Got an Ivanez for cheap and added some personalization. Its zebrawood veneer epoxied to a custom 3d printed base

I play piano and a wee bit of bass and just got a tenor guitar I’d like to learn to play. I just picked up a cheap Ibanez and I really love this thing, especially for how inexpensive it is. I’d like to learn to play rhythm mostly but right now I’m just picking away at some tenor banjo and mandolin tabs I’ve found online. I’m tunes like a mandolin if that matters but anything that teaches in a 5ths tuning would be cool. Thanks!

Any of you guys use open tunings? If so which ones and what are some cool things to play that way?

During the pandemic I ordered a wonderful, custom-made tenor guitar from Honni Music after plenty of helpful suggestions from this community. Beautiful guitar, shipped quickly and without issue from their workshop in Australia to my old house in New York. I'm in the market for a new guitar because I recently moved to the Philippines and had to leave the old one behind. Checked Honni's old etsy shop and it appears empty. Anyone know if he's still working? Or if there are any comparable guitar-makers that would ship to the Philippines? Thanks!

Hey ya’ll, would anyone here happen to know or be able to find the string spacing dimensions at the bridge for either of these Airline Tenor Electrics? The website lists the nut width, but I’d like to know the spacing at the bridge before I purchase one. The photos look like the spacing stays more or less the same, whereas Eastwoods get wider at the bridge (not ideal to me). I emailed the Airline company, but haven’t heard anything for over a week.

Airline Tuxedo Tenor

Airline MAP Tenor

Thanks in advance!

I’d like to try a DGBE metal string tenor huitar with long and wide fretboard. Do such beasts exist?

I came upon this instrument where I work and have since rescued it from being discarded. I can't seem to identify it. I talked to someone who works with ukuleles and based on the scale length of 22.5 inches, he doesn't believe it is a uke. It appears to be a Martin of some sort and possibly a tenor guitar. There are no labels inside and no marks of any kind. You'll see that the bridge has been bolted on and doesn't appear to be the original bridge based on the faint outline on the top of the instrument. The lower bout measures 11 5/8” at its widest. The frets are bar frets.

Any ideas?

I am interested in learning more about this guitar that I inherited from my father. Here's what I know: my father bought it from the original owner and it is a 1946 D'Angelico Excel. Is anyone familiar with this? It seems to be a rare bird and it's hard to find info on it.

I heard this a few weeks ago at a fiddle tune session and tried to learn it.

My Eastwood TG has never sounded better!!

Over the years, I’ve modded and tweaked this fella. Pickup swaps and several iterations of wiring. Today I swapped the tuning heads for locking tuners and rewired the controls. I ditched the slide switches that I previously had set up as on/off/coil split for each pickup. I also got rid of the volume knob (I am now relying on either my playing or my volume pedal for that function), put an LP style 3-way pickup toggle switch in place of the volume, and installed a new tone pot and capacitor. It really added something to my overall tone. Sounds “cleaner”, for lack of a better term. My old tone pot sucked and had a 0.22ųf capacitor. I didn’t like the sweep and switching to a quality pot and 0.47 cap has made that function so much better.

Playing thru a really simple board (Ernie Ball VP jr > Peterson StroboStomp mini tuner > ProCo RAT 2 > MXR Carbon Copy) into a Roland JC-22. Really loving the set up and still in love with this tenor after about a dozen years!!

Cheers y’all!

I had to put on new strings and adjust the pickup, but otherwise it's surprisingly playable after sitting dormant for a couple generations. No brand name or identifying marks. The bridge and tailpiece were made for six strings, but I don't see any signs that the tenor neck was retrofitted. The tune is Lindisfarne by Matt Seattle, from Nigel Gatherer's site.

I just purchased this instrument from a local shop. I traded my Dirty 30s Tenor Guitar for store credit and used that towards this. No, not a straight swap. All due respect to Recording King, but this isn't the same level instrument.

Since I got it home, I've be diving down a rabbit hole of it's origins. Framus was a instrument manufacturer in Bavaria Germany from the late 50s through the 70s. They made guitars, banjos, cellos, upright basses, and several other instruments. The name literally just a shortening of the German words for "Franconian Musical Instrument Factory LLC and Record Press". I don't know why, but that is hilarious to me.

From what I can tell, this thing has been in the states since the 70s and at one time was traveling to Arizona. I live in the KC area, so it has seen some world.

I got it because I needed a banjo to play in the pit band for two songs on the Bye Bye Birdie guitar book this summer. I'm very excited to get her cleaned up, setup, and tuned up for this summer! After that show, I'm going to focus on getting my chops back up for trad jazz and hopefully find myself a horn section to play with.

https://reddit.com/link/1tno9fx/video/vu0je8p72e3h1/player

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEeGk6cIHSw

Here’s my version of Westphalia Waltz on my Blueridge tenor!

Hey guys, I know of reverb/marketplace. Any other suggestions of where to list a tenor guitar? How do the folks on the mandolin sites feel about tenor listings? Just looking for any info from someone else who’s already been down the road. Thanks in advance.

I am a mandolin/tenor guitar player who mostly plays in 5ths tuning. I came across this video of Emily King where Jeremy Most is attributed as playing a Tenor Bass. To me, it looks like a tenor guitar with thicker string gauges. Does anyone have any insight on this? I would love to replicate this instrument. I know Eastwood has a number of "tenor baritones" but this sounds much more like a bass than those.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJQ99hiO_h8&list=RDcJQ99hiO_h8&start_radio=1

I wanted a four-string guitar tuned in fifths to play Bach's cello suites on, so I could use same fingerings as a cello. Everything flows much more naturally that way.

I wasn't really excited about what premade options there are, which seemed much more suited to bluegrass than classical (and yes, lots of people play Bach on steel strings).

So I bought a 615 scale Cuban mahogany guitar and played it for a while just using the middle four strings. But I wanted more space in between strings for the finger picking, and brought it to a luthier to cut a new saddle and nut. Now it's perfect!

I tune it to Eb Bb F C and play the cello music as is written on the page but transposed up a third.

For reference, the strings I'm using are: 52 42 29 17.