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11-19-2006, 12:09 PM
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Hey everyone, I was thinking about building a whamola around Thanksgiving, and I will definitely need some help on building one. Please feel free to add to items I need for the list, Thanks!
Items needed:
wood for the body (edit: w/ steel pole inside?)
a strip of wood as the "fretboard"
EMG (or other kind) humbuckers/P pickups
some metal stuff to connect the lever w/ the body
screws
After I get these above items, I will post how I will build the whamola, and of course, I would need your help on that too.
Thanks! 
Last edited by AmazingGracePlayer : 11-19-2006 at 03:37 PM.
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11-19-2006, 01:06 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: London | | | you might want to put this in the luthiers corner.
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11-19-2006, 02:07 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Somewhere in the maritimes. | | | ...yeah...luthiers is probably what your looking for... |
11-19-2006, 02:13 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Columbus OH | | | Be aware that the body of the actual whamola is made of aluminum, not wood. I would be concerned that the extreme tension variations when yanking the lever would cause such a thin piece of wood to flex unacceptably.
Also, the lever and pulley are the critical pieces. I'd suggest you locate those first before you plan everything else.
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11-19-2006, 03:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: north of chicago | | | yeah, it was made of bent hollow alluminum
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11-19-2006, 03:37 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Summit, NJ | | | I was thinking, for the body, wood with a steel pole inside it... would that work? |
11-19-2006, 04:28 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Lismore, NSW, Australia | | Use the TB search. There have been threads on building Whamolas before. There are some pretty good pictures in those threads too. They are quite basic to make 
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11-19-2006, 09:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Summit, NJ | | | I did search before and found 2 threads worth mentioning.
1. a thread made by a person like me wanting to make a whamola, and on it, I found no guides or anything. (not like I was expecting to find guides)
2. a thread with pictures of a finish whamola.... |
11-20-2006, 01:25 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Voorhees, NJ | | | good luck man. |
11-20-2006, 02:07 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Wellington, New Zealand. | | | I have one in pieces in my wardrobe - need some motivation to make it (and tools might help too!)
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11-20-2006, 05:28 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Summit, NJ | | I might take it to my school's woodshop class and make it with the teacher together after/before school  |
11-20-2006, 05:39 AM
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Endorsing Artist: Warwick Bass and Amp | | Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: England, Liverpool | | | sorry...what's a whamola?
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11-20-2006, 08:33 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Singapore | | | too complicated. a thick plank of wood with no fretboard and no steel bar will probably work best.
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11-20-2006, 08:42 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Wellington, New Zealand | | | whats the point of a fretboard, you dont fret the whamloa, you play it like a trombone... (kind of)
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11-20-2006, 09:51 AM
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Originally Posted by Fishbrain sorry...what's a whamola? | anyone??
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11-20-2006, 11:08 AM
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Originally Posted by Fishbrain anyone?? | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4_H4T2lj-4
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11-20-2006, 12:49 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Stockholm, Sweden | | | I'm actaully in the process of building a whamola myself, and I'm probably finishing it after work this thursday. I have a hollow aluminium square "tube", a wooden (oak) handle and that's about it. I'll use a double bass-string, a simple machine for it and one of those cello-things you use to raise and lower it.
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11-22-2006, 05:12 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Summit, NJ | | | It's impossible to drill a hole in a 4 feet long wood and put a pole in it, so I'm just going to spend a few extra bucks and get the best piece of wood possible. The project starts next week! My friend from school is helping me build my whamola because I helped him build a waterfall. Yes, a waterfall. |
11-22-2006, 06:58 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: north of chicago | | | a router would be the way to put the metal in, route a channel, put in the metal so it partially fills the channel, glue in a piece of wod
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11-22-2006, 07:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Summit, NJ | | | Nah, I'l just get a solid piece of maple. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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