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Which scale, which brand of strings? At first, which tuning with which string gauges? At second, same questions. Which kind of pickup?
For low tunings often acoustic steel strings are the better choice than electric ones, if you want to play with both acoustically and amplified.
The smaller solid strings provide more tension on the nut and bridge and sustain better than the wound strings. This makes them provide more volume in a acoustic guitar and this is the reason that most acoustic guitars have a deep and large area sound chamber compared to a CBG.
Bigger wound strings just aren't going to make as much acoustic volume on a thin and small area acoustic chamber like a CBG.
You have remember that CBG's were made by poor musicians to mimic a guitar. They often made their own stings from screen doors, baling wire or the wire from brooms. All those wires were solid so they made more acoustic volume.
Paul's advice makes a lot of sense, but also, some dog bowls are a little thicker than others and don't ring out as well especially with thicker wound strings, one thing that does help is a metal bridge with a smaller contact area on the bowl, ideally 1 small foot each end of the bridge or similar
Don't be afraid to try different things, you'll stumble on to something great eventually.
I tried to identify your D'Addario .010 to .052 string set: I suppose it's an electric Nickel Wound Light Top / Heavy Bottom set, and D'Addario's electrics are far from the best choice for acoustics...
When I'm not happy with low GDG tuning, with string gauges like .022 .030 .042, I try DAD tuning with string gauges .013 .017 .026 or the like
If available, bone or horn is often the best choice for a bridge. The resonators I have seen had biscuits of hard wood with a bridge of brass or bone.
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