How to do a National guitar on a budget!

This is how to do National guitar on a budget

How does it sound?

ok maybe the action needs some work!

An old tin dish from vintage scales!

(anyone need some old scales without a dish?)

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Comment by bill on June 22, 2012 at 2:20pm

now thats doin it on the cheap, but most excellent....

Comment by smokestack guitars on January 14, 2012 at 8:28am

Sounds good!

Comment by Roadkill a.k.a. John Maw on January 13, 2012 at 7:00am

That sounds nice. I like the playing too.

Comment by bemuzic on January 12, 2012 at 10:50pm

oh and nice playing too : -)

Comment by bemuzic on January 12, 2012 at 10:50pm

sounds AMAZING!!..so do you thing old tin sounds better than say a modern cat bowl?

Comment by BUGGY (C) on January 12, 2012 at 10:00pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJP4BjN0egI

This is and old video of what a "stainless hob" cover sound like !... I will try and do a comparison video on the same guitar as it would be realy interesting....I have a sunken top parlour these all fit on, and work a treat and dont kill the action, as the top is already dropped down. (This is using silk and steels)

The big one above uses I think bronze martin strings.... its an old russian Guit I got for £14 and it smells!

with a bolt off neck....(ie it dont go back on afterwards!)

Comment by BUGGY (C) on January 12, 2012 at 9:48pm

http://www.cigarboxnation.com/video/dog-bowl-resonator-guitar

the above link was my take on a dog bowl !

Comment by BUGGY (C) on January 12, 2012 at 8:58pm
Yeh thank for the coments, I plan to use this in a Cbg build
Re dog dish,also see my dogbowl resonator video
Cheap and thin is good and old guitars too...
Vintage tin is the thing!
I've tried ,dog bowl,cat bowl,scale bowl,hob top,stainless dish ....etc
I dun em all..... and this ones a good un!
Comment by Slowpaw Steve T on January 12, 2012 at 8:26pm

Sounds the real deal, nice work mr.bug! (-:

Comment by Reverend Otis on January 12, 2012 at 6:33pm

that beast sounds terrific!

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