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Comment by Seaman Jay on July 3, 2012 at 9:07pm

Oh, I see... 

Sound of my uke: I still didn't have time to prepare the recording setup, but i had PC and access to the soundcloud ;-)

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Comment by Dave Lynas on July 3, 2012 at 12:01pm

The case Seaman, not Big Boy... the case is the furniture. Big Boy is my child... By the way, your bent wood uke sure came out nice. I love the shape. How's she sound?

Comment by Seaman Jay on July 3, 2012 at 1:26am

A piece of furniture? Don't say that...

Comment by Dave Lynas on July 3, 2012 at 1:22am

Seaman, Big Boy is the loudest acoustic box i've made so far. The case i made for him looks like a foot locker at the gym. It's a piece of furniture. This fellow is loud like a dreadnot. 

Comment by Seaman Jay on July 3, 2012 at 12:30am

cigar box guitarron? hell yeah!

Comment by Dave Lynas on May 17, 2012 at 11:15am

Thanks Andy, I've been using three soundboard choices. Sitka Spruce off ebay (about 30$ per bookmatched pair of guitar tops shipping included). Also Engleman Spruce at about the same price. And best of all Martin Guitar reject Sitka Spruce. I got 19 reject top halfs (they split the tops in half when they reject them) on ebay as a lot. They cost less than 5$ each. I can make a bigger box out of the other Spruce, but this Martin wood is very hard, close grained, lively wood! You can get some great wood on ebay. They are all about 3/16ths thick. I sand for a while to thin them a little.

Comment by Andy Eight Spades CBG on May 17, 2012 at 10:38am

Looks great!  What are you using for the soundboards? How thick? 

Comment by Dave Lynas on May 17, 2012 at 10:25am

Not on Big Boy. He's an acoustic and there's no need for getting back inside. He's so loud, there's no need for electrics. Most of mine now have some means of entry. Some have back panels screwed down. Some have jack plates big enough to get in. Lately, they have cover plates on top to trim up the pickups and cover the pots. I'm going back into #3 to fix a piezo that quit on me. It didn't have any way in. I'll cut around my jack to open up an access panel. Some have screw on tops. These are antique boxes found in shops and ebay. I've been finding nice big boxes on ebay under "wooden box" for from 10 to 20$. I like it when all the electronics are on one control plate so I can take out the panel to change something and solder right on the panel.

Comment by Jason Johnson on May 17, 2012 at 8:00am

Are these built in a way that you can get back into the box if you need to work on it??

Comment by Dave Lynas on April 28, 2012 at 11:41am

Thanks much, yes I make most of the boxes. I'm on #19, a solid body lap steel six string. See todays photos. I love doing this. I started out repairing old ukuleles and now I'm really into building. I like some antique boxes too. I've done a few diddly bows using old boxes and my first two builds were made of an old produce spruce box I cut apart and rebuilt into two boxes. They play good, it's fun to bring them to life.

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