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Friday, 8 March 2013

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Thursday, 7 March 2013

Electric Cigar Box Bouzouki

Featuring a set of mandolin tuners (4 per block), 8 strings and bolts for btidge and nut.

Tuned in pairs GGDDAAEE (low to high)

Video to follow

Electro-Acoustic Cigar Box Ukuleles

Just like a CBG, but with Ukulele Fretboard, either stopping at the box, or overlapping in a recess.

I have piezo pickups in all the ukes i make. Steel or nylon strings.

I tune tenor tuning, because I like it, and am used to playing the mandolin. (GDAE low to high).
More conventional tunings are gCEA and aDF#B (which sounds brighter to me.)

These Ukes were made using the legs of a discarded easel

I realised that the box below was too long, so moved the neck INTO the box.

It now belongs to Nicolette, AKA Little Wing, from Glasgow supergroup

COLONEL MUSTARD & THE DIJON 5

CBU 'Freebird' Video - Featuring mrjonthemuppet

Another CBG Video

3 string CBG tuned to open A chord (AEa low to high)

More Slide CBG on a 3 string - 'Stay With Me' by The Faces

CBG - Some Cramps (with Deano Dinosaur)

Another Silly Video

On a 4 string CBG that I built with tone and volume pots. Played through a Wah pedal with some reverb and distortion. Deano's vocals are drowned out in places, but that's a good thing!

Legendary Rock dinosaur Deano performs 'What's Inside A Girl?' by The Cramps. mrjonthehat on CBG

Wednesday, 6 March 2013

How to build a 4 string Tennis Racquet Banjo

find an unwarped old wooden tennis racquet

cut and shape a headstock

fit tuners and ferules

make sure one side of racquet head is smooth

sand down one side of the handle

make a tension ring to fit inside the raquet head

Cut and sand the ring to size...drilling inside the ring helps saw access

pegs or scrap wood will hold the ring in place

get an old drum head

glue and staple the cut head to racquet and glue headstock

carefully drill pegs and add screws to hold tension ring in place

fit a bridge and nut

add screws to the tail to hold strings

tune and play

Handmade Instruments Jam Session Video

All together - WEIRD !!! ... but fun.

A Washboard with a piezo pick-up and a jack located in a tobacco tin. Horn and chicken optional !

Old Washboards can be found online, or in junk shops. The 'board' tends to be glass or metal, and can be played with thimbles, banjo picks, drumsticks or brushes. I attached a piezo pickup (cost £1.09) to this one, and installed a mono guitar socket (£1.49 - Maplins Store) in an oldtobacco tin. The whole mechanism is easily removed, and trfansferred to another instrument, if required.

Single String Things

Cremola Foam Can Electric Diddley Bow

Very easy to construct. - A can resonator, screwed to a plank. One string, one tuner, one fret, one piezo, one jack. Holes drilled in the can to allow screwdriver access. Tuned to open A - Played with a slide. MAKE ONE! They are great fun.

Diddley Bow Video

Electric Walking Stick Cane Canjo

Really just another diddley bow, with a sweetie tin resonator and a neck made from an old walking stick. I had to cut a small headstock for the tuner, and a small 'zero' fret. The string is 'ball ended' so it won't pass through the drilled hole at the heel of the instrument.

Walking Stick Video

Steampunk Cigar Box Theremin

The Theremin is one of the world's first electronic instruments. I built mine from a kit made by Harrison : CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS

I fitted it to a nice cigar box that was too small to be a CBG - Some brass Fittings made it look Steampunk. It has an internal speaker, and a line out through a 3mm jack.