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Round Tenor Guitar Project
Neck- Rim
1920's Epiphone "Mayfair" Tenor Banjo
11" rim
It will be as Epiphone would call it.
"Electric Banjo"
Schaller Mini tuners
2.9mm frets
Side markers
MOP nut
1/8" Birch ply - Top and Back
This will be in the style of other round guitars from the past.
Round tenor guitars were made in a transitionary period from banjo to guitar.
There are versions online and I have files that show pics of them.
They appear all of the way up until the late 1960's
Example - Harmony "Electro"
1920's Epiphone "Mayfair" Tenor Banjo
11" rim
It will be as Epiphone would call it.
"Electric Banjo"
Schaller Mini tuners
2.9mm frets
Side markers
MOP nut
1/8" Birch ply - Top and Back
This will be in the style of other round guitars from the past.
Round tenor guitars were made in a transitionary period from banjo to guitar.
There are versions online and I have files that show pics of them.
They appear all of the way up until the late 1960's
Example - Harmony "Electro"
My plan (Which changes as I go along) is to have no penetrations of the top, and have a "below the soundboard" pickup and knobs (if any) on the side of the rim with the input jack.
In other words, like the head of a banjo.
The back will be fixed, but the top and its trim ring ill be one piece/removable.
That gives it an ability to just slip off, just as it did when it was the banjo's bearing edge.
Let's get started
In other words, like the head of a banjo.
The back will be fixed, but the top and its trim ring ill be one piece/removable.
That gives it an ability to just slip off, just as it did when it was the banjo's bearing edge.
Let's get started
The basic framework.
Nice pegs, they will stay.
I will upgrade it to have a logo.
Next it will get clear coated.
Flat sanding shows low area.
Added a little tint to the green.
Adding filler wood where flange used to be.
I left a lip so t hat the back can recess into it.
Finish is near complete/
The back, in its recess.
Back to fretting.
MOP nut.
I made an Epi style lag plate.
Stripped.
Ready to glue on.
I will fret with wide wire-2.9mm.
This is where the player played the most.
Adding Epi-sized side markers.
Now the other side.
Cutting the birch ply top.
Perfect fit., It will be fixed to the trim ring.
All of the insides will be black.
All dressed, fingerboard oiled.
White top, Dark brown sides, Burst back.
Electrics
I will start with things I have laying around here to see if I can make anything work right.
Like I said, I want an "under the top" pickup, with no penetrations through the soundboard.
So I started with this "Hockey Puck", and then changed it out due to too many overtones and for now, I have it on this high end pickup that is made for a sound hole installation, but being as this is basically a prototype to see if I want to start making round TG's again.
I will start with things I have laying around here to see if I can make anything work right.
Like I said, I want an "under the top" pickup, with no penetrations through the soundboard.
So I started with this "Hockey Puck", and then changed it out due to too many overtones and for now, I have it on this high end pickup that is made for a sound hole installation, but being as this is basically a prototype to see if I want to start making round TG's again.
This was the Puck. Too sensitve.
Vega style armrest works well.
Side mount for the input jack.
Trying out the sound hole style, set on foam.
Let's plug it in.
Tone is good and clear now with the little Epiphone practice amp that I bought to go along with it. I do not hear the hums now.
FINAL PICS
Thanks for looking and sharing,
VM
VM