Cookie Tin slide guitar

My first home made instrument. I want to thank Todd from here http://www.youtube.com/user/doogey9
For the inspiration to make something, he puts up a lot of homemade instruments and covers of great old folk songs, thanks Todd! My cookie tin guitar has 4 strings and I tuned it GDg but the low G string has an octave string with it like a 12 string guitar. I can not get over how easy it was to build this. Everybody go down into your basements and find some junk and make something! It is a lot of fun and it is a cool feeling to be able to make music on something that would have just ended up in the trash!!!

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[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!

[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.

[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]

@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.

[LongJohnsList]

are those regular guitar strings? if so which ones?