Thoughts on new design TELE-Mandolin

Working in my CAD/CAM program and wanted the outline of a mandolin but the neck and insides of a TELE.

I am curious what people think of this design.
My CNC machine is down right now and should be back up and running around or after Christmas. Mean time I am working on some CAD/CAM designs of what I might make next. :wink::rolleyes:

Personally, I'd like a thinner more Fender style F-hole. How many strings? Four, five, eight or the six in your rendering?

It's a six string. Everything in the center is same as normal Tele, just the outside is different. As for the F-hole, I am thinking of putting a music not there.

What key will it be tuned to. Will the string relation be the same as a guitar. As you probably know a normal mandolin is tuned like a violin. G,D,A,E .

Really didn't think about that one. :)
Figure it would be just like a guitar but shaped like a mandolin. So would tune it same as a 6 string guitar.

So it's to be a full size guitar shaped like a mandolin........... a mandotar or a guitarlin.

A mandotar.

So it's to be a full size guitar shaped like a mandolin........... a mandotar or a guitarlin.

YES!!! :) A full sized guitar shaped like a mandolin. :)

looking good

got enough room for a bigsby.... :mrgreen:

Thanks for the compliments. Can't wait till my CNC machine is up and running again so I can cut one of these out. :)


I have never mounted a bigsby before, but I think there is plenty enough room. :)

Aha!

You're building an Ibanez Custom Agent!

http://cdn1.gbase.com/usercontent/gear/839122/p1_ur4m4sdzi_so.jpg

Sort of...

I think I have one of those upstairs.

Or at least the pieces of one.

I've always wanted to do this. The tight curl freaks me out tho. Guess it's the perfect job for a CNC.

F style mandos are such a pretty shape.

Thanks for the compliments. Can't wait till my CNC machine is up and running again so I can cut one of these out. :)


I have never mounted a bigsby before, but I think there is plenty enough room. :)
Not such a fan of a Bigsby on a small body (from an aesthetic standpoint, I'm sure they work fine :smile:). This one would look cool LINK (http://www.guitarfetish.com/Vintage-Style-Surface-Mount-Whammy-Bar-Hofner-Vibrola-style_p_839.html) however, IMO :smile:

Aha!

You're building an Ibanez Custom Agent!

http://cdn1.gbase.com/usercontent/gear/839122/p1_ur4m4sdzi_so.jpg

Sort of...

I think I have one of those upstairs.

Or at least the pieces of one.

Love the Mando/Tele idea!!! That should be ultra cool. What colors are you considering?

I had one of those Custom Agents given to me by a friend for helping him move to a new apartment several years ago. After about 10 years of it sitting on a guitar stand in my music room and never being played I sold it to a collector in NJ for $750. (Mine was pretty unplayable but in a very rare color he told me) He had been looking for years to find the reddish burst that I had. It completed his collection. Very cool guitars that Ibanez started building right after Gibson started threats of lawsuits for their other Les Paul style guitars.

Here is a photo of my buyers completed collection of Custom Agents....

Not sure what colors yet. Right now I am just excited when my machine is up and running to cut it out.

Not saying I am going to, but this could be a cool cloth covered paisley type design.....

Love the Mando/Tele idea!!! That should be ultra cool. What colors are you considering?

I had one of those Custom Agents given to me by a friend for helping him move to a new apartment several years ago. After about 10 years of it sitting on a guitar stand in my music room and never being played I sold it to a collector in NJ for $750. (Mine was pretty unplayable but in a very rare color he told me) He had been looking for years to find the reddish burst that I had. It completed his collection. Very cool guitars that Ibanez started building right after Gibson started threats of lawsuits for their other Les Paul style guitars.

Here is a photo of my buyers completed collection of Custom Agents....

I'll be a three-toed sloth hanging upside down in a rainstorm! Never suspected they existed in any color than the one I posted.

Thanks for giving me some education.

:smile: