After viewing a couple of hundred pics of CBG builds I see that anything and everything has been built. Very inspiring.
So is it ok to use the ideas of other builders when building?
kentr
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Hi,
i can understand how using an idea seen here in the pics for your own use and build is not the same as using that same idea on a mass produced CBG
to sell to the public.
Since I not planing on selling any, i wont worry about having someone elses idea show up on one I build.
kentr
Inspiration is what makes evolution possible in musical instruments, but there's a fine line to stealing. It's usually when you start trying to mass produce other's designs for profit, that's when it's not? Simply put, lots of builders like to copy things others have done in the past because they know that it works?
Hi again, Kent,for one thing, this site is about sharing. Sharing what works and what does not, sharing what one has built and what will be built next. I think that the sharing of ideas furthers our quest for a better instrument. The sort of content has diminished over recent years.
I do not see it as a bad thing to use others' ideas, if it is shared. I have been building guitars since the mid-1970s. I have used the ideas of many, many fine builders, but never copied their instruments entirely, their ideas are an addition to my own. Often, I have used the ideas of others and found that they do not work for me, and file them away for a later time.
I could share a build process with you, and you would follow it faithfully, however, your guitar would sound and look different from mine. You may even add something I did not think of.
Often someone has said to me that's a good Idea, can I steal it? I don't mind, but it's nice to be asked.
Cheers Taff
It is impossible to not.