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Comment by Warren on May 19, 2010 at 6:50am

Fantastic design AND playing! I'm envious - my soup can mic has wicked feedback unless run through a Behringer Shark.

Comment by smojo on November 26, 2009 at 3:52am

Cheers juju. I'm still working on a cbg to house your wonderful pick-up. I have to keep putting it on hold while I make more guitars for customers ! Bummer. I want it to be understated but a great little guitar. So far it's a plain old wooden box, nicely aged. I'm using an old hinge for a tailpiece (already tried one on another cbg). Gonna put frets on it (first time for me so need to practice on scrap first). It'll have a vol control with a plain white knob made from casing of a flourescent-light starter. The strap is a well-worn leather dog lead with a tartan pattern on one side (20p at a boot sale). I'm taking my time so it will be a good 'un and see what other ideas come up. cheers, smojo

Comment by JUJU on November 25, 2009 at 6:29am

Great job as always mate ...soundsgood to me :-) worth five of my stars anyday !
juju

Comment by smojo on November 25, 2009 at 5:54am

Thanks folks. Construction is quite simple. I drilled out a pattern of holes underneath for the "mouthpiece". Glued an old telephone earpiece inside the holes. Drill a hole in the side for the jack socket and simply wired the socket to the two terminals of the earpiece. The rubber surround over the holes is just an electricla grommet glues in place. No other elctronics involved. The sound quality is actually quite clean so I just added some O/D and a little reverb on my amp.

Comment by Jerryrig240 on November 24, 2009 at 11:18pm

Very awesome....I an sure I could figure it out, but how did you put it together...I think I am seeing my next build soon. That would cut back on me using a bunch of effects on my soon to be mic rig.

Comment by MrRandomWritings (Backwater Bri) on November 4, 2009 at 4:07am

lovely dirty sound you got there -hats are essential!

Comment by smojo on November 3, 2009 at 10:15pm

Thanks everyone. H.B. I dunno, I think suspenders and a bowler might add a bit of spice to the act. Yikes. Tres it was very simple. Hole cut in the bottom for the mouth opening, an old telephone earpiece glued to the inside and wired out to a 1/4 inch guitar jack socket. The reproduction was a little too good so I added a bit of O/D and reverb to the amp setting to fill out the sound.

Comment by HOLLOWBELLY on November 3, 2009 at 9:33pm

wicked tone.
Like the bowler-I reckon some braces would complete the look.(I think the yanks call 'em suspenders but I wouldn't recommend you wear them- heh heh heh! ;)

Comment by diamond dom on November 3, 2009 at 9:12pm

that's awesome brother,
im down with making instruments out of recycled parts :)
recession beating music
keep it up sir

Comment by Tres Seaver on November 3, 2009 at 10:42am

Cool! Any writeup / pix about the innards?