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 Post subject: Make wood transparent?
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https://www.instructables.com/id/Transparent-Wood/

I don't think this is a good idea for instrument makers. Epoxy is not tone, and looking at nice tonewoods is fun!

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Hey, maybe I can build a bowl back guitar with that and keep fish in it!

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The name catgut is confusing. There are two explanations for the mix up.

Catgut is an abbreviation of the word cattle gut. Gut strings are made from sheep or goat intestines, in the past even from horse, mule or donkey intestines.

Otherwise it could be from the word kitgut or kitstring. Kit meant fiddle, not kitten.
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Unless you play on your back, the fish and water would spill out of the soundhole.


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Says who?


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The name catgut is confusing. There are two explanations for the mix up.

Catgut is an abbreviation of the word cattle gut. Gut strings are made from sheep or goat intestines, in the past even from horse, mule or donkey intestines.

Otherwise it could be from the word kitgut or kitstring. Kit meant fiddle, not kitten.
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I stand corrected! And this is how the fishbowl guitar was born.
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. . . I figure the fishbowl guitar would be great for playing scales. If I take it to a gig, I'm afraid I would tank or flounder. You would have to use herringbone for the purfling. And yes, the braces would be applied using fish glue. I love how these ideas bubble up to the surface.


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Oh cod here we go with the fish puns; I'll take the bait. I wonder if you could tuna guitar like that. It might be better to make it a bass.

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So what would you use for the fin...ish?

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So what would you use for the fin...ish?


Waterbased, for sure.

I almost feel embarrassed for taking that bit of low hanging fruit.
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And all the songs played on the fishbowl guitar must be in the key of sea.
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Crap (Crappie?)!!!! Somebody beat us to it!

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I think you would have to play a lot of choral music on the fishbowl guitar.

I'm hooked.


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Stop being Koi, you know you would use shell-ak. Naturally you would dissolve the flukes yourself.

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Crap (Crappie?)!!!! Somebody beat us to it!

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I think you would have to play a lot of choral music on the fishbowl guitar.

I'm hooked.


I see they solved the leaking bridgepin holes by using a TAILpiece.

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Maybe Vince Gill would play a fishbowl guitar.
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I wonder if someone could make a bass the same way.


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Someone on the Warmoth forum (where I found the story) suggested it would be great for fingerboards so you could tell the exact moment you broke the truss rod when overtightening.

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