Hello all,
I have always been pretty good at crafting things since I was a little boy. I've always tore things apart just to see how they are put together. I’ve built a few CBG’s back in High School in the 80's and started building them again a few months back since it’s been a bit easier to pick up cheap cigar boxes.
When going to a few local music’s store in my area to try and pick up parts, (New Jersey) I seem to get the same reply from some of the store owners or employees when they ask me what I am using the parts for.
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“Why do you want to build that for, they all sound like crap” or a get the old eye roll.
I firmly disagree with them and usually thank them for their time and walk out. It seems to me that CBG’s are look down on. I work at a school and even the music teacher here gives me a look when I mention it to him. I have bought one in and even he said the my craftsmanship is very nice and professional, he tells me I should just save my money and time and buy a nice guitar. Has anyone else run into this kind of behavior, or is it just a north-eastern thing.
I have many interest including playing the Bagpipes, Guitar, and Drums, but having a wife and 4 wee ones have been taking up a majority of my time.
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Well whaddya know? The very day I posted this they sold it! Only took 4 months... :)
Exactly Ron, Some folks will never warm up to the thought of some homemade instrument being "cool" while others( Like us folk on here )that have fully embraced CBGs.
I've learned more about guitar in the last two years being a member of CBN then in the 50 years I been playing....well not playing more like trying to play guitar.....and I attribute it too the simplicity of open tuning on 3 or 4 string cbg..Everything I know about music had all come by ear up to my joining the nation, there was no formal training.....but it seems these days I know more about woods, finishes, strings and gauges....parts , not to mention the ability to build and the feeling I get after every build....just knowing I did that. I know more people now than I thin I've ever know, people whom also dabble in something I've come to enjoy. Seeing others take these handmade instruments and do what they do is amazing in its self, but it also inspires people like myself too create, and make the next build that much better...maybe put some lyrics to a cool tune or heck even sing....
I think music stores see the cbg movement as a threat too their business...and with good reason. With all the different name brand competitors out there, and now someone throws in the cigar box guitars, it's probably not in their best interest supporting one of their biggest contenders.
naaw, just all that is out on the market is what they see, and brainwashed and/or life and .... Fruitflies...
Music snobs. Try not to be one.
Pretty much for the same reasons high end audio shops don't embrace or encourage DIY audio guys like myself I would imagine, I used to frequent such an establishment throughout the 80's to early 2000's before moving headlong into DIY. My audio purchases from this shop and others had topped 20 grand during this time and my visits were always very welcome as you can imagine. This place is like a cigar shop where you go to sample the wares. Also hang out and discuss audio with other like minded folks, I was treated like family around there.
By the early to mid 2000's I found myself looking for a sound I was getting close to, but wasn't able to completely get a grasp on with the direction I was going. Spending a shit ton of money to get similar results just wasn't cutting it. I started to hang with DIY folks who had been through the same and finally found my answers,
Your probably asking yourselves, What the hell does this have to do with the question at hand??? and it goes a little something like this...
The very same audio shop that used to embrace me with open arms started to treat me quite differently as they started to realize I had opened the DIY door and building what I was seeking and probably wouldn't be dropping money down the high end audio rat hole like I had in the past. I had educated myself, learned from some of the best and was now rolling my own as it were.
I know it's not personal, but I believe I became a counter productive voice in a world that's business is to sell and not build.
I'm sure the same applies to Music shops. Although they may embrace the notion privately, it's probably not in their best interest to do so publically.
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