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first try....gettin ready

Posted by Uncle Pauly, Shanty Box Guitars on October 7, 2009 at 8:29pm
O.K.....since my intro the other week I've been scouring this site and the net for inspiration. Lots of cool stuff, ideas, tricks. I have however realized my initial inspiration of sea chanties and odd hill music is all I need. Primitive is the operative word. Raw, simple, foundationary music to back up my wails, bellows, chants and such. Some say, I can sing. Some say I should not. I have a few more bits to assemble before I start construction. I can almost hear the haunting drone. Here is the scenario.... I am alone at sea with my cigar boxes and some crap. No power tools. I may have eaten my shipmates, I cannot say.. The sirens call, but I listen not. Shut your pie holes foul harpies, I am building my instrument, when I am done you will know.. Whatever the hell this all means...I don't know. Do you? Imagine if I still drank how f@*&ed up this would be. Uncle P

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  • Wes "I'm Baaaaack" Yates October 26, 2009 at 6:36am
    Put this to a minor key.
  • Uncle Pauly, Shanty Box Guitars October 25, 2009 at 7:43pm
    Just strung er up. Sounds pretty cool!!! Pics soon. Only used hand tools (love that spokeshave!), except for the holes on the head stock. Tried three times to get them right, then succumbed to the allure of electricity.

    Second one is half done already! Should I go three or four string? Why?

    Thanks for all the pics, advice, info and good will!!

    Say Uncle
  • Josh Gayou (SmokehouseGuitars) October 8, 2009 at 12:00am
    You're gonna have to get some hemp rope and wrap it around the box somehow.
  • HENRY LOWMAN October 7, 2009 at 11:18pm
    Call me Ishmael...
  • Mortimer Snerd October 7, 2009 at 10:02pm
    I am alone at sea with my cigar boxes and some crap. No power tools. I may have eaten my shipmates, I cannot say..
    The sirens call, but I listen not. Shut your pie holes foul harpies, I am building my instrument, when I am done you will know..


    There you go, your first song, just add music. You just proved that to make CBG songs, all you need are a few lucidity spasms.
  • Brendan deVallance October 7, 2009 at 9:05pm
    " Some say, I can sing. Some say I should not. " That would look good etched into the back of the guitar. And Good Luck.
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