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BONEHEAD GUITAR BUILD CHALLENGE

TWO RULES okj 1st rule- there is a time line, march 1st till march31st. 2nd rule you cannot use wood in the build for the challenge as requested by the challenger. there is a 1st place and 2nd place prize of a mystery guitar for the contestants in this challenge. two guitars to be given awway once the contest is over .thanks for your participation and have fun. may the best builder build his or her best.

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not a cbg, but a bit unusual, i think,,

Started by GARAGE HERMIT. Last reply by GARAGE HERMIT May 26, 2012. 1 Reply 0 Likes

bonehead guitar build challenge

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Comment by Low Budget Luthier on January 23, 2009 at 12:51pm: hey brian. how's bout an online competition?

Comment by Kevin Sprague (Knotlenny) on January 23, 2009 at 2:48am: Here's a short video of my Matchbox Diddley Bo, probably the most off-the-wall thing I ever built.

Comment by Gary Krepak- Sole Food Diddley Works on January 22, 2009 at 3:59am: NOTICE:
Name Change.
Due to the fact that the name "Swamp Thang" is being marketed by other musical products, I am renaming it "The Geaux Bow".

Comment by rustman on January 22, 2009 at 12:06am: Mine will not be a strumstick, eh ... strum stick, er... Strumstick, Strum Stick. I wonder if it makes a difference if it is written with a capital letter. (four letter word here) Here in Finland trademark is usually copyrighted by the way it is written. So would there be a way to use the word anyway? Who cares...
Referring to this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-6zq1pG1fY
my instrument will be "NOT a strumstick" or a stick dulcimer
Period.

Cool doggie dish ;-)

Comment by Gary Krepak- Sole Food Diddley Works on January 21, 2009 at 12:13pm: I LIKE IT!

Comment by Mark Vickroid on January 21, 2009 at 8:51am: Just don't call it a strumstick.... that's all thats copyrighted or whatever.. there's no issue with guitar type dulcimer fretted instruments, and i'm sure no one here is making 'strumsticks'

Comment by Mark Vickroid on January 21, 2009 at 8:49am: rustman:

Cool man, I know your's is gonna be one of a kind! I was just refering you there for the tunings and playing ideas, reference, etc...

keep up the good work!

Comment by Gary Krepak- Sole Food Diddley Works on January 21, 2009 at 8:02am: Ted, the instrument I posted below is a diddley bow I made from a plank of Shebua wood, it has a piezo-loaded ukulele body laminated into it. The bow also features a 1/2 Fender P Bass pickup ran into a Cigar box that acts as the elctronics enclosure in the tail. It a;so has a Cigar Box Amp on the top of it, loaded with a Fender Mini-Twin Amp circuit and speaker. Other features: Indian rosewood bridge, Fender Stratocaster saddles for bridge saddle and string tree, a canary wood nut and a Schaller-made Valley Arts Guitar tuner.

Comment by steve (Roots) on January 21, 2009 at 5:41am: Randy, I also build dulcimer scaled cbg's. I found that the non guitar people like them because they can pickout melody's and are easy to play. I play old time music with a dulcimer club and there always a big hit. The strum stick name issue has been around a while therefore I just call mine "Dulci-Box"

Comment by rustman on January 20, 2009 at 10:41pm: To Mark Vicroid...
I've looked through strumstick pages. My construction looks somewhat similar. I like the idea of strumstick, but I hate the idea that a name of an instrument is a trademark. "Violin" or "guitar" are not trademaks. No close up pictures of such to be found, so I'm building my own NOT a strumstick. Thanks, Brian this is one cool discussion forum!