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Corina Fretless

Sometimes they turn out looking, playing and sounding like I want them to. This one exceeded my hopes. The tail piece is a shoe horn from Rich Caudill.

When first done, the neck, fretboard and head stock were 'natural' - just oiled. Did not seem quite right. Also, the first piezo sucked. I was a lazy ass and stuck it on the neck because it was convenient to do so.

I replaced the piezo under the lid and painted everything but the box black. Then sanded most of the black off and re -oiled it.

I like the Look and it plays and sounds great. I now have 2 of these Corina box builds and they are super good acoustic.

That box was pretty a... faded and nondescript when I found it at a junk store for $5.00. I rubbed in two coats of Crisco oil and it came back to life.

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Comment by Uncle John on April 28, 2014 at 12:25am: Thanks, J. I think you will eventually hear it in a vid.

Comment by J Lee on April 27, 2014 at 3:55pm: Really like this look. Can we hear it too?

Comment by Uncle John on April 27, 2014 at 8:32am: Nope. I really want to go and thought about it a lot. Just under 500 miles for me one way. Not going.

Comment by Sean Oliveira on April 27, 2014 at 7:43am: Are you coming to the fest here in St. Louis? Are you going to submit a song to the contest?

Comment by Uncle John on April 27, 2014 at 5:30am: Sounds good to me, Sean. I wish I could teleport to and from St. Louis CBG fest.

Comment by Sean Oliveira on April 27, 2014 at 5:27am: perhaps one day we can just pass instruments through the computer or some other Star Trek/Wars type thing...

Comment by Uncle John on April 27, 2014 at 3:44am: I wish you could sample playing it, Sean.

Comment by Sean Oliveira on April 27, 2014 at 2:17am: This has major mojo! I could look at it for hours.

Comment by Uncle John on April 27, 2014 at 12:02am: LOL, Dave, It does, Richey. Thanks, guys.

Comment by Richey Kay on April 26, 2014 at 8:11pm: Yep, looks like that will play very nicely.

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