MIMF

I'm in.
I am happy to pay postage coasts as I live outside the US.

John

Congrats.

No pics?

Check out http://stringedinstrumentdatabase.comoj.com/ it may have the name of it.

or http://www.atlasofpluckedinstruments.co ... htm#mexico it may be a vihuela

John

And me please

I have made a guitar into a bass type thing using nylon line

http://dennishavlena.com/doodle-b.htm

gives info on making a doodle bass - a bit of fun

Very cool. Are you going to post a movie clip to show us how it sounds?

I go to my local dump shop and pick up old and damaged guitars for 5-10 dollars. Get machine heads, fret wire etc for cheap.

John

Hi Mark. There is a number of fret calculators available on line that will give you the correct measurements for the frets.
for example
http://tpn.lowtech.org/tinjola.php
http://www.stewmac.com/freeinfo/Frettin ... tcalc.html

I would suggest you use metric as it is so much easier to measure.

John

Looks very similar doesn't it. I liked the website, I never knew there were so many variations on a guitar.

moon guitar - I like it

Yes please

yes please


John

Number 2 for me
With luck I will finish the instrument before the draw

John

Yes please

John

Thanks for all the comments. After reading and thinking about all the answers, my new best guess is a domra built by a Chinese luthier, hence the raised frets. You can get guitars with the raised frets as well, so the hybrids do exist. If the domra and balalaika were widespread through Russia, then ...

As requested
The quality is not too good, but if you need better detail, I can take some more tomorrow in the daylight.
Thanks

John

Thanks everyone for their input. The carving of the bat to me seems a bit more European rather than Asian, but the raised frets point in a different direction. I will try measuring the frets over the next few days to see what sort of scale it is.

John

Greetings to all. I have just acquired a new instrument that i am not sure what it is. It is about 1 m high (3 to 3 1/2 foot) tall, and has 3 strings with friction pegs (if it had any). The frets are quite raised as well (all two that are left :shock:). The headpiece is a carved bat, and there is a ...