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Electro-Acoustic Banjitar
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Published on January 3, 2013
This thing was Featured on January 4, 2013
Derived from
Electroacoustic mini-sitar
by alan_one
Description
3-string uke banjitar. It really plays (if you set the bridge right) though not very loudly. Designed to easily add a piezo pickup and a 1/4 inch jack.
Instructions
Remove pads from neck. The neck is epoxied and snaps into the body... try to give it a little relief if you can i.e. angle it away from the front of the instrument. The head is epoxied onto the other end of the neck. Extended bridge is superglued to the front plate to set the intonation. The front plate with attached bridge then snaps into the body and is held in place by string tension.
There's a hole for a 1/4" jack in the side, and you can glue a piezo element to the backside of the front plate (under the bridge) for amplified or processed banjitar madness.
You can try different strings, I used the D, G, and B steel strings from a set of electric guitar 10's I had lying around, but you may want to try nylon or other types of strings.
There's a hole for a 1/4" jack in the side, and you can glue a piezo element to the backside of the front plate (under the bridge) for amplified or processed banjitar madness.
You can try different strings, I used the D, G, and B steel strings from a set of electric guitar 10's I had lying around, but you may want to try nylon or other types of strings.
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lscs
on
January 4, 2013
said:
If you print your neck and finger board separately, you could pint a channel to except a truss rod (single action, double action, carbon fiber, steel tubing). This could help with the neck deflection, reduce neck profile, and possibly eliminate some of the the tuning issues.
Big-E
on
January 3, 2013
said:
I like this thing, very cool. When I have the time, I will try making one of these; I've made cigar-box guitars before, so this should be a fun instrument!
License
Electro-Acoustic Banjitar by alan_one is licensed under the Attribution - Non-Commercial - Creative Commons license.
I was considering the I-beam angle, if you'll pardon the pun... something like a bunch of vertical corrugated flanges could interlock the neck to the fingerboard... It would be nice to minimize the non-printed parts.