By Mike Orr
The ultimate guide to making foot-stompin' good instruments will inspire you to turn ordinary stuff like cigar boxes, cookie tins and hubcaps into cool "roots-simple" instruments. Colorfully photo-illustrated step-by-step building projects, helpful fret placement patterns and simple wiring diagrams give you a great start. 160 pages, softcover.
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Handmade Music Factory shows you how to make low-tech guitars from recycled parts. They're simple, inexpensive, and as much fun to make as they are to play! There's no end to the funky creativity you can add.
"Get back to music's primal roots…there's nothing else that compares to playing a simple guitar you build with your own hands." —Shane Speal, Cigar Box Nation
"You really can make an instrument out of just about anything!" —Mike Orr
Contents in brief:
Foreword by the Robert Johnson Blues Foundation
Building a washtub bass
Making a 1-string diddley bow
Electrified stomp box and washboard
Building a 3-string cigar box slide guitar
Cookie tin guitar
4-string tenor guitar
Ironing board lap steel guitar
Tips on piezo-wiring your homemade instrument
Making a simple amp from a tape deck
Patterns for fret scales and headstocks
Washtub bass patterns
Photo galleries:
License plate guitar
Bedpan guitars
Hubcap banjo
Cigar box guitars, bass and uke
Cookie tin guitar
Turpentine can guitar
Handmade instrument contest winners
Build your own custom pickups
In this issue:
Erick Coleman needed a pickup like a good old Gibson P-90, but sized to fit a 3-string cigar box guitar! Here’s how he built it, and how you can build yourself a custom pickup for any instrument.
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