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by henkstroem
Fri Dec 01, 2023 12:37 pm
Forum: Art Shack
Topic: A short scale guitar gave me this visual arts idea
Replies: 3
Views: 401

Re: A short scale guitar gave me this visual arts idea

Made another, a bigger red one. Spraying nitrocellulose in freezing temperature was exciting.
by henkstroem
Sat Nov 11, 2023 8:29 am
Forum: Guitar Projects and Tech/Set-up
Topic: Electric Xii Build
Replies: 69
Views: 35397

Re: Electric Xii Build

Beautiful
by henkstroem
Wed Oct 11, 2023 7:49 pm
Forum: Art Shack
Topic: My new band - music now available!
Replies: 63
Views: 7562

Re: My new band - music now available!

Also, have to add that the album art works great and sticks out even in tiny spotify.
by henkstroem
Sat Oct 07, 2023 10:57 am
Forum: Guitar Projects and Tech/Set-up
Topic: 3 Bullet Mustang Projects
Replies: 16
Views: 1224

Re: Bullet Mustang Project

Beautiful. I enjoy seeing squiery nods towards classic-era Fenders.
by henkstroem
Wed Oct 04, 2023 2:15 pm
Forum: Art Shack
Topic: A short scale guitar gave me this visual arts idea
Replies: 3
Views: 401

A short scale guitar gave me this visual arts idea

Hello all. This is most likely the only place I'm going to share this. Feels kinda strange, but here it is; My work environment as many modern offices (and homes, i guess) is very minimalistic, newly refreshed and white. Also, colourful objects tend to be of the throwaway-plastic kind. Nothing one f...
by henkstroem
Wed Mar 15, 2023 7:23 pm
Forum: Musical Miscellany
Topic: Please help define Americana?
Replies: 9
Views: 1067

Re: Please help define Americana?

It may be the profit motivation is not necessarily part of a definition because IMHO most Americana musicians 1) ply the genre for love of the music and 2) have only a rare chance of making a living income. Exactly as you state it. If someone had merely a hunger for profits and their music would in...
by henkstroem
Sat Jan 14, 2023 6:39 pm
Forum: Guitar Projects and Tech/Set-up
Topic: Dano-style bass for kids
Replies: 14
Views: 1325

Re: Dano-style bass for kids

Doog wrote: Sat Jan 14, 2023 10:13 amSo sick!
Thank you
by henkstroem
Sat Jan 14, 2023 6:39 pm
Forum: Guitar Projects and Tech/Set-up
Topic: Dano-style bass for kids
Replies: 14
Views: 1325

Re: Dano-style bass for kids

plopswagon wrote: Fri Jan 13, 2023 2:36 pm That’s cool, it reminds me of Bill Wyman’s modified Tuxedo Bass

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Never seen that, cool. Now off to google who built it…
by henkstroem
Sat Jan 14, 2023 6:31 pm
Forum: Guitar Projects and Tech/Set-up
Topic: Dano-style bass for kids
Replies: 14
Views: 1325

Re: Dano-style bass for kids

Well, in favour of the strat, they are easy to fix, and easier to cannibalise together. And that presents teachable moments. I spend a fair bit of of my break and lunchtimes teaching other guitar nerds how to take apart and fix strats. Yes, and they have a cool factor among some teens. I prefer tel...
by henkstroem
Sat Jan 14, 2023 7:59 am
Forum: All Other Guitars
Topic: NGD TVL JM MIM OMFG
Replies: 18
Views: 1600

Re: NGD TVL JM MIM OMFG

It looks so fancy I need sunglasses, and also getting an urge to pour a glass of red and just watch it.
by henkstroem
Fri Jan 13, 2023 1:55 pm
Forum: Guitar Projects and Tech/Set-up
Topic: Dano-style bass for kids
Replies: 14
Views: 1325

Re: Dano-style bass for kids

Love the idea of a rubber foot. I think about this a lot, as I teach guitar to 400 different children across a two week timetable. Things get trashed (except for Roland Cubes, which I'm yet to encounter a dead one of). I try to think of ways that I would cut out non-essential features to make thing...
by henkstroem
Fri Jan 13, 2023 1:46 pm
Forum: Guitar Projects and Tech/Set-up
Topic: Dano-style bass for kids
Replies: 14
Views: 1325

Re: Dano-style bass for kids

Heres the feet and the controls. Tone is very tight so they dont do stuff with it. I plan on playing country tic tac with this so might need the tone. It sounds very much like a dano baritone, which it kinda is.
by henkstroem
Fri Jan 13, 2023 1:42 pm
Forum: Guitar Projects and Tech/Set-up
Topic: Dano-style bass for kids
Replies: 14
Views: 1325

Re: Dano-style bass for kids

It is almost as short as the 1448 which is itself tiny, and a guitar. And smaller.
by henkstroem
Fri Jan 13, 2023 1:39 pm
Forum: Guitar Projects and Tech/Set-up
Topic: Dano-style bass for kids
Replies: 14
Views: 1325

Re: Dano-style bass for kids

Textile tape cost one euro. Will be enough for 30 basses. Painted a friends tele black years ago, leftovers were spent here. Neck is finished with shellac that was left from a chair renovation I did.
by henkstroem
Fri Jan 13, 2023 1:35 pm
Forum: Guitar Projects and Tech/Set-up
Topic: Dano-style bass for kids
Replies: 14
Views: 1325

Re: Dano-style bass for kids

Had a dano bridge, and thought I would need two, so built another one. The are almost a hundred dollars now, wont pay that. But as often happens, a cheap Fender-clone was better so this was all in vain.

As a Fender fanboy, had to make a neck stamp.
by henkstroem
Fri Jan 13, 2023 1:33 pm
Forum: Guitar Projects and Tech/Set-up
Topic: Dano-style bass for kids
Replies: 14
Views: 1325

Re: Dano-style bass for kids

Cut the wood for two. Assumed most things would go wrong with the first one so good to have a spare.
by henkstroem
Fri Jan 13, 2023 1:27 pm
Forum: Guitar Projects and Tech/Set-up
Topic: Dano-style bass for kids
Replies: 14
Views: 1325

Dano-style bass for kids

I teach bass among a multitude of jobs. I have a Gretsch junior jet bass for kids, but it is too heavy for most children under twelve. Kids love Hofners, but they are a wee bit fragile, and did not trust my club bass with them many times. Danelectros are hard to come by, reissues are solid body (=he...
by henkstroem
Sat Dec 31, 2022 4:38 pm
Forum: Short Scales
Topic: pictures of your shortscales
Replies: 2192
Views: 1035234

Re: pictures of your shortscales

Beautiful Mustangs. Is the worn one matching headstock gold or what? Really cool. Thanks- it’s a heavily worn in competition orange that supposedly spent the first 40 years of its life in the good behavior room of a prison. There’s still remnants of the red comp stripe on the side by the strap butt...
by henkstroem
Sat Dec 31, 2022 7:42 am
Forum: Short Scales
Topic: pictures of your shortscales
Replies: 2192
Views: 1035234

Re: pictures of your shortscales

Beautiful Mustangs. Is the worn one matching headstock gold or what? Really cool.

Also, my -64MM is 22,5” A and -71MM 24” B.

The -64 is thin at the nut but quickly baseballbats itself by the seventh fret. A cool, albeit strange neck.