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To be honest, I don't know! :grin: I just asked for the A, D, b and e strings for a regular classical guitar, since that's quite close in scale length to this instrument, and in my experience you can...

Thanks! The volume's a bit lower, though with the large soundhole and extremely thin top (2mm) it's still not bad. More than your average nylon-strung guitar.



Thanks! It's a got a fishman...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMpCoNPZy-g

Here's a short video of an instrument I made almost two years ago. It's a bouzouki with a (more or less) guitar-shaped body, based on Graham McDonald's...

And he's using it to make an electric guitar. *facepalm*

This makes too much sense to be true :D

What about the tenor mandola, the alto mandola, the *shivers* octave mandola, and the great big pile of instruments called "cittern"?

And after all, a problem we cannot see is a problem that's not really there anyway!:D

With all three instruments I built, I glued on the neck first, then the top and back plates. That way, I could make sure everything as perfectly aligned too.

I wonder though, why are there 9 holes in the headstock?

My bouzouki used to have a bone saddle, but currently it's got a steel one - started as a temporary measure, but hard on it's way to becoming permanent. It doesn't sound nice though, way too sharp...

I'll be sure to buy that book when it comes out:) I really like te first one, for the information as well as the stunning pictures it has. I'd never heard of Stefan Sobell before, had a look at his...

It looks very nice:) I'm with most other people, in that the soundhole looks too large. It doesn't look nice, it would make for a very punchy sound I think, and it might even affect the structural...

I very much doubt that there's any effect on the sound of the instrument itself. However, as mentioned, it does affect the playability of the instrument - I myself prefer the courses to be spaced...

As long as the frets and nut are ok, it's always possible to make a fitting bridge. If you measure the frequency of the open string, and the frequency of the same string when pushed at the 12th fret,...

That looks very nice on the point, it suggests that when you put the lights out it will glow:p

A short question. Is there any difference between banjo strings and guitar strings, when they are of equal length and thickness? Apart from loop/ball-end that is.

Anyone know what that reel is called? It's also in the soundtrack of Anno 1503, I always loved that one but in the game it doesn't say what it's called:(

Did they always come with laser strings? WANT!:D

I bought mine at the shop that sells cloth/fabric/curtains/carpets/thatsortastuff.

For my new bouzouki (http://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/showthread.php?82340-Bouzouki-construction-project) I bought a Fishman mando bridge from Stewmac. Made for an archtop mandolin, but since the...

On my bouzouki and mandola, I don't have any trouble with the afterlength making any sound. On the banjo however, if I don't dampen those bits of string, the instrument sounds like crap. Probably due...

Thanks for all the comments!:D

Tuners are Schertlers, black with ebony knobs:...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOzS8sFAtrc

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It's finished!:D

Yesterday, after three days that seemed to take forever, the strings I ordered arrived. I've strung my beauty up, and she sounds wonderful:)...

Is it possible that it is touching something in the middle? The dust converges to the places where the plate doesn't vibrate, if your plate is being touched by something in the middle, that would...

I don't really mind much - the instrument will sound just as well if it's made using inches. And indeed, what system you use largely depends on where you're born, so you can't blame anyone for it....