My new guitar day! Yuri Landman's White Eagle

[kosta]

Whoa.

[jrmy]

I was thinking about adapting the White Eagle to a shortscale bass form, I think it's pretty doable^^

I'd be very interested in hearing how this works. Actually, I've got a longscale neck blank and a body blank laying around... maybe a longscale version? Although I wonder if the body would have to be prohibitively long for that. Hmmmmmm...

[kosta]

The guitar body is def long.

[autumnautist]

I hope this makes any sense. I'd have trouble explaining it in german so i can only guess how little sense it makes in english.

Yes it makes sense. Or at least my slow brain detects a perfect sense on your words, even without grasping the full content... c'om brain wake up!

thanks!

act. I read it again, clear as water!!

[autumnautist]

My take on the White eagle idea (just a prototype): A0







Its a semi-hollow body "jazzeagle". Its made from a cheap stratocaster I had laying around... so image the definitive model with jazzmaster pickups and a jaguar pickup behind the bridge. And I have to do a better stop-tail :P...
Its "intonated" the best I could with a screw...
But sounds ok!

[Chankgeez]

^^^ cool ^^^

[autumnautist]

thanks!

[oldangelmidnight]

My take on the White eagle idea (just a prototype): A0



Its a semi-hollow body "jazzeagle". Its made from a cheap stratocaster I had laying around... so image the definitive model with jazzmaster pickups and a jaguar pickup behind the bridge. And I have to do a better stop-tail :P...
Its "intonated" the best I could with a screw...
But sounds ok!

That looks really lovely.
What kind of sounds are you getting from the behind-the-bridge pickup?

[autumnautist]

http://soundcloud.com/jorge-sino/guitar-a0

not the best soundclip, works better with overdrive

[Toonster]

Wow that looks awesome!

And I guess If I make a bass version it will be a shortscale, or else the strings might be to short for the third bridge thing..

Some string sets are even to short for the white eagle..

[autumnautist]

You could always use extra long strings like the ampeg aeb-1 strings...

http://www.xstrange.com/strings.html

[the_carl]

Circle K also makes some super long strings (like 40" scale) and would probably be able to hook you up with whatever kind of set you'd need. http://circlekstrings.com/store/index.html

This looks like a pretty awesome summer project, actually...

[jfuzz]

That is just as cool as it gets! I have never seen anything like it!

[Toonster]

Thanks for the info on long strings! Maybe a long scale, hmmm dilemma, I'll see what I will do in the summer holidays..

[kosta]

So f'n cool AutumnAutist!!! Has Yuri seen this????