Cookie Tin slide guitar

[thedevioustree]

for the neck did you have a rod in it or just use the wood?

[MrPlatypus70]

@thedevioustree Just a piece of wood, a 1x3 board I sanded down both sides to make it narrower (still pretty wide) I measured the fret spacing from my parlor guitar and made fret markers in those places. I was not sure the pine board would hold against the string tension but it seams to be fine 1 year later.

[thedevioustree]

@MrPlatypus70 how long is the neck?



[MrPlatypus70]

@thedevioustree The neck goes through the can to the other end so including the headstock it is 32 inches. The important thing to measure is the length of the strings from the nut to the bridge. This needs to be the same as the guitar used to measure the fret spacing. In the case of the parlor guitar I used (the Art & Lutherie ami I use in a lot of my videos) that length is 25 inches. Once you get that measurement the same you space the fret markers the same distance apart as on the guitar.

[thedevioustree]

@MrPlatypus70 cheers dude big help :)



[MrPlatypus70]

@thedevioustree No problem you should make one real easy and pretty fun to play!

[yang2qiao2]

Hey 'pus, that sounds MENTAL. Beautiful tone and big resonance and what you're playing is super musical. Kudos on the kookietar! Keep playing and building and posting!

[MrPlatypus70]

@yang2qiao2 Thanks for listening! It's a lot of fun and real easy to make one of these. I think everyone should make one, even if you are not a guitar player it is real easy to start out on something like this.

[LongJohnsList]

are those regular guitar strings? if so which ones?

[MrPlatypus70]

@LongJohnsList I use Martin Marquis strings they are just some I had laying around I think the low pair of strings is an A string and a B string (like the A string pair on a 12 string) and the other two are a D string and a G string (whatever gauges medium martin stings are). Tuned G(octave pair) D G The way this thing is set up you could easily change string gauges to use different tunings as there are no slots in the nut, it is just a dowel.

[gillygilly250]

you remind me of the servant from scary movie 2. 

[MrPlatypus70]

@gillygilly250 They guy who licks the turkey??? I don't really see it but whatever.

[msmrbandit]

if you know how to make a tin can phone post here and then make a video so i can do it

[MrPlatypus70]

@msmrbandit I don't know, those are pretty high tech. I will look into it and see what I can do.

[msmrbandit]

how much did the radio mic cost

[MrPlatypus70]

@msmrbandit I think about 2 bucks.

[unstrung13]

!!!!!!!!

[MrPlatypus70]

@unstrung13 Thanks for the exclaimation points!!!!!!!!!

[ken6675]

well done platypus, great sounding one of these days I am going to try to make one.

Ken G

[MrPlatypus70]

Do it Ken, it is way easier than I thought it would be. Took about 1 1/2 hours total.

[KYOTOZOOM]

Wow! Really awesome!

This guitar is made good than my Explorer.

[MrPlatypus70]

Thanks, you should make one! It is real easy!

[YoppyKyabetsu]

That doubled bass string give it some serious growl. Now I am gonna have to make another. You played the fire out of it.

[MrPlatypus70]

Thanks Yoppy, I was copying Todd's ugly stick instrument at first which has two sets of unison strings, when I changed to a 3 string GDG tuning I has an extra tuner on it already and I always thought slide sounded great on a 12 string, like Leo Kottke or some of the old blues guys like Willie McTell so I added the octave string and it really worked out nice.

[russbuss415]

really great job on that!

[MrPlatypus70]

Thanks Russ, I had a lot of fun making it.

[ukecantdothat]

Instant down-home goodness. My oh my... really gets that resonator thing going when you plugged it in.

Well done, MrP.

[MrPlatypus70]

thanks, I was surprised at the electric sound too. Thinking of maybe adding a magnetic pickup so I can really crank it up without feedback.

[ukecantdothat]

Yeah, add a pickup, maybe a soapbar, but keep that piezo for recording direct. Very cool.

[doogey9]

That was excellent!!!

right to fav's and a 5 star rating....which should be 10 stars....

that was a smash up job Tom!

[MrPlatypus70]

Thanks Todd, you were my inspiration to finally give this a try.

[kennymelodica]

you rock on so many levels

awesome!

[MrPlatypus70]

Thanks so much!!

[helveticaukes]

sounds great!

[MrPlatypus70]

Thank you very much.

[krabbers]

sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet

[MrPlatypus70]

Thanks Krabbers, I am hooked now, I have been looking at all the crap in my basement tyring to figure out what I can get some sound out of!!

[floydbluethereal]

Sounds awesome!

[MrPlatypus70]

Thanks, I was pretty happy with it for a first try.