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ODIN Viking Chugger CBG

Posted by Doug Thorsvik on July 24, 2024 at 3:05pm

Got three of these boxes off eBay years ago. The inspiration finally arrived to use one! There is no wood on this guitar. The box is vintage cardboard. All nonmetal components are 3D printed. The 2-piece neck is printed with Carbon Fiber infused PLA and has a 12" carbon Fiber rod inserted for stability. 20.5" scale length with the 5 (A) and 4 (D) strings from a classical guitar set (bought individually). Disc piezo pickup. The ribs on the lower wing are intended to stabilize the guitar on my leg and they work! (Lesson learned from the last version of these wings.) The Kluson locking tuners are really smooth.

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  • Doug Thorsvik July 29, 2024 at 1:12pm

    Glad to hear it Kale! Since Thorsvik is Norwegian and my grandparents immigrated from Norway, it was a box I had to have when I saw it. I waited till I could build a guitar worthy of the box, and this may be as close as I can get!

  • Poorness Studios July 29, 2024 at 10:08am

    LOVE IT DOUG!!!

  • Doug Thorsvik July 28, 2024 at 2:44pm

    Thanks for the high praise Uncle John! It does have that electric guitar look with a quasi mandolin style horn.

  • Uncle John July 28, 2024 at 2:00pm

    Beautiful.  Great looking lefty.  The electric guitar body type box extensions look great here.

  • Doug Thorsvik July 26, 2024 at 11:27am

    Thanks Jonathan! It seems like every lefty guitar I build is a test guitar; I always have something to test out.

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      • Doug Thorsvik July 26, 2024 at 11:46am

        I started playing guitar right handed. Did not go so well. My buddy Eric at college who was teaching me to play remembered I was left handed and decided to reverse the strings. It made a huge difference in the rate of my progress. There is a reason right handed guitars are oriented the way they are.

  • Doug Thorsvik July 25, 2024 at 8:09pm

    Thanks Alan; glad you liked this one! It is a lefty and a test guitar. I am wear testing some classical guitar strings, so it will be my go to CBG for a while.

  • AGP # July 25, 2024 at 7:45pm

    "Sweeeeeet Doug" looked a bit back to front at first look, but then remembered your a Lefty laughing

  • Doug Thorsvik July 25, 2024 at 11:32am

    This one is definitely fun to play BrianQ! Actually, the wings weren't part of the original plan. The first string up did not go well: action was too high as was the string tension on a new brand of strings, Not great playability. So ... I shortened the scale length by 1.5" (two frets) and reprinted a shorter neck and decided to update the wings for this box size. Well worth all the extra time,effort, and plastic.

  • BrianQ. July 25, 2024 at 1:45am

    Nice!!! You lefty's sure know how to have funlaughing Love the curly upper bout, I bet it's light?

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