The Hee Haw "Plank" + Cigar Box SITAR & The Worthless Guitar!

What's the Deal with Speal returns with three different instruments: The Worthless Guitar, a Cigar Box SITAR and a forgotten instrument from the Hee Haw TV show. Support this channel by having fun:
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[@lorenzogiani7190]

The dulcimer's routed out soundboard looks like a good idea for a travel ukulele

[@kennethlindahl9206]

my best friend when I was young is Roy Clark's nephew I got to meet the gentleman and he is the most talented man I have ever meet gota try that sitar trick looks like fun I say leave the basturd like it is the first guitar I made was literally a chunk of oak rough hewn and unsanded a cheap neck and tuners scrap pickup wired straight thru the buddy that I bummed the parts from played it for a while then wouldnt let me take it he still has it some 30 yrs later

[@wildrosegarage4208]

Loved the Sitar. Thought/hoped I was going to hear Norwegian Wood.

[@MickeyCuervo36]

The routed backs remind me of the way some traditional kanteles are made.

[@goshenguy]

The sitar sounds amazing! I’m really gonna have to get back into playing again.

[@castle5711]

Perfect for the Raga scale, Shane

[@toddjoseph1tj]

The sitar bridge sounds awesome!!!

[@davidspencer2333]

Fill the holes in the worthless guitar and hydro-dip paint the body with Stubby Slide black, white, and orange colors!

[@peterlarsen4809]

Hello Shane, You should make a paint lid resonator boat oar, with a box underneath to make a cb sitar.

[@Cheesus4jesus]

I've been experimenting with dulcimers and CBGs to get a sitar like sound. So I'm intrigued.

[@pacodogtule]

Cool

[@Wastelandman7000]

As for the routed soundboard on the plank, I'm thinking a Diddly Bo. And with it being a DB you could route the entire length. Also, I'm thinking of Tiny Guitars one piece mini-guitars. And if you found a 2x6 in oak you could make a one piece strum stick with a routed soundboard.

[@sydmarty1]

How about using two pieces of 1/4 inch solid wood and frame it with 1/2 by 1 pieces and glue it up. the whole thing would be hollow. I made a redwood baritone slide and it sounds great with just a pizzo pickup.

[@kenmiles4145]

Tahitian 8 string ukulele is similar in build to the dulcimer. I'd like to see you add a piezo to that.

[@timothy5974]

Hello Shane

[@laolla2555]

I wonder what would happen if you routed out the top instead of the bottom and straddled the bridge across the gap.

[@davidluck4608]

Auction your evening project for charity😇 and ……. How nice to hear imperial measurements again!

[@hurdygurdyguy1]

6:20... watching Ravi Shankar at a concert 15 or so years ago I was amazed at how far a melody string is bent (or actually pulled) to slide 2 or 3 intervals up to another note! The Hee Haw plank with the routed back reminds me of the Norwegian (?) Langelek (dubious spelling) which sometimes has a back and sometimes not but is played on a table for resonance... 11:35... injected plastic fretboard, so that's what gives it that horrible, cheesy novelty hokum Hee Haw hillbilly "this is just a junk toy" sound! 🤣 11:52 ... nope, it would be more Imus's Plastic Jesus on the Dasboard Of My Car! The strings are fastened to the violin tuners similarly on setars, dotars, baglamas ...

[@jedeckerd5969]

Shane that’s horrible you need my intervention… mail it to me for proper disposal… lol 😂

[@AbsintheOnYT]

Hey Shane, I don't have the HeeHaw plank, but I do have the Plickett which has a similar hollow under the bridge and strum area. I also have a completely solid plank dulcimer that I still have never seen another one of. I may have to duplicate it, and try hollowing the back. I am looking at making some dulcimers of different styles, I will be trying for the classic, but also want to try some cardboard bodies, but wondered, if there might be a good combination of cigar boxes that would be an effective sound box as well? I have not tried combining more than one cigar box before, any thing to watch out for?

[@ShaneSpeal]

I hope you film your instruments! Tag me if you do

[@AbsintheOnYT]

@@ShaneSpeal Thanks, sounds good! I just tagged you all over the place. :) Some here, and some on IG.

[@Wastelandman7000]

I'm betting if you set the plank on a cardboard box (like a keyboard box) with a couple of holes cut in it that it would be a LOT louder. A la Uncle Crow.

[@jim-brendasleeth2521]

The first thing that comes to what's left of my mind, would be making a plank Uke.

[@johnwashburn3793]

Rout both top and bottom for an archtop...

[@Dustypilgrim1]

How about a tagelharpa. ?

[@rodjones117]

Leave the worthless guitar as the grunge, pre-relic-ed, dirty little thing it is. It's grimy authenticity shines. Form a garage band where you only play this guitar through a Vox AC30.

[@jmikew417]

It would have been good if they would have also drilled sound holes on the side of the drilled out part

[@timothy5974]

Love the Chicken Mask

[@ShaneSpeal]

That was my son's homemade halloween mask from about 6 years ago. It's one of the characters he created for his comic books, Richard the Chicken

[@briansnoderly1850]

this needs a road worn/ distressed finish

[@voidmaelstrom]

That routing trick with the 'Hee-Haw' dulcimer? It's been used in a similar fashion on the Cook Island Ukulele (8-stringed, 4 courses) for a long, long time: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mJrFc3yjm9Jlobc

[@terryterrell686]

Leave the worthless guitar as it is - a partscaster

[@bearshield7138]

Steampunk it Steampunk it Steampunk the worthless guitar. Where dose one get a Sitar bridge? far freaking out

[@Wastelandman7000]

On the worthless piece of trash, I'd do the body and headstock in Ferrari red. And you could auction it off for charity or something.

[@wetdog1606]

I'm not very tech savy - I use KZbin and I really don't like the new 1 minute 'instagram; thingies format you've posted after this. I hope it's just a phase or that you will mix it up. Gitty Gang Show lost the plot for so many reasons - please don't join them or I'll be stuck with banjo players: and I like dirty blues = not dirty knees.

[@lorenzogiani7190]

Turn the worthless guitar into a worthless sitar! Why not?