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when the guitar is closed, you may want to put a towel or something in between the neck and the body to keep it from damaging itself.
this guitar doesn't hold a tune. my guitar didn't hold a tune before, so that might be it, but be warned.
you may want to add side guards to the string organizer. on my design, the strings would fall off the side of the cylinder.
I know this is not an original idea. but it's original because I am the first to DIY this guitar (as opposed to the commercially available one).
this method doesn't work for fused neck guitars. only bolted ones.
you can endlessly adapt this method. I'm just documenting mine. for instance, ironsmiter added this comment (this is just an excerpt):
Step 4 ; It's usually called a Rabbet. Sometimes, mistaken for a Dado(which is really only a rabbet on the face side of the board, rather than the side).
Step 5 ; I think a Door hinge(maybe a little overkill) would be plenty strong, and a brass one might look nice too.
By using 2 dead-bolts on the back, and a piece of velcro strap, you could avoid the whole string winder issue. Basically, loosen the strings a bit with the tuning pegs, wrap the lower neck once with the velcro strap, undo the deadbolts, and fold. The strap should hold the strings pretty well in place, and the dead bolts should resist the folding forces well, when re-tuning the guitar.
I really like the strap idea- the string winder seemed like a good idea, but it doesn't work as well as i'd hoped. this just reiterates the idea that this isn't set in stone, and it's an endlessly changeable project.
this guitar doesn't hold a tune. my guitar didn't hold a tune before, so that might be it, but be warned.
you may want to add side guards to the string organizer. on my design, the strings would fall off the side of the cylinder.
I know this is not an original idea. but it's original because I am the first to DIY this guitar (as opposed to the commercially available one).
this method doesn't work for fused neck guitars. only bolted ones.
you can endlessly adapt this method. I'm just documenting mine. for instance, ironsmiter added this comment (this is just an excerpt):
Step 4 ; It's usually called a Rabbet. Sometimes, mistaken for a Dado(which is really only a rabbet on the face side of the board, rather than the side).
Step 5 ; I think a Door hinge(maybe a little overkill) would be plenty strong, and a brass one might look nice too.
By using 2 dead-bolts on the back, and a piece of velcro strap, you could avoid the whole string winder issue. Basically, loosen the strings a bit with the tuning pegs, wrap the lower neck once with the velcro strap, undo the deadbolts, and fold. The strap should hold the strings pretty well in place, and the dead bolts should resist the folding forces well, when re-tuning the guitar.
I really like the strap idea- the string winder seemed like a good idea, but it doesn't work as well as i'd hoped. this just reiterates the idea that this isn't set in stone, and it's an endlessly changeable project.
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Jun 5, 2009. 10:14 PMnckballer
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Will you post a vid this is an amazing idea good job!
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Jun 6, 2009. 4:42 PMcodongolev (author)
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sorry, I don't have a camera. but I really don't know how a video would help.
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Dec 2, 2011. 6:52 PM
freeza36
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freeza36
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If you don't have a camera, how did you make the 'ible? Or do you mean you don't have a video camera?
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Dec 4, 2011. 1:21 PMcodongolev (author)
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I don't have a video camera.
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Jun 8, 2009. 1:53 PMgoeon
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the video for sound quality
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Sep 17, 2009. 1:11 PMGuitar_slave
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this is very good project but it does terrible thing to guitar i wouldn't personaly tried it but...you made it well done!!
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Sep 19, 2009. 10:41 AMcodongolev (author)
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yeah.... I was willing to risk that guitar's life for a contest, but I didn't win, so whatever. the guitar was already terrible, though. it's been dropped so many times. the worst was on one halloween. I dressed up as a rock star. I had heelys to collect candy faster (and therefore more candy). a rock got lodged inside. the wheel locked up. the neck split in two lengthwise down to the second fret. that was an awkward trip to the repair shop.....
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Jun 19, 2009. 8:10 PMblackcorvo
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you could have done the string winder not that big... it may be really uncomfortable to play with that thing in there O.o and yeah the project is really cool... but I remember of seeing a guy that created a folding guitar, if I'm not wrong he's from the US airforce and was tired of having his guitar damaged when travelling so he made something that could fit inside a common school bag and now he sells that guitar... anyway you did a nice job!
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