Five Stringed Chicken Cooker

It has been a mighty slow summer as far as instruments are concerned.
I finally managed to get the Five Stringed Chicken Cooker finished yesterday.
The neck was from a busted up Ovation that some kind person left for me at my local pub. It was just slightly more bashed up after a few pints and a rock and roll ending.
The only reason it’s a five string is because one of the tuning pegs was busted and I didn’t feel replacing it. I’m just lazy like that.
The eye bolt on the end was put there for two reasons. The first is to raise the strings when I raise the bridge. The second is to add my blackberry that I never use. One of the neat side effects is that it can be used as a whammy bar if you are into that kind of stuff.
Most importantly it has a great tin banjo sound.
One of the best things I like is the bridge I used. It came from an old film projector base. It was used to raise the front end up or down. Now it can be use to raise or lower the action. I think I may need to try this on a new instrument, raising both the nut and the bridge to convert it into more of a slide instrument. The only problem I can see with that is the intonation being messed up. It may have to be re tuned each time, but that’s a story for another day.

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