Simon K.Bradley
La Grande medium corona Cigar Box Mandolin: 'Smoking Kills'
The Instruments of Art: Electro-Acoustic Mandolin
I made this using bits from a busted up scrap mando, driftwood from the recent high tides at Upnor & reclaimed tuning pegs from a couple of electric guitars.
The jubilee clip above the net has a driftwood scrap set into it to prevent any fret buzz by pushing the strings down below the height of the nut.
The sound holes are set with strainers from a recycled tea infuser (hence the mug of tea in a couple of the photo's).
Fitted with a large piezo in the soundboard to a 1/4 inch mono jack via a volume control knob: This little wonder sounds great - especially with a little bit of fuzz through an old Pignose battery amp.
The marker pen graphics of the back of the mando relate to being trapped in a bottle tumbling through the world struggling to break out and be heard.
A couple of the tuning pegs are 'skull' machine heads, coupled with use of the cigar box it points to the aggression of lung cancer.
Cancer research UK site advises that around 42000 people were diagnosed with lung cancer in the uk in 2010, that's around 115 people every day.
La Grande medium corona Cigar Box Mandolin: 'Smoking Kills'
The Instruments of Art: Electro-Acoustic Mandolin
I made this using bits from a busted up scrap mando, driftwood from the recent high tides at Upnor & reclaimed tuning pegs from a couple of electric guitars.
The jubilee clip above the net has a driftwood scrap set into it to prevent any fret buzz by pushing the strings down below the height of the nut.
The sound holes are set with strainers from a recycled tea infuser (hence the mug of tea in a couple of the photo's).
Fitted with a large piezo in the soundboard to a 1/4 inch mono jack via a volume control knob: This little wonder sounds great - especially with a little bit of fuzz through an old Pignose battery amp.
The marker pen graphics of the back of the mando relate to being trapped in a bottle tumbling through the world struggling to break out and be heard.
A couple of the tuning pegs are 'skull' machine heads, coupled with use of the cigar box it points to the aggression of lung cancer.
Cancer research UK site advises that around 42000 people were diagnosed with lung cancer in the uk in 2010, that's around 115 people every day.