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| Author: | Ti-Roux [ Sun May 23, 2010 7:25 pm ] |
| Post subject: | uku'caster, tele'lele, le'les paul, flyin'lele and cie |
Hi! I don't know where to post it so, sorry for the double post... I had this idea, with a friend of mine who want to start out lutherie, to create a serie of "mianiatures". In fact, a series of steel stringed electric ukus, with strat, tele, les paul, flying V shapes. Really not expensive to do (recycle some scrap wood or mill ends, etc), fun and educative, and also quite easy to sell at a reasonable price, cause ''it's so cute!''. So, I have some questions here about the electric side of the project. Bridge: What type of bridge should I use? Are there existing bridge for ukus or should I use single saddles, or a fix acoustic type bridge& Tuners: I guess regular schaller mini would do it. Any other suggestions? Pick ups: Are they existing? Or should I make special order or take trancuder or other type of pick ups? Strings: Are they streel strings for ukus? If not, I guess regular guitare strings cutted to needed lenght would do it. Last thing... Truss rod? Neck reinforcement? Nothing? Just more heavier neck (from hardwood, or with laminates) Thanks! Francis |
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| Author: | martinedwards [ Mon May 24, 2010 4:55 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: uku'caster, tele'lele, le'les paul, flyin'lele and cie |
I've made electric mandos using regular tuners and a cut down strat bridge. for pups, 1/2 a split bass pup is perfect for a mando, but a blade type of guitar pup will work for wider spaced strings. as for steel strings on a uke, if it's electric, you have to go steel for the pups to work. I use double acting truss rods form a tiwanese ebay seller |
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| Author: | Ti-Roux [ Mon May 24, 2010 7:22 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: uku'caster, tele'lele, le'les paul, flyin'lele and cie |
I already tought about a bass split pick up, but, a bass range pick up for a ukulele who's quite high... i'm note sure of the quality of the sound. Maybe a soapbar could be ok, but it's really to large... maybe if I put it with an angle... near the neck at bass, and closer to the bridge at trebble. |
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| Author: | martinedwards [ Tue May 25, 2010 8:06 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: uku'caster, tele'lele, le'les paul, flyin'lele and cie |
range? you'd be surprised! the split bass pup is GREAT on my mando strat |
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| Author: | Ti-Roux [ Tue May 25, 2010 8:20 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: uku'caster, tele'lele, le'les paul, flyin'lele and cie |
Wich one you took? |
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| Author: | sttelnoj [ Wed May 26, 2010 4:16 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: uku'caster, tele'lele, le'les paul, flyin'lele and cie |
ive considered doing a similar thing with two string piccolo basses shaped like rubber chickens )) i decided that to keep the cost down and therefore produce a cheap novelty/fun instrument, i would have to start making my own pickups. there are some really cheap homemade cigar boxx pickups on ebay that would definately work. but as i say, they look real simple to make yourself so i reckon thats the way to make this venture pay off. |
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| Author: | Ti-Roux [ Wed May 26, 2010 9:31 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: uku'caster, tele'lele, le'les paul, flyin'lele and cie |
I think i'll consider to make my own pickups... try to find an little motor and a digital counter to make my own winder... |
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| Author: | Brett L Faust [ Sat May 29, 2010 12:03 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: uku'caster, tele'lele, le'les paul, flyin'lele and cie |
If you use P bass pickups you get a humbucking pair for the price of 1 pickup. |
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| Author: | sttelnoj [ Wed Nov 17, 2010 7:10 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: uku'caster, tele'lele, le'les paul, flyin'lele and cie |
Ti-Roux wrote: I think i'll consider to make my own pickups... try to find an little motor and a digital counter to make my own winder... i now have a friend making pickups for me! they sound awesome and he's coming up with some really cool ideas. rails, air coils and stuff. the winder is a hand drill and he made a counter using a magnetic switch wired up to a modded calculator. the switch is wired to the = button. tap +1 into the calc and every turn hits the =. we're getting accurate readings and about 6000 turns, tapped coils and all the benefits of scatterwound pups at half the price of a factory emg. |
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