Taylor and Tenor
Aug-14-2009, 9:07am
I came across a mini-electric guitar at the Transfer Station (Town dump) the other day and thought I might be able to make an electric octave mandolin from it as it had a 19 scale length.
Once I got it home, I narrowed the width of the neck, cut down the in-line tuners to four, removed a couple tail stock saddles, reworked the head stock a little, threw on a set of Irish tenor banjo strings and tuned the instrument to GDAE. Need to cover the fifth tuner hole with Irish half cent piece and the conversion will be complete.
I pluged it into a friend's practice amp and it sounds great. The ability to bend the strings a little adds a new dimension to the sound but probably won't go over too well at an ITM session.
Not that I am into electric mandolins but it will go along with an Aria four string double point mando that I reworked a few months ago.
Once I got it home, I narrowed the width of the neck, cut down the in-line tuners to four, removed a couple tail stock saddles, reworked the head stock a little, threw on a set of Irish tenor banjo strings and tuned the instrument to GDAE. Need to cover the fifth tuner hole with Irish half cent piece and the conversion will be complete.
I pluged it into a friend's practice amp and it sounds great. The ability to bend the strings a little adds a new dimension to the sound but probably won't go over too well at an ITM session.
Not that I am into electric mandolins but it will go along with an Aria four string double point mando that I reworked a few months ago.