Well, this guitar isn't able to compare to a real Synchromatic, but my project turned out better then I thought it would, so I decided to share it with you. Well, this is the result:
About two months ago I found this Guitar in the trash.
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As you can see it's nothing special, a normal classical guitar, but it had a big crack on the backside, and it was obvious that it needed a new one. I decided to take it with me, not knowing what I was going to do to it.
I don't know a lot about guitar repairing, so I probably did some things you might want to kill me for, but yeah it had died otherwise.....
At first I took down the backside and smoothed the edges with some sanding paper. I decided that I didn't need another classical guitar (I don't like Nylon strings that much) and decided to have some fun with it, so I cut out some F-Holes, and made a plug for the round soundhole. I also cut off the bridge (with a saw) I used a lot of wood-filler...
Yeah, then I found a cool Retro Schaller Pickup on a flea-market, so my project was going to be electrical. But not wanting to cut a hole into my soundhole plug, I just cut off the end of the fretboard, so I had some space I could mount the pickup on.
Then I just build a string holder (couldn't use a normal one because it had to be shorter to fit the scale length of the classical guitar) and strung it up.
Just thought this might be interesting for some of you, or maybe you just want to have a laugh on me.
Anyway, although it's not playing relaxed I think the sound coming out of the amp is actually usefull for oldschool Swing Sounds, if you tell me how to upload soundfiles without having to register somwhere I'll post them on here.
Paul
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Subject: Synchromatic on a Budget 
Mon Oct 25, 2010 1:43 pm
