Hobostubs Ashlock
1749 posts
Mar 25, 2012
2:26 AM
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I made me a 1 sting didley bow using a bass string.and recorded some junk yard jazz,I cant tune the 1 string you just have to play to what it is,So i tried to figure out some guitar and harp that was close,I was going to junk the recording,but decided not to.its ruff but i would like to build a low bo i can tune and play around with it.
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billy_shines
308 posts
Mar 25, 2012
2:44 AM
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cool sounds. i use a J hook and wingnut tuner on my d bow tunes beautifully. i use a broomwire same size as a a guitar A or a bass G. smooth no scritch.
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Hobostubs Ashlock
1750 posts
Mar 25, 2012
2:51 AM
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cool.Hey i want to thank You Billy for the seeds just got them in,Im going to plant a big garden with em;-)Yea i made one just in a couple of minutes with a old CBG I had that had no tuners i tied the bass string down at both ends and put a bottle at the bridge to give it tension,I had a small piozo mic that i slid in the box and just made the recording just trying to firgure out how it sounded,Im going to make another one I think ill try what you said for the tuners,I can see where they would make some cool low end bass sounds exspecially if they tuned up well.
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Hobostubs
Last Edited by on Mar 25, 2012 2:52 AM
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billy_shines
309 posts
Mar 25, 2012
3:09 AM
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ill try to get a pic soon its a slot in a 2x4" with a block on the end with a hole, the J hook goes in the slot and a wingnut tightens it.in europe they have ring bolts its like a screw eye and ring, but the ring will fit over a broomstick another screw eye and L bracket with a wingnut should work but i havent tried it yet. its not that bass tuners are so much its just more work than its worth to put a tuner on a broom or 2x4.
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Hobostubs Ashlock
1751 posts
Mar 25, 2012
3:18 AM
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I need to make me a traditional didley bow with a 2/4 and wire and put a humbucker in the middle,they sound cool from what ive heard,Im thinking about buying some more hardware and try to make me up some cbg's the urge is hitting me again,I want to build a 4 stringer fretted with a humbucker so bad,thats my next build probelly.
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Hobostubs
Last Edited by on Mar 25, 2012 3:55 AM
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billy_shines
311 posts
Mar 25, 2012
6:20 AM
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well a humbucker wasnt traditional. in the 20s and 30s they used headphone crystal elements or a phono stylus pickup. this was then hot wired into a radio or a jukebox. the big thing now is a wall wart coil with a hardrive magnet on top. theres some old popular mechanics plans for one string lapsteels.
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Hobostubs Ashlock
1752 posts
Mar 25, 2012
12:24 PM
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I guess your right on the humbucker ,but it would be cool with the sounds they make with one,Im wanting to firgure out how true lo bow is made,Im wanting to say ive heard some have 2 strings,I was listening to a CD I got off of cigarbox nation,And I hear this cool deep bass sounding homemade instrument on one of the songs,Im not sure whats making that sound but im in search for it;-)
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Hobostubs
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billy_shines
316 posts
Mar 25, 2012
4:21 PM
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i know johnny he sorta gets mad when people copy what he does he lines the box with aluminum foil, he uses two sewing bobbins with magnet wire and two small cylnder neo mags in the holes these are shrink wrapped directly on the sticks and in a series to the jack. hot straight to the amp no volume or tone controls. on his two strings km williams uses a .052 and an unwound .018 G string and tunes C and C semi sharp (an iranian tuning). johnny uses a .048 and a .014. i use a stripped video cable about .028 for a deep bass tone and a .014 stainless steel rope strand that i keep replacing the copper wire lasts forever. i tune DG or DA ir the C C semi sharp deal. you have to get them both in C then raise one until that magic sound happens before hitting C#.
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Hobostubs Ashlock
1756 posts
Mar 25, 2012
4:57 PM
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heck I cant copy if I wanted to( i cant hardly play covers), I just trying to firgure out a cool lo bow sound.;-)
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Hobostubs
Last Edited by on Mar 25, 2012 4:58 PM
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billy_shines
317 posts
Mar 25, 2012
6:08 PM
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well thats how he does it he winds the wire on the bobbin with a sewing machine then hot glues a 1/4" x 1/4" cylnder neo mag inside the hole. the box is lined with aluminum foil.
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Hobostubs Ashlock
1757 posts
Mar 25, 2012
6:49 PM
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Dang you sound like you know what your doing,That and what you told me in the email about what happened over there,sounds like your one of better builders Im a newbie myself;-)I was wondering about instruments that could be made out of the gourd seeds you sent me,but Im having a hard time firguring out what string instruments would work best
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Hobostubs
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billy_shines
318 posts
Mar 25, 2012
7:20 PM
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this is an ektar http://chandrakantha.com/articles/indian_music/ektar.html
the one at the top is south indian and has no skin its a solid gourd with a bamboo through there is no sound hole.
this is a primative tanpura i made based on an old indian painting of mira bai.
http://handmademusic.ning.com/photo/tanpura?context=user
this is 200 ad iraq the christian angel of death playing a south indian ektar
http://handmademusic.ning.com/photo/death-playing-an-ektara?context=user
its one stringed usually played upside down but i hold it this way sometimes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpJdT1-WGWQ
you can make gourd banjos ; http://www.12fret.com/new/Menzies_Jeff_Gourd_banjo.jpg
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Hobostubs Ashlock
1758 posts
Mar 25, 2012
8:02 PM
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those are some cool instruments,
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Hobostubs
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