So, with the fretless conversion pretty successful, now I’m thinking about other guitar hacks to try. I might try converting another cheap guitar into a slide guitar. Thats a pretty standard conversion, so shouldn’t be too bad.

It would be cool to have some sort of sustainer[1] on the fretless (or the regular guitars as well). There is a mostly[2] interesting thread at Project Guitar about building DIY sustainers. So that would make an interesting project. Maybe a slide guitar with a sustainer.

Or perhaps go the Sonic Youth/Glen Branca route and tune one so all the strings are the same note. For a while I’ve been thinking about getting a electric 12 string and putting a high tuning on it (aka, more or less a 12 string Nashville Tuning). Just for chimy shimmering chordal stuff.

[1] A sustainer is just a device that causes guitar strings to continue vibrating. An E-bow is an example of a sustainer.

[2] The thread has 600+ posts in it, so a lot of noise comes with a lot of signal.

Some slightly higher quality pics, showing the finished neck in more detail.

Fretboard after wood filler and sanding, with strings on (a set of .12 flat wounds)

Looking down the [un?]fretboard.