NGD (for my daughter) - Mini Pink Paisley

PVO_Dave

Bought a mini T kit from Stewmac whilst on offer at the start of the year, some months of torment for Rich ( @lamf68 ) later it's now together and short of some final tweaks it's finished  

Here it is:









It's much smaller than a 3/4 size, here it is with my 6 year old daughter



Build thread is in the Making and Modding section

Dave. 

dazzajl

That is just fantastic, what a great job. She looks amazing with it too. 

merlin

PVO_Dave said:

It's much smaller than a 3/4 size, here it is with my 6 year old daughter



Build thread is in the Making and Modding section

Dave. 

She's a sweetheart and she looks well chuffed with it! 
What a proper dad you are! 

darcym

this is as close to perfect as it can be.

rocktron

My neighbour bought an Guitar, Amp, and Accessries Pack for her daughter for Christmas. She opted for a small bodied full size guitar. The little girl is tall for her age, and takes lessons at school.

She didn't ask for my advice, and I didn't see what she purchased due to the present being hidden away for the big day. I gathered that the music teacher advised her what to buy.

I think my neighbour's kid would be very jealous of your daughter's Paisley guitar. It is very attractive!!! 

What strings, and tuning did you use?

Stratavarious

Nice! 

I want a pink paisley mini-tele strung as a mandolin now!  

drofluf

Stratavarious said:

Nice! 

I want a pink paisley mini-tele strung as a mandolin now!  

Not pink but why not go the whole hog and get one of these: https://eastwoodguitars.com/products/mandocaster

There’s also a Thoman version at a third the price but you may need to do some work on it if your experience is like mine. 

portobear_65

That looks awesome! 

Mudcrutch

Absolutely brilliant picture.
I hope your daughter will keep that guitar for the rest of her life because it’s special.
My first guitar I couldn’t get my arm over and my first bike my feet didn’t touch the pedals for almost a year.
My father had this this thing about growing into everything and getting maximum use out of it.

DrJazzTap

That is awesome!

ennspek

Fantastic. I hope you both enjoy!

Moominpapa

Happy daughter & proud dad = awesome.

PVO_Dave

rocktron said:

My neighbour bought an Guitar, Amp, and Accessries Pack for her daughter for Christmas. She opted for a small bodied full size guitar. The little girl is tall for her age, and takes lessons at school.

She didn't ask for my advice, and I didn't see what she purchased due to the present being hidden away for the big day. I gathered that the music teacher advised her what to buy.

I think my neighbour's kid would be very jealous of your daughter's Paisley guitar. It is very attractive!!! 

What strings, and tuning did you use?

Thanks, standard D'Addario 10's, tuned to A, E was unplayable  

Mudcrutch said:

Absolutely brilliant picture.
I hope your daughter will keep that guitar for the rest of her life because it’s special.
My first guitar I couldn’t get my arm over and my first bike my feet didn’t touch the pedals for almost a year.
My father had this this thing about growing into everything and getting maximum use out of it.

Hopefully it'll be something she appreciates as she gets older and is too big for it, then there's a 3/4 Strat and a full size Hello Kitty Squier strat too  

PVO_Dave

Thanks everyone for the lovely comments, hoping this just drives a small amount of interest in picking up the guitar and playing with it, I've said if she does want to properly learn I'll buy her a small amp. 

Hoping to put her YouTube time to good use (limited on the iPad, they get obsessed) with some guitar lessons on there, happy to pay for a proper tutor if she's keen once we get out of this corona world (I'd rather it was done right with theory etc.. rather than my bungling through it approach). 

For scale, here's how this roughly stands next to my full size Pink Paisley 

usedtobe

That’s awesome!

jdgm

Thankyou for some good and uplifting news.

Looks like a lovely instrument too. I've got to save the shot of both above. Superb!

Happy Xmas and new year.

normula1

Awesome job

lovestrat74

Sweet 

stonevibe

That is beyond brilliant! Such a sweet guitar.

PVO_Dave

Thought I had better finally get this intonated so it can be played, found out just how crap the bridge hardware was. 

Lucky my local tech had a spare for not much money (was a relic'd one, so I'll order a Wilkinson compensated one at some point to get it back to shiny and new looking. 

It's fun to play though  

munckee

Looks and sounds awesome. I just bought my daughter a black star fly for her room (she normally uses my THR or super champ x 2) so she has a battery job for her room. Can get some decent sounds out of it.