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String Instruments:

Solid Body Guitars.
A solid​ body musical instrument is a string instrument such as a guitar, bass or violin built without its normal sound box and relying on an electric pickup system to directly receive the vibrations of the strings.

Charlie Johnson building a Solid Body Slide Ukulele (on the left) and  a Solid Body Slide Guitar (on the right). Also Banjos in the lower photo.
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Charlie's hollow Banjo bodies, necks and fret boards.
Click on the link buttons:
Who really invented the electric guitar?
Solid Body String Instruments
Pros & cons of building your own Guitar
Free Guitar Plans
Australian Guitar Timbers
Solid body or Hollow body Guitar?
Free Guitar Plans
Free Ukulele Plans
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Patent Art of the very first ever Electric Guitar in 1937 that revitalized the Music Industry.
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Baratto Rosofiddle Cigar Box Guitar
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Sir Paul McCartney playing a Baratto Rosofiddle with Nirvana
Shovel & Cigar Box Guitars - Justin Johnson

Difference between a Guitar and a Ukulele: 

  • Guitars are bigger than ukuleles in size.
  • Guitarists prefer nylon strings or steel strings for their instrument, but ukulele players prefer nylon strings rather than using steel strings.
  • The standard guitar has six strings attached to it while a standard ukulele has only four strings.
  • There are only two kinds of guitars: acoustic guitars and electric guitars. The ukulele, on the other hand, has four classical kinds: soprano, concert or alto ukulele, tenor, and the largest ukulele is baritone.

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Ukuleles
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Guitars
Solid Body Electric Guitars:

Semi-Acoustic, Semi-Hollow Body 'F'-hole Electric Guitars:

Gibson Es-335 demo
These guitars present their own problems when rewiring or replacing potentiometers, capacitors or the switch. To carryout this work the full harness containing the components has to be brought out and returned to the guitar via one of the 'F'-holes. This is tricky and time consuming. Therefore being able to test all the components including the wiring before reinstalling the harness is a great advantage.
Below is a test rig that can fully test the wiring, components and pickups while they are out of the guitar. The rig can also be used on other types of electric guitars.
It is simple to build. All that is needed is a tuner/amplifier unit and a small current transformer used as a coil. Just set the tuner to a music station when testing.
Below explains how the vibration of the strings interact with the magnetic field of the pickup. Therefore the magnetic flux produced by the magnetised vibrating strings can be replaced with the magnetic flux produced by a magnetised coil driven by the audio signal(music) from the tuner/amplifier. The music will then be heard from the connected guitar amplifier.
This allows the pickups, volume and tone controls as well as the pickup selector switch to be operated and tested fully without installing the strings.
 
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Semi-Hollow Body Electric Guitar - Test Rig without installing the strings.
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Multi-neck Guitars:
A multi-neck guitar is a guitar that has multiple fingerboard necks. They exist in both electric and acoustic versions. Although multi-neck guitars are quite common today, they are not a modern invention. Examples of multi-neck guitars and lutes go back at least to the Renaissance.
Today, the most common type of multi-neck guitar is the double neck guitar, of which the most common version is an electric guitar with twelve strings on the upper neck, while the lower neck has the normal six. Combination six-string and bass guitar are also used, as well as a fretless guitar with a regular fretted guitar, or any other combination of guitar neck and pickup styles. There are also acoustic versions. Two necks allows the guitarist to switch quickly and easily between guitar sounds without taking the time to change guitars.
Click here for Double Neck Guitar Demo
Click here for a multi neck "Resonant Chamber".
No...not made at our Shed.

Violin.

History of the Violin
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Vieuxtemps Guarneri
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This is a masterpiece made by the artist in Violin making Guiseppe Guarneri in 1741. The instrument has been played by masters like, Pinchas Zukerman, Itzhak Perlman and Yehudi Menuhin. The famous owners also include Ian Stouzker and Sir Issac Wolfson. The Violin was sold for a world record price that has not been disclosed, just like the name of the buyer, but the base price was fixed at $18 million USD.
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Vieuxtemps Guarneri
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1920s Gangster with his violin case on the way to a 'Concert'.....
Electric Violins:
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Bush Furniture.

The leg section of each piece is made from Eucalyptus Gum. The plain tops are made from Norfolk Pine. The top with the dark strip down the middle is Punus with the dark strip being made from Tasmanian Red Cedar.
The furniture was designed and manufactured by our Shed member Kevin Toombs for local Illawarra Company
 Bohmers Tree Care. 
Bohmers provide the materials from their business.
Click on the button links below...
Bohmers & Men's Sheds in the Illawarra
Bohmers Tree Care
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'Spring into Corrimal' 
Early September.

The largest one-day free family festival in the Illawarra and Regional NSW.
More than 50,000 people attend....
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Corrimal Community Men's Shed Stall.

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Five members of our Shed were invited to hold a DIY class with fifteen Cubs from the Corrimal Scout Group. Each cub constructed a small tool box. All the Cubs completed their projects with a little help from their mentors and all went away happy.
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Onions on the top or under the sausage?....for safety, under is the answer....less chance of dropping onion pieces.

Slide Show:

Photo Gallery:
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Ken Kirwood with his Bushman
Intarsia Patterns with a Down Under Theme
More of Ken Kirwood's work...
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Click here for video explaining Intarsia

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Pyrography work by Shed member Colin Edwards on Life Membership Award for our member Bob Richardson.
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Example of the effects with some of the different tool tips and heat settings.
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Work by Colorado(USA) Pyrographer Minisa Robinson

A Few Projects:

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Above two BBQ tables and below two preparation tables. All built by our members for Bulli Pre-school Centre.
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Bob & Col with fellow Shed member Kim. A number of Shed members contributed to the construction of the ramps.


'Operation Christmas Child'.

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These toys have been made for 'Operation Christmas Child' a Christian Organisation which each year packs shoe boxes containing clothes, toys, dolls, washers and soap etc.  Last year over 5000 boxes were sent from the Illawarra going to Cambodia, Fiji, Vietnam, Papua New Guinea and other countries. 

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OPeration christmas child

'Corrimal's Got Talent'.

Fund raising concert by Corrimal Region Uniting Church each year.  The Men's Shed 'SHEDSTARS' are just one of the many talented groups and individuals that have performed. The 'SHEDSTARS' have performed "You Were Lucky" & "Ballet for Males" plus other skits.
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Click on the button below to watch the talent of some 'Shedders'
….you will enjoy!

'Shedders have got talent'
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Men's Health Week - held in June each year.

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Dr. Rob Walters who toured Australia, gave an excellent talk on men's health.  Dr. Walters was the Chair of the Australian Divisions of General Practice (ADGP now AGPN), the national organisation that represents 117 local divisions of General Practice.

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Tony Roosenburg - Model Builder.
All the models are made from recycled wood.

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Tony with the models he has built.
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Wood Carving - Bill Cheyne

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Bill Cheyne
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Charlie Johnson

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We can all relate to this!
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Then & Now....

Elderly, note...

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