To Fret or not to Fret, that is the question - No. 8 has arrived!

Due to popular demand (I think it was my son) I've added (working - at least you could call them that) frets to Junkyard Guitar No. 8! No they're not silver nickel polished frets from Stuart MacDonalds (I'm saving that for next year) but just plain finishing nails, but it's just as much work as the real thing and works just fine. Now you have the best of both worlds - slide pure or notes by the numbers! As you can see from the pictures I stopped at the 20th fret. I could have gone for 24 but it would have just been for the optics - at best the slide is on the pinky and you're and not going get any fingers working up there anyway and with the slide it's millimeter work so play it by ear!
As always I've added my home-made and hand wound AlNiCo custom pickup (3,200 Ohms for those interested) and a Fender volume knob mounted on top for the violin-effect fanatics among you. What more could you want in a Cigar Box guitar? As always they're for sale so make an offer!
I hope you enjoy reading my Posts and I'd sure like to hear your comments so drop me a line!
Your,
american George
P.S. If you want to take a better look at all my Junkyard guitars, visit my Picasa Web Album @ http://picasaweb.google.de/ggborrelli/JunkyardGuitars

Is it Bo Diddley or Diddley-bow No. 6 & 7 just finished!

Well the first attempt on eBay with my Junkyard guitars wasn't as promising as I had thought, but I was still busy this week and turned out two new Junkyards.

Junkyard No. 6. is a cover version of No. 3 with some changes: shorter (57 cm) scale, a diagonal Pickup position and a sheet metal bridge - a little Tele touch! I added my "Money for nothin'" tuner buttons for good looks!

Junkyard No. 7 is a cute little Diddley-Bow with clean European design. The hand wound alnico pickup goes directly to the output jack. I'm pretty proud of the tuner/nut solution, it's both functional and cheap - very DIY-ish!

I've added all the new pictures in my slide show (previous posting) or you can go directly to my Picasa album to get a better look: http://picasaweb.google.de/ggborrelli/JunkyardGuitars

I hope you enjoy having a look and I'm looking forward to be hearing from you soon!
Your
american George

P.S.: If you find something you like, remember everything is for sale - make an offer. If you want something special drop me a line.

Finally some sound.... not great but (if you turn it up) loud!

I've finally managed to add some music (noise?) using Studio 9 (such a pain!) to animate my pictures. Some may not find it particularly virtuous, so I've kept it short to spare those with critical hearing. Mostly your hearing just Junkyard Guitars No. 2, (Lapsteel) and No. 3 (trusty 3-String Cigar-box)
If you have some tips (musically or otherwise) feel free to offer them.....
hope to be hearing from you soon,
american George

A Thousand pictures (hope it works) are better than a million words?

Well it's worth a try. If it works you will be able to start the official american George Junkyard guitar slide show (courtesy of Google - I thought I'd just add that since it's for free!) Now if I could just get my music to work....
Hope you like it!