The illusion

[Hackmaster]

With so much time to goof off and make things, I set out to make a new toy for myself.
I started by roughing out a neck pocket in a chunk of cedar.


Then I located where the bridge would be.

And went to town with the router for a vibrato bridge, I hate the term "trem" for a bridge.

Remember that neck pocket? It got fitted with a neck.

So is anyone wondering, why would this Hackmaster clown want to make a rectangle shaped guitar with a vibrato bridge?
Well It was going to be a cigar box guitar. Not really a cigar box guitar, but have the illusion of being a cigar box guitar.
To pull off this facade I needed a donor cigar box. I removed the label and the bottom for reuse.


Now I had to do some creative routing to get a pickup, jack, and volume pot in this thing.
I fit it all together, then a little color and detail was in order. Connect a few wires and...

Remember that cigar box bottom that I harvested from the donor box?
It came in handy to hide all the rear route junk.


If I ever do another one, I'll do a few things differently, but it turned out well for a whim.

 

[JohnnyGoo]

Hell fire thats awesome Hack.Is that a Machinests shim for a neck plate ? Or maybe its from some of the other sacraficed Peavey parts for this beast.Now you need one with a Hummy in it .

 

[eSGEe]

say..... that Trem looks oddly familiar............................

Dude--- once again you MASTERED the HACK!!!!

Im just hoping 1/1000th of your genius rubs off on me..........

 

[Hackmaster]

Hell fire thats awesome Hack.Is that a Machinests shim for a neck plate ? Or maybe its from some of the other sacrafised Peavey parts for this beast.Now you need one with a Hummy in it .

It is a hummy, J.G. A twin blade single coil size.
And it's a harvested and modified Peavey neck plate.

 

[ninjaking67]

That is awesome, Hack!

 

[Hackmaster]

Thanks guys, next one's gonna have a Floyd.
Plenty of cedar left.

 

[syscokid]

This is frick'n awesome...

This is almost as good as Gahr's orange peeling skilz!

 

[Mitch Pearrow SJMP]

Nice job Hack that baby commands a D tuning and a blues shuffle , in a slowed down progression.. :dood:

 

[Don O]

That begs for some Cuban music . Nice work there Hack !

 

[BFT Gibson]

Very cool !!

 

[eSGEe]

Ill refrain from rubbing my junk on this

 

[CabanaBoy]

With so much time to goof off and make things, I set out to make a new toy for myself.
I started by roughing out a neck pocket in a chunk of cedar.
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Then I located where the bridge would be.
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And went to town with the router for a vibrato bridge, I hate the term "trem" for a bridge.
View attachment 41562
Remember that neck pocket? It got fitted with a neck.
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So is anyone wondering, why would this Hackmaster clown want to make a rectangle shaped guitar with a vibrato bridge?
Well It was going to be a cigar box guitar. Not really a cigar box guitar, but have the illusion of being a cigar box guitar.
To pull off this facade I needed a donor cigar box. I removed the label and the bottom for reuse.


Now I had to do some creative routing to get a pickup, jack, and volume pot in this thing.
I fit it all together, then a little color and detail was in order. Connect a few wires and...
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Remember that cigar box bottom that I harvested from the donor box?
It came in handy to hide all the rear route junk.
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If I ever do another one, I'll do a few things differently, but it turned out well for a whim.

Freak'n cool, man...

 

[Hackmaster]

Well friends, I'm sorry to say this illusion was a failure.
Couldn't hold a tune for any length of time.
But with disappointment comes knowledge.
Found the whole bridge had moved almost 1/8" closer to the neck in a couple of days.
String & spring tension had taken its toll. The screws had leaned that far forward in the cedar.
Tried to reinforce and straighten the holes, but the lean had compressed the wood to the point of knowing it was time to abort the mission.
Obviously this hunk of cedar was a poor choice for this project.
Way too soft.
That sucks, because it really sounded good for the few short times it was in tune, and I still have a bunch of it.
For a hardtail project with a Tele like bridge, I think the cedar would be fine, but not for this.

On to the next project...

 

[eSGEe]

I am sad now........................................

 

[Hackmaster]

I am sad now........................................

As am I, sir.
But failures will push me to succeed.
All I'm really out is a set of strings.

 

[ivan H]

With so much time to goof off and make things, I set out to make a new toy for myself.
I started by roughing out a neck pocket in a chunk of cedar.
View attachment 41559
View attachment 41560
Then I located where the bridge would be.
View attachment 41561
And went to town with the router for a vibrato bridge, I hate the term "trem" for a bridge.
View attachment 41562
Remember that neck pocket? It got fitted with a neck.
View attachment 41563
So is anyone wondering, why would this Hackmaster clown want to make a rectangle shaped guitar with a vibrato bridge?
Well It was going to be a cigar box guitar. Not really a cigar box guitar, but have the illusion of being a cigar box guitar.
To pull off this facade I needed a donor cigar box. I removed the label and the bottom for reuse.


Now I had to do some creative routing to get a pickup, jack, and volume pot in this thing.
I fit it all together, then a little color and detail was in order. Connect a few wires and...
View attachment 41567
Remember that cigar box bottom that I harvested from the donor box?
It came in handy to hide all the rear route junk.
View attachment 41568
View attachment 41569
If I ever do another one, I'll do a few things differently, but it turned out well for a whim.

Another fine job Mr Hackmaster, very well done. I think Bo would approve

Cheers
Edit:
I just read of the failure, now I'm sad too. Cheers

 

[JohnnyGoo]

Move along to the Floyd model i say hahahahaha.

 

[Session 5]

Very very sweet Hack, its got that country flavour to it!!!!!!!!!!! Excellent workmanship!!!!!

 

[Hackmaster]

When I first saw this picture I was like wow he's got 3 hands and a double neck....

I did a double neck a while back. But still have only two hands.

Four pairs of strings in octaves with chromatic fretting on the top neck. Three pairs in octaves with diatonic fretting on the bottom neck.
Undersaddle rod piezo pickups. I sold it at a music fair.

Not sure if Junior Brown would approve, but the dog liked it.

 

[Session 5]

NNNNNIICE!!