Everyday Electronics electric guitar

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

Did anyone here ever make one of these, or know someone who did? Does
anyone else even remember it? Just curious.

[gareth]

"Etaoin Shrdlu" <n...@way.com> wrote in message
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> Did anyone here ever make one of these, or know someone who did? Does
> anyone else even remember it? Just curious.

Do you mean the electric guitar in Practical Electronics (merged into
Everyday Electronics)
published in the late 1960s?

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

I'd have thought it was early 70's, but maybe it's the same thing.
Weird how you'd actually consider building your own guitar in those
days. Nowadays, you'd just buy one.

[Graham.]

On Wed, 24 Jun 2015 21:08:57 +0100, Etaoin Shrdlu <n...@way.com> wrote:

>Did anyone here ever make one of these, or know someone who did? Does
>anyone else even remember it? Just curious.

Does anyone remember the Glissandovibe, I think it was a bit like a
Theromin but more tangable IYSWIM. Just a name that stuck in my
memory.

Someone remembers it,
http://www.chatzones.co.uk/discus/messages/12743/10056.html?1275246978

Talk about thread drift though!

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[Bod]

On 24/06/2015 21:08, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
> Did anyone here ever make one of these, or know someone who did? Does
> anyone else even remember it? Just curious.
>

I made an electric guitar back then, but I can't remember which magazine
I copied it from. I made mine in a Flying V shape.
If I remember correctly they gave you the configuration for the
fretboard and you made your own shape. It actually played in tune :-)
When we moved I left it in the the loft where we moved from.
It was interesting to make.

[Bod]

I already had guitars, it was just interesting to actually make one.

[Brian-Gaff]

Vague recollection about such a beast, was it in the 70s?
Brian

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[Brian-Gaff]

Back in the 60s Wireless World had an organ as I recall, all valves.
I also recall Bryan Cox talking about a project he built for a synthesiser
when they first became popular, for his band, so musical instruments were
most certainly made back in those days.

Diy Violin anyone :-
Brian)

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[Bod]

On 25/06/2015 07:47, Brian-Gaff wrote:
> Vague recollection about such a beast, was it in the 70s?
> Brian
>

Yes, it was in the 70s.

[gareth]

"Brian-Gaff" <bri...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Back in the 60s Wireless World had an organ as I recall, all valves.

Was that the one that had the key contacts as bits of wire dipping into
thimbles
of anti-freeze such that the slow electrolytic build up of keying current
circumvented any key clicks?

[Bod]

My father in law built an organ from one of those mags back in the early
70s(I think), it played and sounded surprisingly
well.

[mark.b...@gmail.com]

On Wednesday, 24 June 2015 22:41:26 UTC+1, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
> gareth wrote:
> > "Etaoin Shrdlu" <n...@way.com> wrote in message
> > news:G66dnaZLl8XEkxbI...@eclipse.net.uk...
> >> Did anyone here ever make one of these, or know someone who did? Does
> >> anyone else even remember it? Just curious.

...

> Weird how you'd actually consider building your own guitar in those
> days. Nowadays, you'd just buy one.

People still do, though mostly I suspect it's an assembly job - the Fender
"something"-casters with bolt-on necks opened the door for easy assembly of
"bitsacaster" guitars.

[Peter Parry]

Practical Electronics January 1965, used Eclipse button magnets with
coils wound on them as the pickups.

https://ia700809.us.archive.org/20/items/PracticalElectronics1965January/PracticalElectronics1965Jan.pdf

<http://www.eclipsemagnetics.com/row/product-range/magnetic-tools-standard-magnets/e821-alnico-button-magnets.html>


There was a later one in the mid 70's, that can be found at


http://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/attachment.php?s=21d7c4c9a5ee1269370700eeb799fa7d&attachmentid=63204&d=1330286995
http://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/attachment.php?s=21d7c4c9a5ee1269370700eeb799fa7d&attachmentid=63205&d=1330286995
http://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/attachment.php?s=21d7c4c9a5ee1269370700eeb799fa7d&attachmentid=63206&d=1330287221
http://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/attachment.php?s=21d7c4c9a5ee1269370700eeb799fa7d&attachmentid=63207&d=1330287221

[Ronnie]

To add to that;
I was very surprised that the intonation was correct because I made lots
of their projects and there was nearly always some sort mistake that
made you have to buy the next month's edition to find out the
corrections. A clever ploy to encourage you to buy the next months
edition whether you intended to or not. :-)

[Dave Liquorice]

On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 08:35:00 +0100, Bod wrote:

> My father in law built an organ from one of those mags back in the early
> 70s(I think), it played and sounded surprisingly well.

I built one about '75 '76, possibly from Everyday Electronics but
more likely Practical Wireless.

Proper keyboard and gold wire based keyboard switches. Trouble is it
used MOS divider chips which didn't have static protection and
generating all notes mathematically isn't musically correct, So even
though it worked quite it wasn't very musical.

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[Etaoin Shrdlu]

I remember one of the mags did a sort of stylophone thing where the
keypad was etched into copper clad board, with the help of those
etch-resist pens. Quite clever, I thought.

[Brian-Gaff]

Wow what a link that was.

Are these pdfs just pictures of the pages? If so I won't b bother looking.

Brian

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[bm]

"Bod" <bodr...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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Yea, you measure the length of the string between bridge and nut, halve it,
then the gap between frets gets progressively larger towards the nut by the
twelfth root of 2. So you cheat and use a CNC miller :D

[Ronnie]

Aye.

[tony sayer]

In article <k9jmoa9g6r2jsk8m7...@4ax.com>, Graham.
<m...@privicy.net> scribeth thus

Drift further!...


Anyone heard of the Ondes Martenot?, devised in 1928 and influenced by
the theremin a short demo here,


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0aflcF0-ys

and it makes an appearance in Olivier Messiaen's Mighty Turangalîla-
Symphonie which is being performed at the Proms this year and is now
sold out.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PjyCpRKDrk

Enjoy;)...
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[Peter Parry]

On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 17:32:53 +0100, "Brian-Gaff"
<bri...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

>Are these pdfs just pictures of the pages? If so I won't bother looking.

They look as if they are pictorial images of the original pages in pdf
format.

[whisky-dave]

What were you expecting an interactive guide with 3D / HD multi-media files ?

[Peter Parry]

On Fri, 26 Jun 2015 03:03:40 -0700 (PDT), whisky-dave
<whisk...@gmail.com> wrote:

>What were you expecting an interactive guide with 3D / HD multi-media files ?

More probably something which will work with a text to speech program.
text based PDF's will, ones where the pdf is just a photograph or
scanned image of a page turned into a pdf document won't.

3D and multi media are not a lot of use to people with no sight.

[whisky-dave]

Sorry but I didn't know that was the case. I'm not sure that the original
EE or PE mags would have been much use either would they ?. I did look through some copies or such mags I have here mostly from the 80s & 90s. Years ago one of my students was working on a braille computer 'display' nothoing came of it. I guess text to speech was more useful.

[Peter Parry]

On Fri, 26 Jun 2015 07:00:50 -0700 (PDT), whisky-dave
<whisk...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm not sure that the original
>EE or PE mags would have been much use either would they ?. I did look through some copies or such mags I have
> here mostly from the 80s & 90s. Years ago one of my students was working on a braille computer 'display'
> nothoing came of it. I guess text to speech was more useful.

Braille has been in decline for some time. Using it is a skill which
takes constant practice and with the decline of specialist schools for
blind students most blind children are either not being taught Braille
or don't regularly use it. Few people who lose their sight as adults
ever did learn Braille.

Text to speech has certainly had a large part to play in this decline
- but if it was all that was needed why teach anyone to write? Many
believe Braille is analogous to reading and writing and necessary for
literacy.

Amongst blind people within the UK Braille is used by about 1%. As a
medium for reading novels it is hard work, a paperback novel in
Braille would be the size of half a dozen large heavy encyclopedias.

For labeling things it is far more useful. Having custard on your
beans because someone moved tins around on a shelf ceases to be
amusing quite quickly. I'm currently using a 3D printer to make re
useable magnetic tin markers to help label tins by contents. The 3D
printer is particularly useful as it is easy to make bespoke labels to
suit anyone's needs.

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[tony sayer]

>
>Amongst blind people within the UK Braille is used by about 1%. As a
>medium for reading novels it is hard work, a paperback novel in
>Braille would be the size of half a dozen large heavy encyclopedias.
>

;!.. Suppose a kindle reader does text to speech?..

>For labeling things it is far more useful. Having custard on your
>beans because someone moved tins around on a shelf ceases to be
>amusing quite quickly.

Do you know it was only a week ago that I noticed that medicine packets
had Braille on them!...

> I'm currently using a 3D printer to make re
>useable magnetic tin markers to help label tins by contents. The 3D
>printer is particularly useful as it is easy to make bespoke labels to
>suit anyone's needs.
>

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[Bob Eager]

In the 80s we did have a student USING a one line Braille display. A
couple of years ago we had a student using Windows, via NVDA (which is
quite good, and free).

[Andrew Gabriel]

In article <G66dnaZLl8XEkxbI...@eclipse.net.uk>,

Etaoin Shrdlu <n...@way.com> writes:
> Did anyone here ever make one of these, or know someone who did? Does
> anyone else even remember it? Just curious.

I remember it. I ran for ages in the 1970's Everyday Electonics.
I remember it because it was the one bit of the magazine I wasn't
interested in, and it never seemed to stop!

I probably still have them - I haven't ever thrown any of those
magazines away, although some have probably got lost or fallen
to bits over the decades.

I recall someone making one in the woodwork shop at school over
quite a long period of time, but I don't recall if I ever saw it
finished.

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[The Natural Philosopher]

On 24/06/15 22:41, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
> gareth wrote:
>> "Etaoin Shrdlu" <n...@way.com> wrote in message
>> news:G66dnaZLl8XEkxbI...@eclipse.net.uk...

>>> Did anyone here ever make one of these, or know someone who did? Does
>>> anyone else even remember it? Just curious.
>>

>> Do you mean the electric guitar in Practical Electronics (merged into
>> Everyday Electronics)
>> published in the late 1960s?
>>
>

> I'd have thought it was early 70's, but maybe it's the same thing. Weird

> how you'd actually consider building your own guitar in those days.
> Nowadays, you'd just buy one.
>

I built mine last year. OK I didn't build it totally from scratch but I
got a beautiful £800 strat (copy) for £300..

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someone else's pocket.

[mickf...@googlemail.com]

Yes, I made it, still got it... The magazine and the guitar. 1972 it is. I would need to look in the loft, to get the month :)

[mickf...@googlemail.com]

1972... It came out

[harry]

On Wednesday, 24 June 2015 22:41:26 UTC+1, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
> gareth wrote:
> > "Etaoin Shrdlu" <n...@way.com> wrote in message
> > news:G66dnaZLl8XEkxbI...@eclipse.net.uk...
> >> Did anyone here ever make one of these, or know someone who did? Does
> >> anyone else even remember it? Just curious.
> >
> > Do you mean the electric guitar in Practical Electronics (merged into
> > Everyday Electronics)
> > published in the late 1960s?
> >
>
> I'd have thought it was early 70's, but maybe it's the same thing.
> Weird how you'd actually consider building your own guitar in those
> days. Nowadays, you'd just buy one.

Nobody have any money.
It was pre-globalisation, we didn't have third world child slaves working for us.

[Adrian Caspersz]

On 19/12/16 11:21, mickf...@googlemail.com wrote:
> 1972... It came out
>

The "Delta"

November, December 72 to January 73

http://www.chatzones.co.uk/discus/messages/7845/13334.html?1341000689

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[Rod Speed]

"harry" <harry...@btinternet.com> wrote in message
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> On Wednesday, 24 June 2015 22:41:26 UTC+1, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
>> gareth wrote:
>> > "Etaoin Shrdlu" <n...@way.com> wrote in message
>> > news:G66dnaZLl8XEkxbI...@eclipse.net.uk...
>> >> Did anyone here ever make one of these, or know someone who did? Does
>> >> anyone else even remember it? Just curious.
>> >
>> > Do you mean the electric guitar in Practical Electronics (merged into
>> > Everyday Electronics)
>> > published in the late 1960s?
>> >
>>
>> I'd have thought it was early 70's, but maybe it's the same thing.
>> Weird how you'd actually consider building your own guitar in those
>> days. Nowadays, you'd just buy one.
>
> Nobody have any money.

Liz had plenty. So did quite a few others as well.

> It was pre-globalisation, we didn't have
> third world child slaves working for us.

Even sillier than you usually manage.

You poms had that for centurys, you pig ignorant clown.

[rick]

On 19/12/2016 11:19, mickf...@googlemail.com wrote:
> Yes, I made it, still got it... The magazine and the guitar. 1972 it is. I would need to look in the loft, to get the month :)
>

I used to get (EE from isuue No. 1) and also Practical Electronics ...
up until early 80's at that time they then swung to every project having
an eprom
Got a bit ridiculous.

My John Linley Hood tuner still going well.
Used to be buying mail order components from Maplin or Watford Electronics.

[Tim Watts]

That seems to be a lot of stuff in Elektor now.

I built (of my own design at ages 12-14) a kitchen timer, caravan water
level meter, tacho for our car (hardest bit was isolation of spikes from
contact breaker, and debouncing) and numerous magazine and Heathkit
projects.

All of the things I built could be done with one AVR (or PIC if you
prefer). Rather than the 2-14 CMOS logic chips I used.

However, I think mine were probably more interesting and educational in
one sense rather than turning everything into a programming problem.

[Bod]

I built an electric guitar to my own design way back in the 70s. Great fun.

[Rod Speed]

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Programming is the best way to do stuff like that now.

[James Wilkinson Sword]

Including carving the wood?

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And then the fight started.......

[bm]

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I made one in ~1965 using a bog seat as the body.
They were pulling some houses down near us, would've been a shame to waste
it.

[Bod]

> Yes.

[Bod]

:-)

[therustyone]

>
> Do you know it was only a week ago that I noticed that medicine packets
> had Braille on them!...
>

> Tony Sayer

Wow. Wondered what that was all about.
Noticed some Braile on a lift panel in a posh hotel last week too.

[The Natural Philosopher]

On 22/12/16 10:04, Bod wrote:

>>> I built an electric guitar to my own design way back in the 70s. Great
>>> fun.
>>
>> I made one in ~1965 using a bog seat as the body.
>> They were pulling some houses down near us, would've been a shame to
>> waste
>> it.
>>
>>
> :-)

Better for bass guitars where you need the bottom...
..I'll get my coat...

[bm]

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:D
T'was a bass actually.

[James Wilkinson Sword]

https://youtu.be/Tk-5RVMerfI

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Do you still have it, or a photo?

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Who talked about God and such things.
But his real desire
Was a boy in the choir,
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On Wednesday, 24 June 2015 21:08:59 UTC+1, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
> Did anyone here ever make one of these, or know someone who did? Does
> anyone else even remember it? Just curious.

Yes and I made one.

[Brian Gaff]

That new eh?
2015, I'm surprised there were still any home constructors about then.
Brian

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[Brian Reay]

On 23/03/2017 07:34, Brian Gaff wrote:
> That new eh?
> 2015, I'm surprised there were still any home constructors about then.
> Brian
>

There are still some of us around now.

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[The Natural Philosopher]

On 23/03/17 07:45, Brian Reay wrote:
> On 23/03/2017 07:34, Brian Gaff wrote:
>> That new eh?
>> 2015, I'm surprised there were still any home constructors about then.
>> Brian
>>
>
> There are still some of us around now.
>

Well I made my guitar a couple of years ago, but I will admit I bought a
pattern part neck, body, some ready made picklups.....


Best strat I ever played tho.

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[bm]

"The Natural Philosopher" <t...@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
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> On 23/03/17 07:45, Brian Reay wrote:
>> On 23/03/2017 07:34, Brian Gaff wrote:
>>> That new eh?
>>> 2015, I'm surprised there were still any home constructors about then.
>>> Brian
>>>
>>
>> There are still some of us around now.
>>
> Well I made my guitar a couple of years ago, but I will admit I bought a
> pattern part neck, body, some ready made picklups.....
>
>
> Best strat I ever played tho.

That's cheating, you should at least have cut the fret slots with an NC
miller ;)

[The Natural Philosopher]

Look if I had the tools and the time I would. I actually did the
drawings for some of Jim Burns guitars when we set up a small factory to
manufacture them in the 70s.

You can do nearly all you need with a router and a jig but its a hellofa
faff.

Hand carving necks works well but it takes like forever.


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let them."

[Nick Odell]

On Thu, 23 Mar 2017 09:25:45 +0000, The Natural Philosopher
<t...@invalid.invalid> wrote:

>On 23/03/17 09:19, bm wrote:
>> "The Natural Philosopher" <t...@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
>> news:ob03ir$d1o$2...@news.albasani.net...
>>> On 23/03/17 07:45, Brian Reay wrote:
>>>> On 23/03/2017 07:34, Brian Gaff wrote:
>>>>> That new eh?
>>>>> 2015, I'm surprised there were still any home constructors about then.
>>>>> Brian
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> There are still some of us around now.
>>>>
>>> Well I made my guitar a couple of years ago, but I will admit I bought a
>>> pattern part neck, body, some ready made picklups.....
>>>
>>>
>>> Best strat I ever played tho.
>>
>> That's cheating, you should at least have cut the fret slots with an NC
>> miller ;)
>>
>>
>Look if I had the tools and the time I would. I actually did the
>drawings for some of Jim Burns guitars when we set up a small factory to
>manufacture them in the 70s.
>

Were you at Littleport then? The Steer and the... oh, what was the
other one called?

Nick

[The Natural Philosopher]

Yes I was. Scorpion was it? I can't remember..



> Nick
>


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[F Murtz]

No but I made these,
http://imgur.com/a/OyhN0

[Nick Odell]

On Thu, 23 Mar 2017 11:10:32 +0000, The Natural Philosopher

<t...@invalid.invalid> wrote:

>On 23/03/17 10:38, Nick Odell wrote:
>> On Thu, 23 Mar 2017 09:25:45 +0000, The Natural Philosopher
>> <t...@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>> On 23/03/17 09:19, bm wrote:
>>>> "The Natural Philosopher" <t...@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
>>>> news:ob03ir$d1o$2...@news.albasani.net...
>>>>> On 23/03/17 07:45, Brian Reay wrote:
>>>>>> On 23/03/2017 07:34, Brian Gaff wrote:
>>>>>>> That new eh?
>>>>>>> 2015, I'm surprised there were still any home constructors about then.
>>>>>>> Brian
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> There are still some of us around now.
>>>>>>
>>>>> Well I made my guitar a couple of years ago, but I will admit I bought a
>>>>> pattern part neck, body, some ready made picklups.....
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Best strat I ever played tho.
>>>>
>>>> That's cheating, you should at least have cut the fret slots with an NC
>>>> miller ;)
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Look if I had the tools and the time I would. I actually did the
>>> drawings for some of Jim Burns guitars when we set up a small factory to
>>> manufacture them in the 70s.
>>>
>> Were you at Littleport then? The Steer and the... oh, what was the
>> other one called?
>>
>
>Yes I was. Scorpion was it? I can't remember..
>

So was this while Bob Pearson was there? He was my boss at Hayman.

Nick

[The Natural Philosopher]

Golly yes it WAS he joined a bit after we all moved up there.

Good woodworker.

[Chit3]

Yes Everyday Electronics magazine published plans about 1972
Without proper tools or ease of availability of parts except fretwire and p90 pickups I attempted a build at school in a metalwork class. It was a bit of a disaster the neck was too thick once the fingerboard was attached....It did play just but i gave up with it and saved up £45 at 20 p per hour pay rate for a second hand Boosey & Hawks Les Paul Gold top. The home built Everyday Electronics version was thrown out by my Mother years later.

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[newshound]

On 19/12/2021 18:31, Chit3 wrote:

> It did play just but i gave up with it and saved up £45 at
> 20 p per hour pay rate for a second hand Boosey & Hawks Les Paul Gold
> top.

I hope you have kept it!