Posted by Rand Moore on September 2, 2013 at 9:32pm
Here's another photo of the finished instrument. The thin-walled sound box makes the instrument sound bright and clear as compared to most my other instruments. My typical sound boxes which are build usually of 0.5cm thick cherry or sapeli sound a lot warmer. Volume wise it sounds perhaps a bit louder than most my instruments, but it's pretty subjective at this point. I think I'll build a few more of these to see if this style of building has more merit.The final LOA of the instrument is 68 cm (just short of 27"), while the sound box dimensions are 7.25" x 4.5" x 3". Why the odd dimensions? I originally was planning to upgrade an instrument I built previously that has a nice neck/head/fretboard, but has a "junky" looking cardboard box for a sound box. When I got the sound box half done, I decided that I should build a whole new instrument with it. Then I could document the build process in my CBN group "Home Made Resonator Boxes 101, v.2.0".
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