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As a semi-newbie here, I think the question can be mapped onto a couple of concerns:
- If I go down to HD / Lowes / TruValue and spend money, will I feel I have wasted it when the project is done?
- If I try using something unusual, will it break the design? If so, do I have the skills / tools to fix it?
- Will people laugh at my POS when I'm done?
Not everybody gets a rush from the "oh $#17" moment, even knowing that it may lead (after some agony) to "Aha!".
Maybe the best thing we can do is to articulate the ethic / aesthetic ("No rules, its OK to make mistakes, we'll help you fix it if we can") and then offer as much positive encouragement as possible to "just start making sawdust."
As a semi-newbie here, I think the question can be mapped onto a couple of concerns:
- If I go down to HD / Lowes / TruValue and spend money, will I feel I have wasted it when the project is done?
- If I try using something unusual, will it break the design? If so, do I have the skills / tools to fix it?
- Will people laugh at my POS when I'm done?
Not everybody gets a rush from the "oh $#17" moment, even knowing that it may lead (after some agony) to "Aha!".
Maybe the best thing we can do is to articulate the ethic / aesthetic ("No rules, its OK to make mistakes, we'll help you fix it if we can") and then offer as much positive encouragement as possible to "just start making sawdust."
Tres,
You can build a perfectly acceptable CBG that will play some nice blues/folk/rock/gospel... etc. with off the shelf materials from Lowes, Home Depot, etc, plus the cheapest strings you can buy, some recycle tuners from your local guitar repair guy's scrap box and a couple of bolts for bridge and nut.....and any cigar box you can get your hands on (I'd recommend a minimum 5 X 8 X 1 1/2 but have build playable CBGs under these minimums)
Beyond this, relax and learn as you go. The more you build, the more you will develop an intuitive sense about what to do to get a certain sound. The more you move away from an acoustic instrument, the less important box size, etc. is and the more important the setup of your electronic compoenents are.....
Just have fun, ask questions, those who want to help will, but... in the long run you're going to have to convince yourself that any of the advice you get was good or not by... building....
the best,
Wichita SAm
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