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Winter Build Off 2023 Voting - Non-Bass Build

Please vote for the instrument of your choice

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Beej

Beej

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Feb 10, 2007
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#1
On December 21, 2022 a challenge was issued here in the Luthier's Corner. The theme is Let Your Nerd Flag Fly Winter Build Off 2023 - Let Your Nerd Flag Fly

This vote will be for Non-Bass Builds.
Please review the builders page listed below.

Normally, you would have from 1 to 3 votes to select your favorites, however this time around, we only had one entrant complete in time.

Please help me congratulate @TFM94 on an incredible build!

TFM94 - Supersymmetry
Winter Build Off 2023 - Supersymmetry
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Get a load of the accompanying song in the build thread - nice work, and thanks for playing. You blew the competition away. :D
 
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Beej said:
On December 21, 2022 a challenge was issued here in the Luthier's Corner. The theme is Let Your Nerd Flag Fly Winter Build Off 2023 - Let Your Nerd Flag Fly

This vote will be for Non-Bass Builds.
Please review the builders page listed below.

Normally, you would have from 1 to 3 votes to select your favorites, however this time around, we only had one entrant complete in time.

Please help me congratulate @TFM94 on an incredible build!

TFM94 - Supersymmetry
Winter Build Off 2023 - Supersymmetry
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Get a load of the accompanying song in the build thread - nice work, and thanks for playing. You blew the competition away. :D
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Thanks @Beej for setting up the voting thread...even though there's no voting. It's been a lot of fun participating in the build-off again, a big thank you to everyone who joined and especially ot @Beej for organizing it.

There are a few more entries in this category that are yet to be completed, I'm very excited to see how they turn out!
 
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2groggy said:
BTW, one of my basses uses the same or similar tuners. What do you think of the design?
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The jury is still out on that. It's my first headless instrument, so I have to get used to tuning at the bridge. My hand still reaches for the headstock intuitively...I have no other headless systems to compare it to.

These are ABM bell brass tuners and the construction seems good, but they are a little hard to turn under string tension. I don't know if that's normal for headless tuners. When I was working on the nut slots and setup I had to loosen and tighten the strings a number of times, and my fingers still hurt from turning the knobs. I've seen some people put bearings or washers between the bridge and the knobs, I wonder if that would help. However, for normal tuning purposes I think it's fine as it is.

What I liked about the ABM bridges is that they come with unslotted saddles, so I could fine-tune the string spacing by filing the slots myself. By fine-tuning I mean very small offsets, nothing major. With the unslotted saddles the strings had too much sideways play in my opinion.
 
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