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Permalink Reply by the anonymous pick on June 9, 2013 at 9:34pm

pretty  nice lookin  guits  man  ;-)

 

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Permalink Reply by Randy S. Bretz on June 9, 2013 at 10:38pm

The market is flooded right now with fret less builds, just go on ebay [ cigar box guitars ] pages and pages of builds.

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Permalink Reply by the anonymous pick on June 10, 2013 at 12:39am

yeah  ..  but  his  price  is  right  .   ;-)

weird  thing  is  ..  my  sliders sell  better than  my  fretted  models  .. and    im  not alone  in  saying that .

the  old timers  and traditionalists seem  to  go  for the   sliders   or  fretless   (its  not like you could  order  frets  online    in  the   30's depression  era    etc  )   and  the  newbies    or  beginners   that cant   play  regular  guitar  well    get  into  cbgs  for that reason  and  prefer sliders     also  .

a year ago  i  would have  bet  on  the  fretted  ones   selling  better  ,,  thats why  i  added  them  .. 

im actually  thinking  of discontinuing  my  fretted models   at this  point  .  

 

 

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Permalink Reply by Randy S. Bretz on June 10, 2013 at 1:08am

Well you have Shane Speal, Ted Crocker, and a host of others cranking out production fret less builds right now. It`s actually a price war to see who will go the lowest...lol. I agree Pick more newbies will go with a fret less " slider " usually as a first try at a cigar box guitar. Of coarse there are the exceptions like builders like yourself who are doing a fret less build that's easy to play and still retain a killer look. Then when one adds electric`s to the build that also makes them stand apart from the simple fret less build. As a builder of mostly fretted guits with the right action one can have the best of both worlds....slider with frets.

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Permalink Reply by the anonymous pick on June 10, 2013 at 2:01am

yup       my  fretted   models were  exactly  that .. set  up  for slide and fretting  .. and fully  adjustable        action   if you wanted to  go  one  way or the other  permanently  .  .  hence  my  surprise when the    fretless still  sold  better . 

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Permalink Reply by colin mcgrath on June 10, 2013 at 3:47am

I think I will just charge the shipping fee. Lol, heavy price war out there by folks with more build time than I have.

Lots of folks were intrigued by my amp converted radio at the St. Louis fest. Maybe a package deal should be considered.

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Permalink Reply by Slowpaw Steve T on June 10, 2013 at 2:24am

i may try building one or two  "budget" fretless acoustic models and see how they go, knock off £40 on electrics and hardware though a large part of my build budget is time! (-;

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Permalink Reply by Ron "Oily" Sprague on June 10, 2013 at 3:05am

Your sliders sell better than fretted because you don't have ME playin' em...LOL.ha, that works both ways!
>:-E

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Permalink Reply by the anonymous pick on June 10, 2013 at 3:22am

lol,  .. oily  ..  i  doubt  that,   .  bobby  pin  sales   prices   have   soared    cause  of  you  ;-)

 

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Permalink Reply by Bad Finger (Eric) on June 10, 2013 at 2:14am

Pretty nice builds.  Only thing I would recommend is doing something to keep the strings from cutting into the neck on the tail end.  It is tough to keep a guitar in tune when the strings slowly cut the neck wood.  I like to use a piece of fret wire placed right at the string holes.  Very effective, nicely aesthetic and it helps your confidence about fretting should you choose to make guitars that way at some point.

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Permalink Reply by the anonymous pick on June 10, 2013 at 2:17am

agreed  ..  the   eye sleaves     off a  pop  rivet  work  well  too .

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Permalink Reply by Slowpaw Steve T on June 10, 2013 at 2:25am

i use pop rivets for tail ends, they're cheap and work great! (-:

nice builds, Shawn!

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