Inksplosive AL
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I have a Kona Blaster soprano. Never heard of them being built from spare parts but there are variations such as bridge choice and different pickups used. Perhaps the 30.06 cartridge being used as a bridge or various pickups being used over the years has given this impression.
My KB is a soprano model shaped like a canned ham white psychedelic 3D sticker front with the carpet back. A 30.06 cartridge bridge with a single coil stratocaster guitar pickup instead of the 4 pole bass pickup and adjustable bridge shown in the one pictured above.
The lighter a set of steel guitar strings the thinner they are. A rule from body piercing is the thinner the wire the more of a cutting action it has on the strings. Having played some electric and acoustic guitar in the past you will build up calluses on your left or fretting hand. Some get along fine playing with fingers on steel strings others suggest and use aLaska picks.
Honestly I dont play it much, either the tension using light guitar strings is higher than my old Warlock using 10's and every other ukulele I own or its been so long since I had any calluses that it just feels this way. After playing a nylon stringed uke with a piezo the steel stringed magnetic pickup uke sounds dead and choked to my ear. The only benefit I could see is the presets on my RP360 made for guitar did not need any tweaking to sound passable.
The KonaBlaster needed a good shielding with foil tape as well to stop interference. I have to look around here I remember buying a hotter dual rail humbucker pickup to swap in but lost interest between the steel strings and the compressed sound. The pickup might just wake up the sound a bit.
Maybe I dont play enough nylon to build up my fingertips maybe its just a soprano thing.
~peace~
My KB is a soprano model shaped like a canned ham white psychedelic 3D sticker front with the carpet back. A 30.06 cartridge bridge with a single coil stratocaster guitar pickup instead of the 4 pole bass pickup and adjustable bridge shown in the one pictured above.
The lighter a set of steel guitar strings the thinner they are. A rule from body piercing is the thinner the wire the more of a cutting action it has on the strings. Having played some electric and acoustic guitar in the past you will build up calluses on your left or fretting hand. Some get along fine playing with fingers on steel strings others suggest and use aLaska picks.
Honestly I dont play it much, either the tension using light guitar strings is higher than my old Warlock using 10's and every other ukulele I own or its been so long since I had any calluses that it just feels this way. After playing a nylon stringed uke with a piezo the steel stringed magnetic pickup uke sounds dead and choked to my ear. The only benefit I could see is the presets on my RP360 made for guitar did not need any tweaking to sound passable.
The KonaBlaster needed a good shielding with foil tape as well to stop interference. I have to look around here I remember buying a hotter dual rail humbucker pickup to swap in but lost interest between the steel strings and the compressed sound. The pickup might just wake up the sound a bit.
Maybe I dont play enough nylon to build up my fingertips maybe its just a soprano thing.
~peace~