This project started with an old lid from a copper pot I found in the back of a moving van a couple of years ago. Someone out there has an incomplete cookware set, but I have a reso CBG, so all to the greater good.
As I started the build I was intrigued with the color so decided to add a brushed copper WickedBucker which aside from looking great, I knew would sound amazing. Hunting through the house with my CBG builder's eye in "Locate Mode" I realized there wasn't a lot of copper I could reap without calling a plumber so I added a couple of pennies in to the sound holes.
I was a little iffy on the pennies, so when I asked my wife what she thought about them, she said "You're always sticking your two cents in where it doesn't belong, this time I can deal". Immediately got out the glue and permanently attached the pennies to the guitar.
The "My 2 Cents" guitar is made from a Jaime Garcia My Father box and an oak neck. The cedar insert that came with the box was laminated on to the headstock masking the scarf joint and shaped with "The Shark" C.B. Gitty headstock shape template. The copper lid resonator gives the guitar a slight distortion effect with good reverb. Lastly, the pennies are dated 1999 and 2007, the years my kids were born, so I sometimes jokingly tell them the guitar is named "Penny Dreadful". My daughter gives me the "whatever" look that only an 11 year old can and my son just picks up the guitar and plays it better than I do ending the conversation.
Kids, what are you gonna do?