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Pay a visit to Croydon Camera House, the ideal workplace for a camera nut like me! |
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Whilst in Winchester UK, I was drawn to the wonderful sound of a guitar unlike any other........unfortunately I wasn't able to find out what it
was until recently. Drawn to the sound of a ten string electric guitar from earlier encounters, I decided to build such an instrument. Below is the result. I needed to fabricate a suitable bridge assembly
for this beast, so after discovering a solid brass section at the local scrap yard, the rest was easy! The actual piece of timber used to make this instrument is commonly used in Australia as a door
step. An extremely stable all weather timber, Merbau is very resilient. Sawing it in half and mounting back to back in a lathe, I arrived at two sculptured bodies.....one a ten string and the other
bound for twelve strings and gold hardware? Frets are cut from 3mm stainless with the body oiled and hand rubbed. I fabricated a suitably shaped pick up box from aluminium, then had it powder coated along with
several camera parts. Pickups are Jacksons. The sustain and sound of this machine is awesome......................... |
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1996 saw my attempt at a 16th Century guitar.......made entirely from sketches, it features a neck from timber salvaged from a wrecked early 1900`s piano, some violin tuners and a bridge and nut I made of sun dried and bleached bone, this wonderful little instrument was a joy to make. With eleven strings it can be a devil to tune, however its 400mm scale length gives a big voice. |
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Meet the famous Australian based camera collector who sold me the first Polaroid 120 that eventually gave birth to the 'Razzle 4x5' way back in 2000.....Click here......... |
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For all expert camera repairs, contact my friend Yoshi... He is Canon trained and can offer repairs to both digital and film cameras... |
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To visit 'The Gordon Setter Club of Victoria inc' website please click here....... |
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