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"Traditional vs New Fangled"

Posted by Blues Frog on December 16, 2015 at 10:43pm in Building Secrets, Tips, Advice, Discussion

OK so it seems that Wayfinder started something that may have started something that didn't set well with everyone.

So I submit to you, I challenge you to a comparison photo dicussion.

Post your photos of of your most "down to basics" CBG and also your best built "New Fangled" CBG and then let the comments come in.

Give us the description of how each was built, and how you feel it sounds, in your own opinion. If you have a video of the git being played post that as well.

There are only TWO Rules.

Rule # 1. Post only photos and videos of your own builds.

Rule # 2. There are no rules on what's considered "grass roots" or "New Fangled"

Now, Let the fun begin.......

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  • Tom T January 4, 2016 at 6:49pm

    I think the most basic build would be Build 1: A three string slider with a piezo pickup.

    306516670?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024The Punch box is large and all wood. It resonates well and sounds good with just the piezo and a tone control.

    The most "new fangled" build would depend on your definition of New Fangled. The most complex build to date is a traditional 0 sized resonator. It involved steaming and bending wood, making a sound well and figuring out how to get a box baffled correctly. If that's New Fangled, then it qualifies.

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    • Michael Fred Johnson > Tom T May 30, 2016 at 10:40am

      Going through some old emails I rediscovered this,that reso is gorgeous 

    • Blues Frog > Tom T January 4, 2016 at 9:19pm

      I will accept #2 as new fangled. Very nice looking git.

      I like the basic as well. Thanks for joining the discussion

      • Tom T > Blues Frog January 5, 2016 at 6:58am

        Thanks.

        The basic is still a favorite player...........

  • Bad Finger (Eric) January 3, 2016 at 10:46am

    I'll play.  

    I've made simpler guitars, but this one best represents my "traditional" take while offering a lot of guitar.  I called this one "The Old Hand" and it had very simple construction using a Padron box, an original Flatpup, and a Mojobone rod piezo bridge.  I used tacks to guide the strings over a zero fret.1012976_554008531369291_5723624298188818382_n.jpg?oh=5ce1fe1419ea0b5f67c867ff90694fb8&oe=57480B9C

    Here's my most advanced, new fangled thing.  And maybe that label doesn't fit.  I guess it isn't much different on the inside.  A Thinbucker pickup and Mojobone Works rod piezo biscuit.  This one has a Lowe Cone for the resonator.  I didn't bother with a switch on this one and opted for independent pickup jacks.  However, there was a lot more precision in the construction and set up.  I love playing this guitar acoustic and plugged in.

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    I only build the guitars I want to make and only listen to what's in my head when I want to make them.  It makes me a commercial failure, but I'm only doing this for me anyway.

    • Blues Frog > Bad Finger (Eric) January 3, 2016 at 2:44pm

      I like em both. I also only build what I want and when I want. If I wind up selling them, people are gonna have to want to buy something "different", cause that's what I make.

      • Thomas "Duck" Petry > Blues Frog January 3, 2016 at 3:46pm

        I'm with you on that Frog. What I build is what I want to build.  The few that I have built for specific people have been done "as I felt like building them", not to any requested build.  The specific request from my first "contracted build" was that I build it how I wanted to with no design criteria other than they preferred a "pretty box".

        • Blues Frog > Thomas "Duck" Petry January 3, 2016 at 8:11pm

          My guitars are like me, One of A Kind.....

  • Wayne Avery December 19, 2015 at 3:03pm

    It seems to me that if the people from the good old day's had access to what we do now they would have used it to. To try and set rules and define what a Cigar Box Guitar is old school or new is just going to cause a lot of indigestion.  My definition of a Cigar Box Guitar.  FUN & SATISFYING and who cares how it's made.

    Anything I can put together that makes music even half decently is kind of a personal miracle and that is great for the soul.  When you get down to it that's why the original cigar box guitars were made.  So people could have a little music for the soul during some very hard times.  

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