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Permalink Reply by Roosterman on October 15, 2009 at 10:08pm

Nope, but it makes sense!
I guess some of the guys must have done this, especially with license plate builds where its more difficult to put soundholes on the front.
Some o those soundholes are real nice by the way!!

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Permalink Reply by Diydc on October 15, 2009 at 11:22pm

that is a great idea when doing acoustic stuff.
will check chance of doing a nice design as in the refered link.
Thanks for the tip.

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Permalink Reply by Wray on October 15, 2009 at 11:43pm

I've never seen that idea before, but it does make sense. I might try that on the acoustic/electric CB bass thats in the planning stage, do my own before & after test. Thanks for the tip

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Permalink Reply by Brian Lemin on October 16, 2009 at 1:48am

I have written an article about the value of these for CBGs. You can download it as it is in PDF form. I am all for them. The design is purely aesthetic, in theory the position should be high in the bouts, (Like the top "corner")

It is found under the discussion "Wot! No articles.

It is under a discussion about position of sound holes about page 4 of that discussion.

I think this URL will get you to the discussion start page. If not search on Forums for Wot.

http://www.cigarboxnation.com/forum/topics/wot-no-articles?id=25926...

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Permalink Reply by rodney fruits on October 24, 2009 at 5:42pm

if you like the look of yur box and dont want to put holes in the top, try this. it looks cool and sounds great.

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Permalink Reply by Ponkster on October 24, 2009 at 9:19pm

It works good - I have used the method in box guitars and have also put front facing sound holes in hollow lap steels such as my 'old hollow legs'

this is a pic of a guitar with a top sound hole
http://www.cigarboxnation.com/photo/slim-jim-close?context=user

this is of old hollow legs
http://www.cigarboxnation.com/photo/slim-jim-close?context=user

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Permalink Reply by JUJU on October 24, 2009 at 11:29pm

i'm sure Bigdaddy Darren Dukes has done this before on his licence plate resos (as Ben mentioned ) - i can now see why the guitar always sounds better when you give it someone else to play - besides them been a better player lol!
juju.

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Permalink Reply by Paul Doug on October 25, 2009 at 2:41am

HUH? Both pictures look the same to me!?

Ponkster said:

It works good - I have used the method in box guitars and have also put front facing sound holes in hollow lap steels such as my 'old hollow legs'

this is a pic of a guitar with a top sound hole
http://www.cigarboxnation.com/photo/slim-jim-close?context=user

this is of old hollow legs
http://www.cigarboxnation.com/photo/slim-jim-close?context=user

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Permalink Reply by Lou on October 25, 2009 at 4:57am

Nice use of sound ports here I'd say,.....

http://www.cigarboxnation.com/photo/sound-ports-1?context=latest

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Permalink Reply by paul @ huckleberry guitar on October 25, 2009 at 3:58pm

I just put one in my last build yesterday as the sound holes on the front of the cbg had to be small due to the design. Opened it up nicely.

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Permalink Reply by rodney fruits on October 25, 2009 at 4:17pm

good job Paul. a hole in the side of that build should give you more volume.

paul @ huckleberry guitar said:

I just put one in my last build yesterday as the sound holes on the front of the cbg had to be small due to the design. Opened it up nicely.

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Permalink Reply by Michael Melonhead on October 28, 2009 at 2:51am

I used sound ports on my last build and it worked out just fine,plus it saved the good looks of the top of the box.

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