Dd GbGb bb strung with 62/26 46/18 36/13.5 26/10 17/17 13/13. based on d'addario's numbers each fundamental string is about 19-21lbs (/in2? i don't think their fact sheet explained much. i dunno.) and 14-17 lbs per octave.

thats more than electrics are accustomed to, but probably equatable to an acoustic 12 in standard. the neck is also reinforced with a truss rod and two largish carbon fiber rods. i've seen some baritone 12 acoustic dreads; those must deal with some serious tension.

the strat is another of mine; actually its the first electric i built and still my primary guitar. its a pretty standardish strat with lace sensors in olympic white/maple/rosewood.

thanks guys. it weighs in at about the same as an eds-1275, which is to say heavy. as for playing, i've attempted some two hand tapping, but stick mostly to either playing the necks individually or playing primarily the six with the 12 providing drones, sympathetic support, and open chords.

hi all,

i've lurked here for a bit. i'm a pretty casual builder, but i've tried a few projects. here's my latest: a les paul style doubleneck. its awaiting final polishing, some cleanup, and some dressing, but heres the idea.

specs:

1 piece carved honduras mahogany body. 3 ply binding

maple/ebony/mahogany necks w/ truss rods, carbon fiber rods

seymour duncan sh-2, jb-4? (something like that) dimarzio tone zone for 6 side, dimarzio paf joe and gfs dream 180 for 12.

master volume, tone, 3 way for each side w/ 2 outputs.

mostly gotoh hardware, some sung-il stuff

http://www.flickr.com/photos/28155506@N08/2768691415/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/28155506@N08/2768691421/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/28155506@N08/2768691429/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/28155506@N08/2768691435/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/28155506@N08/2768691425/

-g

thanks!

does anyone know where i can purchase some?

how thick is the top, and what does its bracing look like?

thanks for the replies. i did stumble across Carlson's work and the harp guitar forum a while back. The impression I'm getting from people who have played/seen/experimented with the Shakti-style oblique sympathetics is that they are too short and require too much bracing to provide anything audible. Perhaps on an electric with the sympathetic pickup boosted? I'm very interested in the sitar style sympathetics that Carlson has employed though, although I haven't found much information other than what Fred has provided. Are there any recordings of the sympitars?

hello everyone,

i've been kicking around the idea of building an acoustic with a set a sympathetic drone strings, preferably in the style of John McLaughlin's Wechter-made Shakti, but possibly in a harp guitar format like Todd Mosby's Imrat guitar if that is a more facilitative format.

this is the best resource i've found thus far, although its diagram-less explanation of the bracing is somewhat less than clear to me.

http://www.wechterguitars.com/custom/article-shakti.htm

does anybody have any experience or ideas about drone guitars? any musings are welcome at this point.

this is what i've got so far:

i prefer smaller bodies, but im assuming an ooo is out of the picture for volume considerations (?). i'm leaning towards a dreadnaught. shakti is a j-200, but i have no means of bending jumbo sides, portroppo. i imagine that the upper bout and part of the treble lower bout will be rendered acoustically dead by the drone bridges' supports. ideas?

the 7 drone strings are positioned obliquely to the main strings. the bridge with tuners (zither pins perhaps) is located on the upper bass bout. the anchor bridge is around the waist of the treble side. both are cut through the soundboard and supported by end/tail block style structures beneath (?). the tops of the supports are slightly largely than their bridges, and taper so that the part contacting the back is smaller. additionally, two grafts run on either side of the soundhole parallel to the strings.

on shakti, the soundboard's bracing is patterned after a fan bracing/kasha derivative because the main strings are 10-47's. i have heard very mixed things about kasha bracing, and question the ability of fan bracing to withstand this sort of application. im leaning towards x. thoughts?

any ideas are welcome

thanks,

gazaa

sorry for the confusion. heres a

picture

in other words, the headstock hasnt been flipped

i cut a piece of indian rosewood for a neck with an angled peghead such that the headstock breaks off the neck at ~12 degrees, ie a gibson or prs-ish neck. however, i did a sort of slab joint..... i first cut straight down the blank to separate the neck and headstock, and then cut a sliver off the headstock to create the angle. will this be strong enough to withstand string tension? if not, how can i reinforce/salvage it?

thanks

wow....... gilmer offers some beautiful wood. good find

well, to answer this question, a store on ebay consistently offers korina/limba in carve top dimensions. i also lucked out and found figured mahogany in carve top dimensions on ebay.

it shouldnt be too much more trouble than a non-trem bridge, although it depends on what type of tremolo you were thinking of.

if its something youre going to use, go for it.

im looking into building my third guitar, hopefully a double cut lp style carve top. im interested in using something other than maple for the top, preferably something exotic. unfortunately, i cant seem to find anything with the proper dimensions. does anyone know of any suppliers that offer exotic woods at carve top dimensions?