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Don Christensen:

October 9, 2024 at 7:33 PM

Just found your site looking for wiring info. Started looking around I’ll be back.
The telebass has my interest.

José Pedro Morgado:

July 22, 2024 at 3:23 PM

Hi!

This site of yours can have the same impact in guitar building as the Nietzsche works had on occidental philosophy. We can say "let there be light" on all the medieval rites of luthiers all over the planet. I doubted to be capable of repairing a fretboard, let alone build a guitar, but this fresh and rational approach to problems and details gave a much needed confidence.
Just to thank you. Better print all this pages, before a nuclear blast ends the existence of internet...

Best regards,
José Pedro

Stephan Langella:

June 24, 2024 at 6:02 AM

Hey mate,
Thank you for your section on the Dano bridge. One I'd recently bought (I have 7) has a bowed bridge and I'd been googling for a replacement. Your article makes perfect sense and I totally agree regarding intonation too. Thanks heaps for posting.
Cheers,
Stephan
(Sydney Australia)

Lee Thompson:

January 23, 2024 at 1:32 PM

Enjoyed perusing the site...I have a good friend who originally apprenticed under his dad as a cabinet maker and later went back to school and got his degree in mechanical engineering. He's a really smart guy, down to earth, and sharp as a tack. You guys sound like you could be related! I have been considering building a Danelectro type guitar. I'm a lefty so my options are limited...any info about vintage sounding lipstick style pickups is appreciated. Paying for a "Booteak" pickup to duplicate a budget pickup seems like a nitwit move. Anyway, thanks for sharing your knowledge and insights. There's a lot of hogwash out there...

TatBou:

January 13, 2024 at 2:12 AM

Man I love what your doing and how your doing it, keep up the great work!

P.S.
My favorite builds the upright audiovox

John Paxton:

November 25, 2022 at 4:41 AM

Hi
I have found your website - and your approach to building guitars and your techniques utterly inspirational.
I build electric lap steel guitars, mainly from recycled, reclaimed and re-used materials, searching skips and freebie bins in DIY stores - looting anything which might be useful.

I have a new website - still under construction https://sites.google.com/view/paxtonelapsteelguitars/home?authuser=0 . Thanks to your passion for Audiovox, I have just built a replica 436 lap steel - from a mahogany window sill. Beautiful shape.

I'm thinking of building a DanElectro style - hollow-body masonite, not the solid body they made - lap steel. Could be interetsting!

Thanks again
Best wishes
John Paxton
Tasburgh, Norfolk UK

Alan Herbst:

July 15, 2022 at 8:46 PM

Hi! Stumbled in here by accident and I am TOTALLY hooked!
Have you ever done anything with a Les Paul carved top style body in a short scale bass?
Due to arthritis I am now playing short basses. I spoiled myself with neck through basses for 40 years and now I find no one makes them short (for a reasonable price) so I am on a quest to create my own, eventually. I'm gonna start with modifying random guitars like you have.
Peace!
Alan

Bob Yost:

July 8, 2022 at 11:51 AM

Wonderful Amazing Work! ThankU
May I ask how about
Have you ever made a 3-string? Bass
Me Silly’
Bob

Harri H.:

June 16, 2022 at 3:10 PM

Hello! Great content in these corners of internet. I find myself coming back here quite often lately. I read your stuff with great interest. I like your sense of humour very much also!
I have 4 Korean Made Danelectros and they need some care. I just started the process of straightening those bridges. I'm going to add one more screw in the middle for support that plate. You wrote somewhere that the old ones don't warp. Well, I guess it's like with everything: you get less and less for your money, even if it seems otherwise.
Greetings from, at the moment, sunny Finland. HH.

Ed Malison:

March 25, 2022 at 8:30 PM

I like your website. I see innovation all over.

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The new paint is dry enough to handle, so I re-assembled the headless bridge. It is sitting on top of the piece of scrap wood that I screwed it to while I was painting it. That gives you a good idea of what the hammered paint looks like if you lay it on thick enough. The bridge is smoother because I sanded between coats. I also rubbed some of the shine off it. By the time I get back around to this, the paint will be rock-hard. I had to do some careful scraping to get the saddles to fit back into the tracks.

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