Need design help
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Personally I wouldn't. If the instrument isn't going to sound like a traditional ukulele why try to make it look like one? I can't see that putting a rosette around it would look like anything other than a square peg in a round 'hole'.
I'd just try to keep it as simple and as elegant as I could.
I'd just try to keep it as simple and as elegant as I could.
Rick Turner
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Take a look at my Model 1 electric guitars...
Been there, done that, still do it...
Been there, done that, still do it...
thistle3585
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Thanks Rick. I noticed on Ed Roman's site that there is a grouping of several instruments and the pickups are at different angles. Is that pickup "disc" adjustable? Is the disc supposed to imitate a sound hole or does it serve a greater function? I always liked the body design on that guitar. Very nice work.
Rick Turner
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Uggh, did you have to mention Ed Roman?
The pickup disc can be turned, and therefore it is functional, though I was also very conscious of it being an homage to a sound hole. The guitar shape was borrowed from an early 19th century guitar, probably from the Stauffer workshop. I added the cutaway. I love making subtle...and not so subtle visual references to the history of our craft.
The pickup disc can be turned, and therefore it is functional, though I was also very conscious of it being an homage to a sound hole. The guitar shape was borrowed from an early 19th century guitar, probably from the Stauffer workshop. I added the cutaway. I love making subtle...and not so subtle visual references to the history of our craft.
thistle3585
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Sorry about that but it is the number one search engine result. 
Regardless, it is a very fine looking instrument.
Regardless, it is a very fine looking instrument.i used to own a slotted head all rosewood model 1 guitar and was the most comfortable and fun to play guitar. It had a cedar core and the look was outrageous. Has to be my favorite guitar i owned, would love to have a ukulele version of it!
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