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Permalink Reply by Dan Sleep on July 15, 2014 at 7:19am

Nice!!

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Permalink Reply by Chad McMillin on July 15, 2014 at 7:24am

thanks Dan - this scoop may be a standard for me moving forward. i need to post a clip, this thing is super loud.

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Permalink Reply by Dan Sleep on July 15, 2014 at 7:42am

If it works, go with it!!!

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Permalink Reply by Slowpaw Steve T on July 15, 2014 at 8:21am

Any idea is a good one and worth trying, we do it all the time, I've done a lot of experiments and came to the conclusion that a resonant lid is just the beginning - if the bridge and neck are rigid and have minimum mass the resonance goes through the whole guitar not just the box. 

The idea of sound holes is to let the sound reveal its character and volume, without holes the sound will be muffled, any modification to sound holes will alter the sound, much like adjustments on a graphic equaliser, but not change the   overall character. The Cohiba boxes are renowned for their resonance, volume and character, try the same idea with different boxes.

Keep up the experiments! interested to hear how they sound (-:

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Permalink Reply by Chad McMillin on July 15, 2014 at 8:58am

oh i will, no doubt. i'm hooked on these builds pretty heavy.......lol. this was just the fourth of many to come.

thanks for the feedback friend.  Great tunes  by the way!

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Permalink Reply by Randy S. Bretz on July 15, 2014 at 4:03pm

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Permalink Reply by Chad McMillin on July 16, 2014 at 1:23am

thats awesome randy!

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Permalink Reply by Richey Kay on July 15, 2014 at 8:19pm

Very cool Chad - nice idea and thanks for taking the time to point it out to me! Don't get me wrong though  I have nothing against sound holes, I just don't tend to use them as most of my builds use magnetic pickups - they tend to be plenty loud for unplugged practice without as well. 

The way I look at it is that the volume is tied to the size of the soundboard, its ability to vibrate and the tension of the strings. If you're making holes in the soundboard, there is less area to vibrate, and if you take this too far you can end up with less volume. I think of soundholes as outlets to direct the sound - just as you've done with the sound scoop. 

Super nice build too by the way ;-)

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Permalink Reply by Chad McMillin on July 16, 2014 at 1:24am

thanks man - i still have a lot to learn. this was my 4th build. 

thanks again

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