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2 vs 4 string

Opinions, thoughts, I'm thinking out loud. To build a 2 or 4 stringer? Plan on it being fretted, but, oh which to choose? I'm in the process of building the box from old scrap, it's probably pine. Have a '61 liscense plate I want to use, instead of cigar box.
If I go 2 string should it be a bass? Or go 4 string for more depth? I really don't know, I've only done 3 stringers but want to build something a bit more different.
Don't know which way to lean.

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Permalink Reply by Fake8pe on June 29, 2016 at 6:43pm

I'm a bass player by nature and I like to keep the rhythm, so I'm leaning toward the 2 string. However, I was wanting to build a 2 string "chugger" with a dowel and fretless. But I've built too many fretless so far that I want to do fretted.
I have two separate packs of tuners, 3 in each set, one chrome and the other gold. Thought about mixing them but they're all righ-sided tuners. Looks silly miss-matched, IMO.
It's a shit or get off the pot situation.

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Permalink Reply by the anonymous pick on June 29, 2016 at 7:00pm

I vote for 2 , a power-chord work horse , fun as hell . wail on it without chance of open string ring and involuntary contact . an strum it like a sub-machine bow (gun) . ;-)

but .. dont take my word for it ;-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWXKffSLGlc

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Permalink Reply by JL on July 1, 2016 at 1:39am

stray comment from the peanut gallery: BUILD BOTH!

A pack of strings for a traditional guitar has 6 strings in them, 4 for 1 git, the leftover 2 for the other.

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Permalink Reply by Rob Todd on July 1, 2016 at 2:55am

Right answer!!!

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Permalink Reply by Lane Martin on July 1, 2016 at 3:38am

Maybe build a double-necked one...four strings on one neck, two on the other.

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Permalink Reply by Grandpa on July 1, 2016 at 5:13am

And there it is. The trap has been sprung, and Fake8pe, like so many innocents before him, has willingly crossed the threshold. What appeared to be harmless fun, maybe a trendy pursuit "just on the weekend", and soon the sharp talons of the dark obsession will have him firmly in a grip of his own making. It's not too late to avoid the seductive lure of cbg building, yet I fear that for you, too, all hope is already lost. Alas, the intransigent hooks of wood and strings will have claimed another. Brothers and sisters, for Fake8pe we can say only.....Welcome!