I have seen so many different guitar styles since joining this site. I dunno if its been asked before, but my question is this;

Other than a requested design, what makes you build that particular build? Do you ask for design ideas?

Do you build around box? Do you design and build your own box? Do you build the same ones over and over or do you build something different each time?

Here's my take. So far I built my first one with the idea of using an old doublehumbucker I had "laying" around. Having already purchased a random collection of ten boxes, I looked at each box and saw an idea.

Some became guitars, some amps. 

I personally build around an idea that pops into my head. Once there, I have to create it. 

The most recent is called Frog's Leg's (Blues Frog that is..) 

I had a build idea, which I decided to double and call the twins. 

The resulting long winded story, ends in me me coming up with what I call "Frog's Legs"  

When I get seriously into something, it doesn't shut off when I go to sleep. I have solved many an"issue" in my sleep. With this set of guitars, the design also came while I slept. Can't say its the best idea, but "Frogs Legs" became the design.

So this is what the idea became. I've finished the first one, and will finish the second one soon. It's a twin to the first, but each will have their own sound.

So, what makes you build what you build. Share the idea behind one of your designs, and how it came to be.

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I've only built two. One was inspired by a combination of a rusty truck and the old Tiesco guitars. The other by 1950's rat rods. Neither out of a cigar box. I have two designs I've been toying with. One inspired by my love for really bad sci-fi movies. The other by a comic book I collected as a kid. 'Man-Thing'. Something about a mindless, thoughtless murdering soulless monster spoke to me. Pure inspiration for this pre adolescent developing mind. : ) Bot of these will have cigar box bodies. With  electric guitar pickups.

I like seeing more of the folk art guitars on this site. Like your frog Blues Frog. These guitars say more about the builder than the boxes they are made from. 

I would really like to see what becomes of the "Man-Thing" idea, Cause. I know I have more ideas than time or even parts, but that won't stop me...

I'm looking forward to finishing the second frog leg when I get back from vacation, because I want to see if it sounds any different than the first.

I like the term folk art, it speaks of the artistic work of the builder, and it can also mean the style of music you play with it.....

The Man-Thing guitar is going to feature a reprinted comic book cover and reprinted pages on all sides. Kind of an homage to a favorite comic. I have to get all this from the net. Unfortunately I no longer have these comic books. 

Good stuff Way. Interesting bout the diff sound from two identical builds. With my 3rd build just about done, I decided to get back to just a flat stick thru instead of the half round neck I was doin. Just to see if it sounded better. I believe it does to my ears anyhow. But what got me the most was the 'feel' I got thru that neck. Feels so different to the half rounds I have done and a regular guitar. I never expected to have a feel that went right thru me. It's the most thought out build I've done, but even then I had a prob come up that needed fixin. Thatz what I like. You can stuff up and correct it, and that corrected stuff up gives the build a little character. CBG quirks. Yes please. Cheers. Jonno

I too want to see if the two sound the same, but I also am toying with the idea of using different strings and tuning, just to see how different they sound.

What to do, what to do?

You are Evil!

"No he's not. Shut Up!"

You stay out of this! 

It starts with an idea, usually centered on a "Thing".  sometimes its the box, sometimes its looking at the narrow side of a 1x2 for a 2 stringer to get fancy with shaping the neck, one time it was using pegs instead of machines for the tuners.  I just finished a stomp box inspired by a busted set of headphones.  A large tuna can is sitting on my worktable calling out all kinds of ideas right now...

and the end product is never exactly the idea I started with, it evolves with a mind of its own...

That's why I could never draw up plans for a build, because its never quite the same as how it started in my mind.

Too many personalities in my head trying to build the same git....

That's ok! It's a plan not a recipe.
All my work goes through a couple rinse cycles before it comes out.
I've done a lot of plans, but it always takes on a life of there own...

Busted headphones as a stomp box. Nice one. It reminded me that when I was a kid I used a speaker as a microphone, you had to shout right into it to get any signal but it worked.

I wonder what would happen if you built the bridge right into the coil. 

I did the same thing when I built my stomp box. It works, but the fce of the box was a little too thick so I changed out to a piezo disc so I could pick up the sound better. But if you keep the face thin, an old headphone speaker works well as the pickup.

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