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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | 5 string "Dulcitar"
Carbon Fiber & Walnut
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Location: Newington, CT | Wow, Jeff! That thing's cool! Is it a real instrument or a spectacular PhotoShop job?!?!? |
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Location: Tennessee | Nice! I trust the QA process at JW Lutherie does not involve a trebuchet. That is a beautiful piece. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | It's real, no photoshop.
I wonder. . . . how far would it fly? Much more aerodynamic than a guitar. You've got me wondering now, Bobbo. |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | Nicely done!
Fretless??? |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | eh... "luthiery"
...that's just embarassing. |
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Location: closely held secret | It's a Protestant shop. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Interesting...
Where did you score the carbon fiber?
Oh yeah.....whatever happened to the great used string experiment? |
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Location: Budd Lake, NJ | I like it, Jeff--a really neat blend of history and space age. How is it tuned, and what does it sound like? (Inquiring minds want to know...)
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I located a good supplier of carbon fiber who makes the fiber in the very same way that Adamas tops are made. Dragon plate.
The strings are ; octive course, single, unison course bottom to top. It's not fretless but, that's an interesting idea ( I did apply the slide to it).
It is currently tuned DGD but can be tuned DAD, DCD, GAD - many different ways really. It sounds very sitar like but a found bit rounder. Like a really fat dulcimer. It's fun. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | The great string project has morphed due to my inability to consistantly braze / soldier various guitar strings together. This caught me by surprise... Not that it might prove tricky but, downright elusive. May go the casting route. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | What kind of pickup does it have? Did it affect the acousticness of it when you installed it? |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Now that's downright imaginative and interesting!
Would love to hear a recording... |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | how long izzit?
too big for one overall reference pics?
Kinda like those Japanese monster movies where we see Godzirras foot, claw, and eyeball but never the whole monster. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | No P/U in it... amplifying might break several civil ordnances.
Overall length is about 35" the body is about 14" heel to neck. |
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Location: Whitecourt, Ab | Just out of curiosity which product/thickness did you order for the top? |
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