Here is Delia in her final state:
I'll get a song up once I get a little better at playing her, but Delia sounds great with these heavy gauge flatwound guitar strings. You can get a kind of sitar type sound on the G string while droning the D. Along the fingerboard I scratched in diatonic markers for reference points:
Each of my builds seems to end up with a theme album. For the defretting—franken—P-bass build it was Paul Simon's Graceland and for this it was Lou Reed's Berlin, Live at St. Ann's Warehouse. What's interesting to me, with guitar strings (instead of the bass setup) this instrument really fits the tone of that album.
What gave me the extra shove to try this was coming across this video. This guy does this regularly for local schools—so kids with small hands can start learning bass. I think that's really cool. His seems to sound much better than my version. Check him out.
First Act dubbed this the Delia and I'll keep the name because of the man in black:
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