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Topic: Keyless Travel Guitar, Aluminum |
W. Johnson
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Posted 27 Sep 2017 3:30 pm |
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(Changed title from 'Headless Travel Guitar', to 'Keyless Travel Guitar'. Hence, a few comments below about 'headless'. 
Keyless steel guitar, 'JR Travel Steel', aluminum, 24" scale, overall length is 26", width is 7" thickness is 1", weight is just over 8 pounds. Pickup handmade by me, 15K (1.5 oz of 43 gauge wire). Pedal steel fingers, 1.5" long, for tuning strings. Bottom has felt material on it. It is Leopard pattern print.
Wayne
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Roger Shackelton
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Posted 29 Sep 2017 3:50 am
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WAYNE!!!!
yikes!!!!!! HEADLESS 
I believe the term should be KEYLESS, It sounds more friendly.
Roger |
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W. Johnson
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Oregon, USA
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Posted 29 Sep 2017 7:16 am
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| Roger Shackelton wrote: |
WAYNE!!!!
yikes!!!!!! HEADLESS
I believe the term should be KEYLESS, It sounds more friendly.
Roger |
Uh, okay. How about "Off with their heads!"
Wayne
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Stephen Abruzzo
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Philly, PA
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Posted 29 Sep 2017 7:52 am
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Cool looking steel. Beautiful work.
As for the name of this style of your steel......the "Marie Antoinette". 
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W. Johnson
From:
Oregon, USA
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Posted 29 Sep 2017 8:03 am
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| Stephen Abruzzo wrote: |
Cool looking steel. Beautiful work.
As for the name of this style of your steel......the "Marie Antoinette". |
My customer who had me build this guitar for him, requested of me that I name it, 'JR Travel Steel'. His initials are JR. When we began the project, he showed me a Chinese travel guitar, has wheels on the tail end, tuners tucked up underneath and coming out on the top. Wanted to know if I could make such a thing from aluminum. I felt we should explore a different way of doing this, as the Chinese version required a body thickness of 1 1/2 or 1 3/4, and the cost of the aluminum and the amount of machining would be too much. After going back and forth in emails with quite a number of ideas, we decided on this design.
Because of the pinkish felt bottom, I like the name 'Pink Panther'. (Pink Panther music playing in the background.) Anyway, the official name of this guitar is 'JR Travel Steel'.
Wayne
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Steven Pearce
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Port Orchard Washington, USA
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Posted 1 Oct 2017 8:51 am Keyless Beauty
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Wayne,
The instruments you create are beautiful. Will the keyless model be
in the same price area as your others? Thanks, and have a good day.
Steve Pearce
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