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Home made Cedar box, Birds Eye Maple top. 11.5" X 9.5" X 3.5". Oak neck and Oak fretboard. Sounds good acoustically, but I also have a piezo. Home made fake cigar box label. 4 string, open G tuning. Built on my sailboat.
I had a chip in the wood of this guitar right at the corner. It was making me crazy and was in a spot that would be very difficult to do a decent job of filling. I finally decided to put decorative corners on. I am happy with the results. Maybe chrome would have been better, but brass is what I had.
Good points, thanks for the reality report from another angle. Its good to know the range of possibilities that might just happen. I will keep this in mind. Thanks, will evaluate if its do-able and under what conditions will it happen. :)
Skill learning is different for each learner. I am a point and grunt learner. I need a teacher and examples in front of me and plenty of "do-overs". Some can learn off videos. I'm not so good at that. Some can sit in an empty room with a picture and get it done.
At then start of the "revolution" there were few people will to share learning, skills and advice. Shane Speal and Ted Crocker got me over the hump. Now there is a flood of teaching/learning resources. I done several workshops and demonstration builds. Always lots of fun.
Best thing to tell a new builder or player is keep at it. You'll get there.!!!
Hello Lenny Henderson:
Do you have a sample of the flute that you made? Could I see it?
Thanks in advance.
Hello Lenny Henderson:
Thanks for the information. The group who asked me to teach this - adults - doesnt want me to see their existing skills - I asked them to show me any object made by this group just to see an example of their maker skills. They say, they are very "smart" - if I cannot see what level of skills they already have, I think I must be prepared that the skill might be zero. :) It took me one week to do my own first guitar (acoustic) - I imagine maybe it will take at least a month or 6 wks for people without experience?
I have taught 10-12 year olds to make flutes that take me 30 minutes to make and it takes 3-4 hours for a group of 6-8. I have to do some of the work for some of them and detailed slow demo is also needed for all. I imagine guitars with a lot of work done already would take more time. I think about 16 would be half the time as I have taught Varsity Scouts the flutes in 45 minutes or more.
Hello, dear makers of cdg, can anybody tell me, if I were to teach a group of no experience kids no woodwork experienece - a simple 3 string guitar - how to estimate the time needed to make a simple basic 3 string guitar? Thanks in advance. Lovely group!
Yes ... I also would like to see a 4 string version !!!
I like that chart. Will there be a 4 string version coming out in the furure?
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