I wanted some sort of acoustic travel guitar. The Backpacker, while having a decent neck and playability, was just too thin sounding. Not that every good acoustic has to be a cannon; I have a D-28 copy I made that I always keep in Nashville tuning and it sounds great?in the mix. And that?s always the only thing that counts: end results. Don?t matter how you get there, so long as nobody gets hurt, maimed, or killed along the way.
The other day I learned an interesting way to fatten up a guitar melody run. This comes from Henry Mancini via Walter Becker and simply involves playing a bass line in unison with your guitar line?the most famous example probably being the ?Pink Panther? theme: da DUM da DUMMM, etc.
But back to the travel guitar: I settled on a Taylor Baby. What a cool little axe ? and great for recording, with the short scale and all. Course, I can never leave well enough alone. To cut costs, Taylor skipped the binding, and I felt I should at least rectify it where the top meets sides, so I bought a length of black binding from Stew-Mac. While routing for the binding, I decided to shave the braces a tad more; take another 64th inch or so off the top, and refinish with a thin coat of Nitro gloss (the stock top was semi-gloss and the finish way too thick).
The odd pix are the black plastic binding hanging up and a hunk of mahogany for a future Ernie Ball-type axe.
Pics of progress enclosed.
Rudi
The other day I learned an interesting way to fatten up a guitar melody run. This comes from Henry Mancini via Walter Becker and simply involves playing a bass line in unison with your guitar line?the most famous example probably being the ?Pink Panther? theme: da DUM da DUMMM, etc.
But back to the travel guitar: I settled on a Taylor Baby. What a cool little axe ? and great for recording, with the short scale and all. Course, I can never leave well enough alone. To cut costs, Taylor skipped the binding, and I felt I should at least rectify it where the top meets sides, so I bought a length of black binding from Stew-Mac. While routing for the binding, I decided to shave the braces a tad more; take another 64th inch or so off the top, and refinish with a thin coat of Nitro gloss (the stock top was semi-gloss and the finish way too thick).
The odd pix are the black plastic binding hanging up and a hunk of mahogany for a future Ernie Ball-type axe.
Pics of progress enclosed.
Rudi
