Doing Things Wrong

Other Guitars

Instruments with non-standard tunings.


This body is maple plywood over a hollow pine core, double-bound. It came out very lightweight, too light to balance even a guitar neck. This was originally going to be the 12-string, but I realized that it would never balance. So I shuffled parts and bodies between some other projects - a planned six-string got canceled and became the twelver. That left this body free. I thought about it a while and decided it would make a good mandolin.


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I stumbled across this stuff online, and it looked so incredible that I impulse-bought a quart. A finish that you can smear on with a sponge and cure in 3 minutes with sunshine? That cuts finishing time from months to weeks to one day !!!