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Permalink Reply by Richey Kay on July 2, 2014 at 7:57pm

Interesting question Jabes. I fight a constant existential struggle between my love of new instruments to play and my loathing of clutter...

I've been making these for 13 months now, and I'm on build 22. Of those I've given away 5, sold 7 and kept my licence plate guitar, one 3 string and one 4 string CBG. All the rest have been scrapped for parts. The first guitar I built which I was pretty much totally happy with (and felt the quality was good enough to sell) was number 12.

Improvements tend to crop up on pretty much every build, and I am in the process of making a new 4 stringer which will replace my current one.

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Permalink Reply by Ron "Oily" Sprague on July 3, 2014 at 9:57pm

Iteresonatometaphorabhorificance. There. I've said it. Let those deny it who can. Toucan. Toucanjo. Hmm.

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Permalink Reply by Uncle John on July 4, 2014 at 2:18am

Ha!   I was going to count and then saw Phrygian's response.   Ditto. 

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Permalink Reply by Cause the Blue rat on July 4, 2014 at 3:35am

Only have two builds under my belt. Proud of both of them. Second build is sturdy but still needs a bit of tweaking. First build is in pieces right now. Needs a lot of work. Not going to give up on it. I'll either have a playable guitar or it'll fall apart from all my unskilled efforts to make it better.
I also have the Swamp Witch guitar I won at the CBG fest in St Louis and the four string guitar I bought there as well. Really like them both. Forget who the builders of the four stringer is. Bought a neck from them as well.

So I'd say I got three keepers and a hopeful.

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Permalink Reply by Chris Carlson on July 8, 2014 at 8:03am

Great discussion topic! I always keep at least one to see if I can improve on it with the next build.

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