TNM Guitars doing something new and different

[TerryTNM]

Thanks all for your kinds words and acceptance of my guitars and work in the past. It's much appreciated.



I've started on a new project that first began with the building of a personal guitar I called the M-5 (above). Kind of a shrunk down outline of
the Gibson L-5 classic archtop. Now I'm working on a new one named the M-5se, refining the look and function. I've been fascinated and
curious about the piezo active pickup system that has found it's way into guitars other than "O' hole acoustics. The plan is to use both
a conventional magnetic pickup, in this case a single neck position custom shop Seymour Duncan "Staple P-90". It's more akin to the
old DeArmond 'Dyna-sonic' moveable slug magnet pickup than to the standard single coil P-90, and then adding the L. R. Baggs Piezo
tune-o-matic bridge with it's active pre-amp and piezo/magnetic on-board mixing circuitry. I'm going into uncharted territory here but
find it exciting business. It looks like the piezo technology is spreading . . . quite rapidly. With the piezo you could have your guitar sound like an organ or
saxophone or darn near anything else. But mostly you can dial in just about any shade of guitar tone you want.

Picture shows the all new head stock and inlay design, fingerboard with cloud inlays. Also the Sperzel locking tuners, the "Staple P-90" and a roughed out
violin tailpiece. I'll post from time to time on the progress. The body will be next.


Thanks for looking - Terry

[MWaldorf]

wow. I look forward to seeing this one come together!

[Sarah93003]

Amen! This is going to be another stunning build. I can already feel it! Woo-hoo!

[olrocknroller]

A musician friend of mine brought me his Tele, and a Roland pickup system, which is similar in ways to the under-bridge system. I installed them, milling a slot into the ashtray behind the bridge pickup for him, and about a year later, he brought me a song he had recorded with piano, sax, etc...all recorded using this pickup system on the Tele. Yes, guitars are going places we could never have imagined, and for the real artists of the world, it certainly expands their musical horizons. Good luck with the build... Even your prototypes look fantastic!