Crazy, crazy guitar/bass ideas - prototypes

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reverendrally

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#1
As many of you know, I've been on a long journey to build the most innovative (silliest) instruments possible. I've been thinking through this for ages. I believe I've come up with something truly interesting.

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Before I tell you what it is, I want to tease you all a bit and get you thinking. You guys know I prefer bolt on neck joints. What I've been trying to sort out how to do that in such a way that I can seriously compromise the stiffness of the body. I want to do this to have an instrument that isn't just a straight beam, but is also fully electric. @Bruce Johnson has been really challenging me on this.

I also want something very easy to build. As many of you are aware, most of what we play these days is totally over-engineered for what it needs to do. What I'm planning will take me back to some of the truly stupid ideas I started with, but push well beyond it. Let me leave you with this question...

How can you build a bolt on bass without a neck pocket? :rolleyes:
 
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#3
Simple - bolt in from the sides (unless a yoke is a pocket.) If a yoke is a pocket, I have some super-long panel screws so you can bolt it on long-ways from the tail end. Yep, that seems structurally dubious enough. Generic image - my bucket of excess fasteners goes to 11 (inches)

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Or, y'know, just bolt the wings onto the neck, which is bolt-on but happens to be long enough to have the bridge on one end.
 
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Put a radius on both parts, use a turnbuckle bolted on the back of the neck to the back of the body, and have an easy-adjust neck angle - would act just like a hinge with string tension holding it.

(radius cribbed from the this harp design (Limerick) at the head - I've built one, this picture is not the one I built) The radius joint is not glued, it's just held by string tension and a single screw at the base of the upright.
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You could have an extended neck beam with the bridge/pickups/controls encapsulated in it bolted to a body. The body could be quite thin and highly contoured to make it comfortable or run some kind of rim around it (thinking of the Lairat Stega Bass or Yamaha Silent Guitar). I think that would work counter to your over-engineering thoughts I think.
 
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