So, did everyone survive the day?
@Archimage I have survived the day, largely by turning off what these days is called Media. Did some tuning machine conversion on a baroque lute, cut a new nut blank for a four-string 'cigar box guitar', and put up more rabbit fencing. My reward is to sit here sipping a serviceable white while Mrs Me finishes cooking a salmon dinner.
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@rogerscrafford Sounds more productive than my day. Good for you! Yup I’m still here, so I guess that’s a success.
@joeltimmins Both, actually. I'm building the guitar, and I'm now at the nut-notching stage. The neck is 1-1/2" wide.
@rogerscrafford Are you using a kit to build it or finding your own material? Although I imagine a kit would have a pre-notched nut. It sounds like a fun project.
@joeltimmins Built from scratch, except for the box. We like the really old boxes, around 100 years, because they're usually all wood. A friend named Wayne has some good power tools, so he shapes the neck on his table router, then glues on the slotted fretboard.
When he brings me what he has, I set about making it work: - press in the frets (usually 24) and level and crown the odd high ones; - install whatever electrical bits are required (this one has one P-Bass pickup from a pair of them); - conjure some sort of pickup adjustment so I can work with the not-yet-established string height; - drill string holes in a door strike plate for use as a tailpiece; - run a grounding wire from the output jack to the tailpiece; - make some sort of bridge piece, usually ebony with a piece of appropriately notched fret wire for a saddle.
There's a lot more, but this note is getting too long!
@rogerscrafford ... and I forgot to double-space after each of the list items, so they're all lumped into an unsightly mess.
@rogerscrafford Very impressive—so this isn't a one-time project. Are these something you sell or is it more of a hobby? Do you also regularly work on baroque lutes?