Tele Sitar whimsy project (ROB OG BODY CONTENT)

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Tue Aug 31, 2010 5:33 pm

I've been working on a sitar project for absolute cheaps as possible so thought I'd best start a thread and document this shit for interested folks. Got a ROB OG tele body with some history to work with and a cheap tele neck from a fellow shortscaler. I'll go into details and shots of the progress soon but initially here are some crappy designs, some inspirations and some pics that I found afterwards of similar themed projects.

It won't be bright red but more a metallic crimson with a dano vibe and I'm not going to bother with sympathetic strings right now. I ideally would like a sustainer in the neck for weird sitar ambience but can't justify the cost. I may put that Dano tape stuff round the edges!

Sorry about all the unspoilered pics but this is my thread (and I'm an asshoel) and really you should have broadband and something a little bit more than a ZX Spectrum by now. SPOILERED OR FRAN BREAK ME!

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Zack · Post by **Zack** » Thu Sep 02, 2010 1:19 am

sounds great dude. lightrailcoyote made a telemaster with a gotoh sitar bridge, i'll try to find the youtube of it.

edit: here's the thread about it.
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Addam · Post by **Addam** » Thu Sep 02, 2010 6:57 pm

My vote is number 3
4 is a very close second

hotrodperlmutter · Post by **hotrodperlmutter** » Thu Sep 02, 2010 8:13 pm

love #1.

what a great idea. do you already have the bridge and all them bits?

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Fri Sep 03, 2010 7:45 am

Goots - funnily enough that video inspired me to do a deep scalloped neck. Last christmas it snowed like buggary herer and I basicly got 3 days off work because of it so spent the whole time hand scalloping a chepo neck. Pics bomb soon.

Cheers for the votes guys - The body is a little longer and non standard tele so having cut out pickguard shapes the balancing is a bit different and I'm not convinced a couple of my original designs will sit right with it - got photos for further votes when I get em uploaded.

HotRod - I've got a set of Rockinger tele sitar bridge saddles for this -

I'm unlikely to do the whole sympathetic strings thing as I don't really want to spend any more cash on this project - plus I've heard they don't do much more than add natural reverb on this kind of configuration. You have an el;ectric sitar ye? How do you find the symp strings work on that? On real sitars where they are under the strings and run from the same bridge so they resonate much louder and droney or so I've read....

As I say i kinda evisioned having a sustainer so you could be holding a bass note whilst doing melodies over the top to get a similar trippy vibe but cost stops me.