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3 or 4 String License Plate Guitar?

Posted by Hal Robertson on November 16, 2016 at 12:22am in Building Secrets, Tips, Advice, Discussion

So far, I've built around a dozen CBGs - all 3-stringers. With my recent ukelele build, I've kinda got the 4-string bug... maybe.

Snagged a couple of good license plates over the weekend and planning to build a guitar with at least one of them. This will be a mag pickup (probably hand-made thinbucker), fretted with a floating bridge. Nothing too revolutionary.

Any opinions out there on whether the 4th string is worth my time? Seems like it might be kinda cool for slide stuff, but I'll have to rework my chord knowledge a bit - what little there is :-) Still more builder than player.

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  • Hal Robertson November 16, 2016 at 9:31am

    Sounds like a plan then! Making some sawdust today. Guess I'd better put a Gitty order together...:-)

  • the anonymous pick November 16, 2016 at 3:15am

    "Snagged a couple of good license plates "  ....  then  build both a 3 and a 4 . dilemma / questions  will  be solved / realized for you  ;-)

    • Lane Martin > the anonymous pick November 16, 2016 at 12:32pm

      Right on. We're encouraging AND enablers. :)

    • JL > the anonymous pick November 16, 2016 at 7:27am

      second

  • John Sawyer November 16, 2016 at 1:50am

    I've built mostly 3 strings, and a couple 4's.  Personally, I like the simplicity, but if you listen to a 4, there's a bit more complexity to the chord...  I say go for it... you won't be satisfied until you do. . .   there will always be that nagging question . . . 

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