" What it is, what it shall be & what it will become"

Taking up Quality Space"

Taking up Quality Space"

Sunday, February 28, 2010

Lap-Steel Heaven


 Almost completed Pacetti 6 string Lap-Steel,  24 3/4" scale with basically a two octave/plus reach. Its been an interesting design and build project. I tried to go for an Art-Deco design of my own, I think I'm sort-of there. Comes with a Seymour Duncan , the Cool Rail pkup. Its a humbucker thats trying to be a single coil variety,,,,I have it with a push/pull volume switch that splits the humbucker to a single coil, also there's space left to insert a second pick-up later if needed. The darn thing sounds great, i've been keeping it in a G6th tuning most the time. The primary wood is Mahogany, a solid block thru to the tip of the headstok. Secondary woods are Maple, Koa, Rosewood and the fingerboard is Brazilian Rose
wood.  It has a solid Brass nut and solid Brass
Palm-rest, I made the bridge from a chunk of Aluminum. The Palm rest swivels to reveal the string-thru bridge mount. There's two Koa cover plates, one for the electronic potentiometers etc. and the other for the 1/4 inch jack and also has a small storage area for a possible second steel slide picks etc. The fret markers are inlayed maple... I intend to give this model a name but it hasn't revealed itself .

Still Remaining
      g. pacetti on a beautiful winters day

Sunday, February 21, 2010

Liquid Hide Glue

 I've done a few a few test gluings with the Old Brown Glue and it is working very very well in its strength catagory and working time as well as set time. I've mated several pieces of small stock and later broke them. Of course what we wanted to see was the failure in the wood and not in the glue itself and that was the case. The glue dries to a very hard and translucent state exactly the same as the Hot Hide glue variety.
  
 The photos show post intensional joint failure with the released adjacent wood fibers.
 Old Brown Glue definitely requires a full 24 hours for a positive set. This glue might change my life.......

Model/Classic 0 in RoseWood

Model/Classic 0 in RoseWood
three piece bk & sound port

Bridges

Bridges
A batch of various Bridges with Mammoth Ivory

E-Chena Uke (Electric)

E-Chena Uke      (Electric)

Recent Tenor Ukulele/sound Port

Recent Tenor Ukulele/sound Port
Model Chena Uke

Rosewood & Myrtlewood/Square neck Resophonic

Rosewood & Myrtlewood/Square neck Resophonic
Resonator lap-slide guit