I built a Jerry Can guitar :-)

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A quick build, maybe 4-5 hours maximum. Turned out great! Used a neck off a broken Takamine.

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That sounds surprisingly good.
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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.
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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.
Maybe putting electric strings on it and putting a funky old single coil near the neck would produce something along those lines.
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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'.
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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?
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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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Brings a different meaning to having GAS for a guitar...
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Great project. Good job. A friend of mine built an amp w/a can like that.
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Very cool deeaa. You are a creative dude.

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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.
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Looks like a pickup could fit easily about 1/3 the way up from bridge to neck.
Sounds nice.
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Super creative and I really actually like that colour too. Congrats!
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Partscaster wrote:Looks like a pickup could fit easily about 1/3 the way up from bridge to neck.
Sounds nice.
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.

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Turned out great. I see what you mean almost too straight classical considering what a wild creation it is. Amazing tone metal.
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Nice job. Sounds good. Well done deeaa!
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now THATS cool!
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