I built a Jerry Can guitar :-)
Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2020 1:28 am
A quick build, maybe 4-5 hours maximum. Turned out great! Used a neck off a broken Takamine.
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Re: I built a Jerry Can guitar :-)
Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2020 5:43 am
That sounds surprisingly good.
Re: I built a Jerry Can guitar :-)
Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2020 6:28 am
Yeah, I don't know if I should be glad it sounds so nice - I was kinda hoping for something that would have a ratty, bluesy or somehow special sound I could create maybe interesting intros etc, but this just sounds like a nylon string basically for all intents and purposes.
Re: I built a Jerry Can guitar :-)
Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2020 6:47 am
Maybe putting electric strings on it and putting a funky old single coil near the neck would produce something along those lines.deeaa wrote: ↑Wed Nov 11, 2020 6:28 am Yeah, I don't know if I should be glad it sounds so nice - I was kinda hoping for something that would have a ratty, bluesy or somehow special sound I could create maybe interesting intros etc, but this just sounds like a nylon string basically for all intents and purposes.
Re: I built a Jerry Can guitar :-)
Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2020 6:49 am
I'm sure it would, but I doubt the jerry can could withstand the pull of the electric strings well enough with no separate support inside for the 'top'.
Re: I built a Jerry Can guitar :-)
Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2020 8:32 am
Not at all what I expected from the subject line...i was thinking jerry canTRELL 
. It sounds very good though and I like the tune you were playing as well...it that something of your own creation too?
. It sounds very good though and I like the tune you were playing as well...it that something of your own creation too?Re: I built a Jerry Can guitar :-)
Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2020 9:44 am
Just randomly picking chords and notes...no song. Although many of my songs do use similar build-on-Open D chord additions.
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Re: I built a Jerry Can guitar :-)
Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2020 10:09 am
Brings a different meaning to having GAS for a guitar...
Re: I built a Jerry Can guitar :-)
Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2020 11:36 am
Great project. Good job. A friend of mine built an amp w/a can like that.
Re: I built a Jerry Can guitar :-)
Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2020 12:36 pm
Very cool deeaa. You are a creative dude.
Here is a band that plays unique homemade instruments out live.
Here is a band that plays unique homemade instruments out live.
Re: I built a Jerry Can guitar :-)
Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2020 1:09 pm
That sounds better than I was expecting. Better than the commercially-made "oil can" guitars that Sam Ash carried for a (short) while a couple years ago.
Re: I built a Jerry Can guitar :-)
Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2020 6:09 pm
Looks like a pickup could fit easily about 1/3 the way up from bridge to neck.
Sounds nice.
Sounds nice.
Re: I built a Jerry Can guitar :-)
Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2020 9:48 pm
Super creative and I really actually like that colour too. Congrats!
Re: I built a Jerry Can guitar :-)
Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2020 12:06 am
There's a piezo in the bridge, it is enough for me - can also mic it with a proper large-diaphragm mic if need be.Partscaster wrote:Looks like a pickup could fit easily about 1/3 the way up from bridge to neck.
Sounds nice.
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Re: I built a Jerry Can guitar :-)
Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2020 12:36 am
Turned out great. I see what you mean almost too straight classical considering what a wild creation it is. Amazing tone metal.
Re: I built a Jerry Can guitar :-)
Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2020 8:05 pm
Nice job. Sounds good. Well done deeaa!
Re: I built a Jerry Can guitar :-)
Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2020 6:41 pm
now THATS cool!
Re: I built a Jerry Can guitar :-)
Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2020 1:41 am
So much for tonewoods being important for acoustic guitars.