I've currently got a hardboard cigar box git that I'm playing, and sustain is not that great, and highs are not that great either, but when I run it through an effects processor, not that bad.
I've started on a hand built wooden box, 1/4" birch ply walls, 1/8" birch ply back, haven't put the front on yet.
I'm wondering about the benefits of thick walls with thin sound boards. Say, 1/2" to 3/4" walls.
Of those of you who have done all three (hardboard, thin wall, thick wall), what are the benefits and drawbacks to each approach.
I'm going to assume that the thick wall, thin soundboard will sort of give the best of everything, but, I don't know.
I sometimes get the answer to a question as "build it and find out", and this definitely has its plus points, I can see that. This is fine if I had my own man cave with equipment that would let me whip stuff out, but, I'm limited in time and equipment. So, for the time being, looking for the voice of experience from others.
Thanks.
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Hi David,
Your box made of thin wood should make for a nice sounding sound box, especially if you use something like 2mm plywood veneer for the soundboard. The various instrument I have built using cherry trim wood for the neck, headstock and the walls of the sound box, coupled with the the 2mm plywood veneer I use for the sound board and the back board have resulted in instruments that consistently sound richer with longer resonance as compared to the other cigar box based instruments that I have built. I feel that ruggedly constructed boxes are less likely to sound good without pickups, amplifiers and sound-effect boxes. Most of the rugged-ized box instruments I've seen had either piezo- or magnetic pickups (pups).
-Rand.
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