Fender Duo-caster into E-mando?

[joannajetson]

I'm looking at a reissue Fender Duo-caster, a 6-string electric guitar with a 22-1/2" scale length, and wondering if I could turn it into an electric mandola/octave mando sort of thing. Obviously, even with the short scale length, I'd have to fumble around a bit to figure out what gauge strings would work for fifths tuning. Has anyone out there ever tried this? Thanx!

Joanna

[rico mando]

have you looked at my recent post titled squire mini conversion. its say 21 in scale but it was actually 22 1/2 in scale the A string is a .014 and is a bit tight

[joannajetson]

Thanks very much - that's a very useful thread!

Joanna

[mrmando]

Some useful info here:

http://emando.com/builders_active/mi...structions.htm

[taboot]

Martin, thanks for that link - good stuff. I've been all over emando.com, but never to that particular page.

Christian

[joannajetson]

Yes, thanks for the e-mando site - excellent instructions!