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by henkstroem
Tue Jul 02, 2024 5:40 pm
Forum: Short Scales
Topic: NGD: FINALLY got a Jaguar again
Replies: 9
Views: 1916

Re: NGD: FINALLY got a Jaguar again

A friend who is a music teacher did that type of damage to his tele. He had just told his pupils everything about how to be careful with instruments and how he would carry his guitar himself and not give it to young carefree hands - when as he lifted it with at least a third of the might of middle-a...
by henkstroem
Fri Dec 01, 2023 12:37 pm
Forum: Art Shack
Topic: A short scale guitar gave me this visual arts idea
Replies: 3
Views: 1148

Re: A short scale guitar gave me this visual arts idea

Made another, a bigger red one. Spraying nitrocellulose in freezing temperature was exciting.
by henkstroem
Sat Nov 11, 2023 8:29 am
Forum: Guitar Projects and Tech/Set-up
Topic: Electric Xii Build
Replies: 69
Views: 38197

Re: Electric Xii Build

Beautiful
by henkstroem
Wed Oct 11, 2023 7:49 pm
Forum: Art Shack
Topic: Fashion tips - new album available!
Replies: 69
Views: 12986

Re: My new band - music now available!

Also, have to add that the album art works great and sticks out even in tiny spotify.
by henkstroem
Sat Oct 07, 2023 10:57 am
Forum: Guitar Projects and Tech/Set-up
Topic: 3 Bullet Mustang Projects
Replies: 16
Views: 2299

Re: Bullet Mustang Project

Beautiful. I enjoy seeing squiery nods towards classic-era Fenders.
by henkstroem
Wed Oct 04, 2023 2:15 pm
Forum: Art Shack
Topic: A short scale guitar gave me this visual arts idea
Replies: 3
Views: 1148

A short scale guitar gave me this visual arts idea

Hello all. This is most likely the only place I'm going to share this. Feels kinda strange, but here it is; My work environment as many modern offices (and homes, i guess) is very minimalistic, newly refreshed and white. Also, colourful objects tend to be of the throwaway-plastic kind. Nothing one f...
by henkstroem
Wed Mar 15, 2023 7:23 pm
Forum: Musical Miscellany
Topic: Please help define Americana?
Replies: 9
Views: 2252

Re: Please help define Americana?

It may be the profit motivation is not necessarily part of a definition because IMHO most Americana musicians 1) ply the genre for love of the music and 2) have only a rare chance of making a living income. Exactly as you state it. If someone had merely a hunger for profits and their music would in...
by henkstroem
Sat Jan 14, 2023 6:39 pm
Forum: Guitar Projects and Tech/Set-up
Topic: Dano-style bass for kids
Replies: 14
Views: 2449

Re: Dano-style bass for kids

Doog wrote: Sat Jan 14, 2023 10:13 amSo sick!
Thank you
by henkstroem
Sat Jan 14, 2023 6:39 pm
Forum: Guitar Projects and Tech/Set-up
Topic: Dano-style bass for kids
Replies: 14
Views: 2449

Re: Dano-style bass for kids

plopswagon wrote: Fri Jan 13, 2023 2:36 pm That’s cool, it reminds me of Bill Wyman’s modified Tuxedo Bass

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Never seen that, cool. Now off to google who built it…
by henkstroem
Sat Jan 14, 2023 6:31 pm
Forum: Guitar Projects and Tech/Set-up
Topic: Dano-style bass for kids
Replies: 14
Views: 2449

Re: Dano-style bass for kids

Well, in favour of the strat, they are easy to fix, and easier to cannibalise together. And that presents teachable moments. I spend a fair bit of of my break and lunchtimes teaching other guitar nerds how to take apart and fix strats. Yes, and they have a cool factor among some teens. I prefer tel...
by henkstroem
Sat Jan 14, 2023 7:59 am
Forum: All Other Guitars
Topic: NGD TVL JM MIM OMFG
Replies: 18
Views: 2827

Re: NGD TVL JM MIM OMFG

It looks so fancy I need sunglasses, and also getting an urge to pour a glass of red and just watch it.
by henkstroem
Fri Jan 13, 2023 1:55 pm
Forum: Guitar Projects and Tech/Set-up
Topic: Dano-style bass for kids
Replies: 14
Views: 2449

Re: Dano-style bass for kids

Love the idea of a rubber foot. I think about this a lot, as I teach guitar to 400 different children across a two week timetable. Things get trashed (except for Roland Cubes, which I'm yet to encounter a dead one of). I try to think of ways that I would cut out non-essential features to make thing...
by henkstroem
Fri Jan 13, 2023 1:46 pm
Forum: Guitar Projects and Tech/Set-up
Topic: Dano-style bass for kids
Replies: 14
Views: 2449

Re: Dano-style bass for kids

Heres the feet and the controls. Tone is very tight so they dont do stuff with it. I plan on playing country tic tac with this so might need the tone. It sounds very much like a dano baritone, which it kinda is.
by henkstroem
Fri Jan 13, 2023 1:42 pm
Forum: Guitar Projects and Tech/Set-up
Topic: Dano-style bass for kids
Replies: 14
Views: 2449

Re: Dano-style bass for kids

It is almost as short as the 1448 which is itself tiny, and a guitar. And smaller.
by henkstroem
Fri Jan 13, 2023 1:39 pm
Forum: Guitar Projects and Tech/Set-up
Topic: Dano-style bass for kids
Replies: 14
Views: 2449

Re: Dano-style bass for kids

Textile tape cost one euro. Will be enough for 30 basses. Painted a friends tele black years ago, leftovers were spent here. Neck is finished with shellac that was left from a chair renovation I did.
by henkstroem
Fri Jan 13, 2023 1:35 pm
Forum: Guitar Projects and Tech/Set-up
Topic: Dano-style bass for kids
Replies: 14
Views: 2449

Re: Dano-style bass for kids

Had a dano bridge, and thought I would need two, so built another one. The are almost a hundred dollars now, wont pay that. But as often happens, a cheap Fender-clone was better so this was all in vain.

As a Fender fanboy, had to make a neck stamp.
by henkstroem
Fri Jan 13, 2023 1:33 pm
Forum: Guitar Projects and Tech/Set-up
Topic: Dano-style bass for kids
Replies: 14
Views: 2449

Re: Dano-style bass for kids

Cut the wood for two. Assumed most things would go wrong with the first one so good to have a spare.
by henkstroem
Fri Jan 13, 2023 1:27 pm
Forum: Guitar Projects and Tech/Set-up
Topic: Dano-style bass for kids
Replies: 14
Views: 2449

Dano-style bass for kids

I teach bass among a multitude of jobs. I have a Gretsch junior jet bass for kids, but it is too heavy for most children under twelve. Kids love Hofners, but they are a wee bit fragile, and did not trust my club bass with them many times. Danelectros are hard to come by, reissues are solid body (=he...
by henkstroem
Sat Dec 31, 2022 4:38 pm
Forum: Short Scales
Topic: pictures of your shortscales
Replies: 2195
Views: 1046761

Re: pictures of your shortscales

Beautiful Mustangs. Is the worn one matching headstock gold or what? Really cool. Thanks- it’s a heavily worn in competition orange that supposedly spent the first 40 years of its life in the good behavior room of a prison. There’s still remnants of the red comp stripe on the side by the strap butt...