26/10/11–How to build a Cricket Bat Guitar

The Critar

Start with a very old Cricket Bat. This is an original Nottingham made Gunn & Moore Cricket bat from 1970

 

The parts from a broken vintage acoustic guitar

 

The Pizzo bridge and pre-amp module

General layout

Electric pickup location, will it fit!

Neck pocket location

Marking out

Amputation

Routing out the neck pocket

Perfect Fit

Fitting the bridge

Bridge Recess

Pre-amp cavity

Pre-amp fitted

Pre-amp pocket

Jack hole

Humbucker cavity

 

gluing on the bridge

 

The finished “instrument”

Through body stringing, for added sustain!

Control block

Jack Pin

Pizzo Bridge and blend control between magnetic pickup and pizzo.

Mag Pickup, a Dimaziro Super Distortion

 

The case

How it started

26/10/11–My song has made it….

 

to the official chart page at http://www.opensounds.co.uk/.

At time of writing its at number 7 with 136 plays, although the chart page has not been updated.

22&23/10/11 Trip to Blackpool

We only decided to go a couple of weeks ago.

The Journey there

Travelodge room. Location Great, Room below average. (No remote for telly, its been nicked, toilet smelt, no milk)



He did not nick my food!
Artistic licenseIt was windy!The Comedy Carpet
The Tower
Crap food!




Comedy Carpet, from above!
Kel on the Glass Floor



The fantastic Tower Ballroom
The Winter Gardens (No garden!!!)
The dome roof in the Winter Garden
Kel & I messing about.

The Journey Back