Finally a response from Acoustic Guitar Magazine, regarding possible showcasing of my guitar:
"Truth is, while fascinating, unless we do a piece on guitar innovations, it would be a difficult fit for AG.
I will forward your info to our advertising team; they can let you know what advertising options are available."
My guess is they will let anybody advertise with them, as long as the check is received. What the hell, I will take, can get my foot in the door and go from there!
"Truth is, while fascinating, unless we do a piece on guitar innovations, it would be a difficult fit for AG.
I will forward your info to our advertising team; they can let you know what advertising options are available."
My guess is they will let anybody advertise with them, as long as the check is received. What the hell, I will take, can get my foot in the door and go from there!
Seems acoustic guitars only have two interesting paths; one is innovation, where I suppose the adjustable neck through Riversong would sit. The other is ultra-craftsmanship, where builders make $10k and up constructions.
Canada's Riversong guitar company doesnt have a classical, just steel string in I assume only offered in standard nut widths. Even if I had that money, I'd never spend $20k on a guitar, no matter how well crafted. My playing level just isnt, nor will it ever be in this incarnation, up to benefiting from that quality of support from an instrument. A $1500 guitar would be more than adequate; I play all <$500 instruments, used.
Your guitar, along with Yamaha's "Transacoustic" models, use electricity as a means of enhancing the acoustic guitar sound. Perhaps "Acoustic Guitar" magazine leans a lot toward all acoustic implementations. I liked this guy's video of his innovative acoustic build;
Would love to have one, but couldnt afford I'm sure. I can see "Acoustic Guitar" magazine putting that on the front cover.
Canada's Riversong guitar company doesnt have a classical, just steel string in I assume only offered in standard nut widths. Even if I had that money, I'd never spend $20k on a guitar, no matter how well crafted. My playing level just isnt, nor will it ever be in this incarnation, up to benefiting from that quality of support from an instrument. A $1500 guitar would be more than adequate; I play all <$500 instruments, used.
Your guitar, along with Yamaha's "Transacoustic" models, use electricity as a means of enhancing the acoustic guitar sound. Perhaps "Acoustic Guitar" magazine leans a lot toward all acoustic implementations. I liked this guy's video of his innovative acoustic build;
JJ- I agree, Acoustic Guitar Magazine wants to promote the Acoustic Guitar as just that, and why not? They have their strategy for selling magazines. I have been a subscriber for many years. That said, their advertising has plenty of pickups, Tonewood "Amp" and many guitars with pickups included. They will sell me ad space like anybody else, I will take it for a good start!
I love the video, beautiful build, wonderful CNC work, and it sounds great. I can't touch that type of physical beauty from a real Luthier!
That said, from an innovation perspective, I find "Revolutionary" to be a stretch at best. After all, it is still the same acoustic guitar that has been built for over 100 years. What is revolutionary? People are using CNC machines until the cows come home, which is great, but if you are using CNC to do the same thing, you are just using a great tool to do the same thing.
Now using a CNC machine to build something completely different, and much better, that is revolutionary. I like to think about the design and how it can be improved in very big ways, before you actually send the G code to the CNC machine. The design itself is where the magic is, not just programming a cutter to do literally millions of movements in X-Y-Z directions, simultaneously.
CNC is great for guitar building, but people may want to consider not just building the same thing over and over again, dream bigger!
Comments welcome!
I love the video, beautiful build, wonderful CNC work, and it sounds great. I can't touch that type of physical beauty from a real Luthier!
That said, from an innovation perspective, I find "Revolutionary" to be a stretch at best. After all, it is still the same acoustic guitar that has been built for over 100 years. What is revolutionary? People are using CNC machines until the cows come home, which is great, but if you are using CNC to do the same thing, you are just using a great tool to do the same thing.
Now using a CNC machine to build something completely different, and much better, that is revolutionary. I like to think about the design and how it can be improved in very big ways, before you actually send the G code to the CNC machine. The design itself is where the magic is, not just programming a cutter to do literally millions of movements in X-Y-Z directions, simultaneously.
CNC is great for guitar building, but people may want to consider not just building the same thing over and over again, dream bigger!
Comments welcome!
I was thinking you might like seeing it when I watched it, what it might be like to have that CNC stuff in a shop and be able to make use of it like that. I do like the sped up parts where he's working by hand sanding, shaping!
Connection really slow for U Tube so I cleared the cookies / site data. Had a hard time generating a good search phrase to find that vid afterward and post the URL. Lots of people using CNC to build guitars I see...
Sometimes at the open mic a phenomenal player will drop in. Last Friday this young man with his looper. Had my simple mind nicely tricked "Wha - How - I'm not seeing him play those notes" until I figured it out. Level, perfect. Tone, perfect. Looping In/Out, perfect. I asked him afterward, "can you teach me to do that?" to which "I'm just learning myself"...
The concept would fit your guitar nicely. I imagine if that guy had one of the latest Yamaha Trans and could work it like the floor pedal, he'd be as well amazing.
The concept would fit your guitar nicely. I imagine if that guy had one of the latest Yamaha Trans and could work it like the floor pedal, he'd be as well amazing.
Updated REW data attached, very similar as always, but not exactly the same. I am sure my playing has something to do with the differences. I always play the same song, at the same volume, in the same room, with the same mic distance and direction. Generally shows the same dB increase in mids, and the lows and highs always improve, I like it. I found some time to do the final measurement today, and man did it sound great!
I know the low mids are always the strongest, pretty much the same with a Taylor. Why the 82 Hz does not record as high as the approx. 400 Hz I don't know, but man you can hear it at 4:00 minutes on the YouTube video, 82 Hz is very strong with just finger picking, not weak in any way. Plus at 11:13 minutes on the YouTube video, all strings sound very even on the power scale. Plus I am pretty sure my soundboard is contributing to the lows, based on tapping comparisons.
The highest note I am fretting on a string is 440 Hz A (tenth fret, second string), not sure if this contributes to the slightly lower that 440 Hz highest dB level. Plus I wonder how the frequency combinations of six strings might affect the measurement?
Yamaha is strongest at the low mids, but they are showing an improvement being strongest at 82 Hz with scalloped bracing, nice trick if you can pull it off!
JJ- I am looking forward to using the looper, I agree that would be big time cool, way better than the old "loopers" we used to do, put it on tape, play it back, and play a solo!
Merry Christmas!
I know the low mids are always the strongest, pretty much the same with a Taylor. Why the 82 Hz does not record as high as the approx. 400 Hz I don't know, but man you can hear it at 4:00 minutes on the YouTube video, 82 Hz is very strong with just finger picking, not weak in any way. Plus at 11:13 minutes on the YouTube video, all strings sound very even on the power scale. Plus I am pretty sure my soundboard is contributing to the lows, based on tapping comparisons.
The highest note I am fretting on a string is 440 Hz A (tenth fret, second string), not sure if this contributes to the slightly lower that 440 Hz highest dB level. Plus I wonder how the frequency combinations of six strings might affect the measurement?
Yamaha is strongest at the low mids, but they are showing an improvement being strongest at 82 Hz with scalloped bracing, nice trick if you can pull it off!
JJ- I am looking forward to using the looper, I agree that would be big time cool, way better than the old "loopers" we used to do, put it on tape, play it back, and play a solo!
Merry Christmas!
Neck is dead nuts flat, and dovetail fit to body is solid as a rock.
Acoustic Guitar Magazine finally responded and is interested, their recommendation: buy an ad in their showcase section, also a web banner, plus a YouTube post (my link included), and an e-News Featured Story. Price is not bad, I will bite. The issue I am most interested in is "Next Generation Americana", which is May/June, materials due 1-31.
All this plus social media gives them a total audience of 1,423,126 people, who knew?
Acoustic Guitar Magazine finally responded and is interested, their recommendation: buy an ad in their showcase section, also a web banner, plus a YouTube post (my link included), and an e-News Featured Story. Price is not bad, I will bite. The issue I am most interested in is "Next Generation Americana", which is May/June, materials due 1-31.
All this plus social media gives them a total audience of 1,423,126 people, who knew?
Preliminary Ad submitted to Acoustic Guitar Magazine for 1/2 page Ad. The resolution will be much better than this copy/paste. I asked for any corrections or suggestions they may have to offer, so we shall see!
Turning the magazine page onto this, few are going to get it. It needs to be your "3 minute elevator ride pitch" to a CEO...
I'd have one of the images clearly depicting, with arrows and lines, the path from each speaker face around to the horn exit.
I'd also show conceptually the layup of the guitar from top to back, so people can understand the "thinline" section consisting of the top, sides and narrow space to the dividing board, with the horn section being the separate routed out structure behind the dividing board. Otherwise no clue how this comes together to form a guitar.
Dont show the screws holding the top in place. Photoshop them all out, or just dont show the front of the guitar at all - keep it all to the horn channels, sectional layup and horn exits. Everyone knows what a common spruce top looks like.
As dumb as this may sound, if you could get pictured illuminated smoke or fog blasting out the horn mouths with some generic musician type holding the guitar in standing position - that would do more to sell/tell what it does at a glance than anything else I can imagine. You could always caption the fog dispersing pattern with "112 db!"
At my previous employ, we really wanted to visualize airflow, but without the smoke. Something about carbon dioxide gas and a thermal camera. Maybe just hot air?
I'd have one of the images clearly depicting, with arrows and lines, the path from each speaker face around to the horn exit.
I'd also show conceptually the layup of the guitar from top to back, so people can understand the "thinline" section consisting of the top, sides and narrow space to the dividing board, with the horn section being the separate routed out structure behind the dividing board. Otherwise no clue how this comes together to form a guitar.
Dont show the screws holding the top in place. Photoshop them all out, or just dont show the front of the guitar at all - keep it all to the horn channels, sectional layup and horn exits. Everyone knows what a common spruce top looks like.
As dumb as this may sound, if you could get pictured illuminated smoke or fog blasting out the horn mouths with some generic musician type holding the guitar in standing position - that would do more to sell/tell what it does at a glance than anything else I can imagine. You could always caption the fog dispersing pattern with "112 db!"
At my previous employ, we really wanted to visualize airflow, but without the smoke. Something about carbon dioxide gas and a thermal camera. Maybe just hot air?
JJ- have you been talking to my daughter? She did not like it either 😉
I always appreciate your honesty. Why do you think few will get it? Before you guys turned me on to REW, I would not get the Frequency Data at first glance, but I could figure it out. With all the notes I added, it seems fairly obvious to me, and I would be highly surprised if musicians could not understand this data.
I did the arrows and lines with horns picture before, and I think I posted it here. It looked a bit cartoonish to me, don't really like it much.
You mention "I'd also show conceptually the layup of the guitar from top to back" What do you mean by this? I have so many drawings of the guitar, I could take pages of adds to show this, but not sure it is sensible, please give me a general picture of your idea. This is a 1/2 page Ad at best, text must be readable of course.
Oh, the fugly screws. Yes I have always agreed with you on this, nobody likes them. Well let's see how everybody likes to have a glued on top with binding, then need to remove it with a hot knife, because there is MUCH going on inside this guitar, as opposed to pretty much nothing inside a standard acoustic guitar, live with that theoretical people. OK really just having FUN with this topic, but it is real!
So Photoshop the screws out so I show a FAKE version of my guitar? What are you AI JJ? 🤣
Smoke out of the guitar? I really like this idea, something I have been thinking about!
Anyway, seriously, thank you JJ, you have been a good friend, and I appreciate your comments as always! I am happy that I mentioned you and Art on my Website. If I get lucky (who knows) you guys will get a cut of the bucks.
Let's see what AGM says, they may grill me even more, and that is OK!
I always appreciate your honesty. Why do you think few will get it? Before you guys turned me on to REW, I would not get the Frequency Data at first glance, but I could figure it out. With all the notes I added, it seems fairly obvious to me, and I would be highly surprised if musicians could not understand this data.
I did the arrows and lines with horns picture before, and I think I posted it here. It looked a bit cartoonish to me, don't really like it much.
You mention "I'd also show conceptually the layup of the guitar from top to back" What do you mean by this? I have so many drawings of the guitar, I could take pages of adds to show this, but not sure it is sensible, please give me a general picture of your idea. This is a 1/2 page Ad at best, text must be readable of course.
Oh, the fugly screws. Yes I have always agreed with you on this, nobody likes them. Well let's see how everybody likes to have a glued on top with binding, then need to remove it with a hot knife, because there is MUCH going on inside this guitar, as opposed to pretty much nothing inside a standard acoustic guitar, live with that theoretical people. OK really just having FUN with this topic, but it is real!
So Photoshop the screws out so I show a FAKE version of my guitar? What are you AI JJ? 🤣
Smoke out of the guitar? I really like this idea, something I have been thinking about!
Anyway, seriously, thank you JJ, you have been a good friend, and I appreciate your comments as always! I am happy that I mentioned you and Art on my Website. If I get lucky (who knows) you guys will get a cut of the bucks.
Let's see what AGM says, they may grill me even more, and that is OK!
Happy New Year! A question each for Art and JJ, if you get a chance:
JJ- I do like your idea of the 3 minute elevator pitch, and I do think if I get people to my website and video they will see it all, BUT I hear you about getting them there in the first place. Any basic pic and description from you would be helpful. I have many ways of showing this, so should be easy, just would like to get more detail from you. So maybe no fugly screws, and put this picture in its place.
Art - I may have mentioned before that I put the miniDSP mic as far as I could inside the horn as shown below, and it was measuring very high. I might be able to get some data for this today. I keep thinking about elongating the horn back toward the player, or a second port toward the player, which I know we discussed, and maybe it would not be helpful? I am thinking about standing waves and what might be trapped inside the horns, and not making it to my ear. I don't fully understand this of course, so I ask the Godfather.
When I have a fresh battery, good room size (not huge), fresh strings, enough time to experiment and get into the groove, volume on 8 is great, maybe 9 max, I love my sound and my headroom, really can't put the guitar down, but I always think about continuous improvement!
Thanks you Gents!
JJ- I do like your idea of the 3 minute elevator pitch, and I do think if I get people to my website and video they will see it all, BUT I hear you about getting them there in the first place. Any basic pic and description from you would be helpful. I have many ways of showing this, so should be easy, just would like to get more detail from you. So maybe no fugly screws, and put this picture in its place.
Art - I may have mentioned before that I put the miniDSP mic as far as I could inside the horn as shown below, and it was measuring very high. I might be able to get some data for this today. I keep thinking about elongating the horn back toward the player, or a second port toward the player, which I know we discussed, and maybe it would not be helpful? I am thinking about standing waves and what might be trapped inside the horns, and not making it to my ear. I don't fully understand this of course, so I ask the Godfather.
When I have a fresh battery, good room size (not huge), fresh strings, enough time to experiment and get into the groove, volume on 8 is great, maybe 9 max, I love my sound and my headroom, really can't put the guitar down, but I always think about continuous improvement!
Thanks you Gents!
Try Chinese marketing 101 -
Only in your case it would be "No Speaker Cab, More Freedom" and "😒 Dragging Speaker Around". The pic of the player would be the one with the smoke coming out the horn ports and "112 db!"
How you'd get the little dog to lift the leg on the old situation is beyond my scope. But their marketing message is clear, however subtle!
Only in your case it would be "No Speaker Cab, More Freedom" and "😒 Dragging Speaker Around". The pic of the player would be the one with the smoke coming out the horn ports and "112 db!"
How you'd get the little dog to lift the leg on the old situation is beyond my scope. But their marketing message is clear, however subtle!
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What I get from the preliminary ad are photos of an guitar in various stages of construction, none of which would entice me to buy it. The squiggly lines won't have meaning to most musicians, and will be dismissed by those that may understand them- why does a "normal conversation" result in a flat line from 20Hz to 20kHz?
Why is "My Folded Horn Acoustic Guitar" measured with and without horns?
There is little to suggest a viable product is available, why anyone would want to buy it, what it costs, what tonal controls it has, or how it is powered.
I've been explaining to you for over a year why your "Frequency Data" provides almost no useful information for a technician or a musician, but it's obvious you still don't understand 😉
Electric guitars have been made with easy back access to their electronics for over 75 years.
In the year 2025 the only excuse for fugly access screws on an acoustic electric guitar is poor design.
The inverse distance law applies inside the horn as well as outside, the closer the mic is to the horn throat, the more SPL, no surprise.
Directing the horn output to the lower left of the player as designed does not seem "helpful".
So JJ - what you have in mind is more of a conventional ad, I will consider this approach for sure, AGM may also suggest this, we shall see if they rip me a new one, or go with the flow. I am willing to take their suggestions of course.
Art - I appreciate the honest feedback. You have taught me many things, and for that I am grateful, but sometimes the student needs to question the professor. I do understand what you have been saying to me, I just don't agree with you on this Frequency Data point. It is plain as day that my guitar blows the dB way higher at every single frequency. I know we could argue about specific frequencies, or how data is captured and compared...but every single time I measure my guitar, every time, it has much higher dB at every single frequency, plenty of proof.
Plus you can hear this guitar easily blow away a standard acoustic guitar with no trouble at all, I have done it many times, and I love the tone! It is not that a quality acoustic guitar sounds bad in any way, they do not, I love them. But when you play one immediately after playing my guitar, you quickly get the feeling that they are lacking major power, and are not in the same power category as a Grand Piano, a Tenor Sax, and many times can't even compete with a strong and powerful human voice (don't get me started on the banjo). I know everything can have a mic thrown at it of course, but often times people just want to pick up a guitar and play, I know I do. I am comfortable with my stance, and I am not changing it.
Truth is my target audience is young guitar players that want to experiment with an acoustic guitar, want to make it rock, want much more power, do not expect the same acoustic guitar design that has not changed in over 100 years, but do very much appreciate using tone woods that sound beautiful, not plastic or carbon fiber. Of course it will take a good size company to see this market, and the future potential for decades to come, not just getting sales now. I need a tech guy with lots of money that loves guitars and loves to take chances...you know, something OUT THERE!
Anyway I know there will be people that love this product and people that do not like it, comes with the territory. So far the feedback has been very positive, but after AGM there will likely be people that challenge this concept, and that is OK. Plus I will run more than one ad, so if the first one does not cut the mustard, I can change it up for the next one.
Also I think questions are good: What the hell is this? Why am I seeing how the guitar is constructed? Every beautiful ad of every beautiful acoustic guitar that I see, I know what it is immediately, not what I would call a show stopper.
I want to steer people to my website and find out, watch the YouTube video, share it with your friends and see what they think, argue about it, put it down, praise it, hope for it, laugh at it, I don't care, just notice it and wonder! Also maybe some builder will love the concept, but think they can improve the design and build, OK go for it! I guarantee you they CAN improve it, no question, do it!
Happy New Year! Looking forward to more music fun in 2025!
Art - I appreciate the honest feedback. You have taught me many things, and for that I am grateful, but sometimes the student needs to question the professor. I do understand what you have been saying to me, I just don't agree with you on this Frequency Data point. It is plain as day that my guitar blows the dB way higher at every single frequency. I know we could argue about specific frequencies, or how data is captured and compared...but every single time I measure my guitar, every time, it has much higher dB at every single frequency, plenty of proof.
Plus you can hear this guitar easily blow away a standard acoustic guitar with no trouble at all, I have done it many times, and I love the tone! It is not that a quality acoustic guitar sounds bad in any way, they do not, I love them. But when you play one immediately after playing my guitar, you quickly get the feeling that they are lacking major power, and are not in the same power category as a Grand Piano, a Tenor Sax, and many times can't even compete with a strong and powerful human voice (don't get me started on the banjo). I know everything can have a mic thrown at it of course, but often times people just want to pick up a guitar and play, I know I do. I am comfortable with my stance, and I am not changing it.
Truth is my target audience is young guitar players that want to experiment with an acoustic guitar, want to make it rock, want much more power, do not expect the same acoustic guitar design that has not changed in over 100 years, but do very much appreciate using tone woods that sound beautiful, not plastic or carbon fiber. Of course it will take a good size company to see this market, and the future potential for decades to come, not just getting sales now. I need a tech guy with lots of money that loves guitars and loves to take chances...you know, something OUT THERE!
Anyway I know there will be people that love this product and people that do not like it, comes with the territory. So far the feedback has been very positive, but after AGM there will likely be people that challenge this concept, and that is OK. Plus I will run more than one ad, so if the first one does not cut the mustard, I can change it up for the next one.
Also I think questions are good: What the hell is this? Why am I seeing how the guitar is constructed? Every beautiful ad of every beautiful acoustic guitar that I see, I know what it is immediately, not what I would call a show stopper.
I want to steer people to my website and find out, watch the YouTube video, share it with your friends and see what they think, argue about it, put it down, praise it, hope for it, laugh at it, I don't care, just notice it and wonder! Also maybe some builder will love the concept, but think they can improve the design and build, OK go for it! I guarantee you they CAN improve it, no question, do it!
Happy New Year! Looking forward to more music fun in 2025!
I just thought of this (I don't recall it being mentioned in the thread before), though an amplified acoustic guitar is almost certainly "too conventional" for this. Also the the deadline for entry into the 2025 competition has passed, but still, you might find it interesting:
https://guthman.gatech.edu/
I've attended the the main concert in 2018 and 2019 (full concerts and more are on Youtube), it's always full of fascinating and "different" instruments.
https://guthman.gatech.edu/
I've attended the the main concert in 2018 and 2019 (full concerts and more are on Youtube), it's always full of fascinating and "different" instruments.
Thanks benb, I thought I responded to this earlier, must have forgot to send, really love it, thank you! One of my favorites is the guitar below!
Another construction picture for the AGM Ad...kidding... 🤣 I forgot how hot a drill gets when it runs through 3" of a hard maple assembly.
You guys have me thinking about glue vs. screws of course. I have some black coated screws...hmm, might even look worse? Checked out yet another video of removing a glued on soundboard, it is brutal. Since glue is often stronger than the wood itself, the wood does not come off easy.
I know "keep the top on always", a challenge for this guitar. I can redesign and have some back components come off instead, not as easy when the entire back may need to come off, plus would not be anywhere near as stable on a CNC machine that is ripping wood off, to make an unusual shape, but may be doable.
When Casey was done playing my guitar he said the intonation was excellent, many reasons for this. He also said it projected like a mother, love to hear that.
I see guitar videos on YouTube stating a guitar is never really in perfect tune on every string at every fret, I cry ********. Make the guitar a beast and nothing will move when you are playing it. Of course drop tune, or beat the hell out of it trying to get some power, then yes it could happen. I have played this guitar for hours without needing to retune at all, and still in perfect tune the next day. Size matters, hence Grand Pianos need to be tuned very infrequently.
Plus my soundboard bracing is cut in solid, not glued. Even the best glue job can have a few problem areas, especially at the end of bracing as the top moves and moves over years. A slight disconnect, and buzzing brace, then the top must come off, get the iron and hope for the best!
You guys have me thinking about glue vs. screws of course. I have some black coated screws...hmm, might even look worse? Checked out yet another video of removing a glued on soundboard, it is brutal. Since glue is often stronger than the wood itself, the wood does not come off easy.
I know "keep the top on always", a challenge for this guitar. I can redesign and have some back components come off instead, not as easy when the entire back may need to come off, plus would not be anywhere near as stable on a CNC machine that is ripping wood off, to make an unusual shape, but may be doable.
When Casey was done playing my guitar he said the intonation was excellent, many reasons for this. He also said it projected like a mother, love to hear that.
I see guitar videos on YouTube stating a guitar is never really in perfect tune on every string at every fret, I cry ********. Make the guitar a beast and nothing will move when you are playing it. Of course drop tune, or beat the hell out of it trying to get some power, then yes it could happen. I have played this guitar for hours without needing to retune at all, and still in perfect tune the next day. Size matters, hence Grand Pianos need to be tuned very infrequently.
Plus my soundboard bracing is cut in solid, not glued. Even the best glue job can have a few problem areas, especially at the end of bracing as the top moves and moves over years. A slight disconnect, and buzzing brace, then the top must come off, get the iron and hope for the best!
I thought the so called "Hide" glue had the property of being able to be undone. Like a violin could be fully disassembled and put back together by dissolving the Hide glue somehow; heat perhaps?
Or you could glue a rhinestone to each screw head and get some country player interested!
Or you could glue a rhinestone to each screw head and get some country player interested!
Why not JJ, if the Rhinestone look is good enough for Taylor Swift...maybe it is true: there is not much money to be made above the third fret 🤣
Yep the glue does come off pretty well with heat, hot iron, hot knife, hair drier, but not perfect, especially if the guitar is older. I pretty much destroyed my Washburn shown below by taking the top off. It had one of those really cool cutaway necks, but man that cutaway made the next completely separate from the guitar in about 15 years, so it was toast before I touched it, tradeoffs. Really liked that guitar while it lasted, great for acoustic soloing way way up the neck. This is the guitar that I took to a music shop for repair, and they suggested that I put it in the backyard, and put a birds nest in it, I never forgot that great line!
I can have my soundboard off in about ten minutes, zero damage. Then the neck comes off in about a minute. My dovetail actually has a compound angle on each side, so you are not pushing the dovetail down at the same "Z" location until it bottoms out, which can really wear out the fit. Mine pretty much locks in place when fit, and then it is screwed in also, so double safe, a beast. The maple is 3/4" thick around the dovetail, and not a sharp corner in sight.
Take off a standard dovetailed neck, sharp corner all the way down on each side, just asking for a crack. Anyway tradeoffs, I admit I am completely busted on the bad screw look, so thinking about alternatives.
We saw the Dylan movie this week, was really great. Like a Rolling Stone is one of my all time favorite songs, Al Kooper jumped into the studio to record it with them (if the story is true) and added the organ (I think a Hammond B2 or B3), what a great sound, recommended!
I did try two mag pickups in the Carvin (more with this still on my list), but I never tried it in the Folded Horn Acoustic Guitar, that I can remember. I know one only cranked up full does not get me the beautiful tone without the piezo, but what about two mag pickups on about 8, that will be plenty of power, as I know the piezo is weaker, might work. If it does give great tone (not too electric guitar like) I will have two pickups in my sound hole. More ugly for the sake of great sound, that is definitely my thing, but not everybody will agree!
Yep the glue does come off pretty well with heat, hot iron, hot knife, hair drier, but not perfect, especially if the guitar is older. I pretty much destroyed my Washburn shown below by taking the top off. It had one of those really cool cutaway necks, but man that cutaway made the next completely separate from the guitar in about 15 years, so it was toast before I touched it, tradeoffs. Really liked that guitar while it lasted, great for acoustic soloing way way up the neck. This is the guitar that I took to a music shop for repair, and they suggested that I put it in the backyard, and put a birds nest in it, I never forgot that great line!
I can have my soundboard off in about ten minutes, zero damage. Then the neck comes off in about a minute. My dovetail actually has a compound angle on each side, so you are not pushing the dovetail down at the same "Z" location until it bottoms out, which can really wear out the fit. Mine pretty much locks in place when fit, and then it is screwed in also, so double safe, a beast. The maple is 3/4" thick around the dovetail, and not a sharp corner in sight.
Take off a standard dovetailed neck, sharp corner all the way down on each side, just asking for a crack. Anyway tradeoffs, I admit I am completely busted on the bad screw look, so thinking about alternatives.
We saw the Dylan movie this week, was really great. Like a Rolling Stone is one of my all time favorite songs, Al Kooper jumped into the studio to record it with them (if the story is true) and added the organ (I think a Hammond B2 or B3), what a great sound, recommended!
I did try two mag pickups in the Carvin (more with this still on my list), but I never tried it in the Folded Horn Acoustic Guitar, that I can remember. I know one only cranked up full does not get me the beautiful tone without the piezo, but what about two mag pickups on about 8, that will be plenty of power, as I know the piezo is weaker, might work. If it does give great tone (not too electric guitar like) I will have two pickups in my sound hole. More ugly for the sake of great sound, that is definitely my thing, but not everybody will agree!