(Aug 20, 2016 04:29 PM)Bowser Wrote: My first post. So, yeah, I make these things called cigar box guitars. They are incredibly easy to make and fun to play.
They're nifty, alright. Since I got into adapting clawhammer banjo style (or at least borrowing its rhythm), and admiring what Jake Shimabukuro can do with just a ukulele, I've been mildly longing for some kind of small, backpacker guitar with possibly fewer strings.
Hobby-wise, I originally acquired a big, clunky dreadnought because I liked that muted, deep thump brand of alternating bass line that early popularizers of fingerpicking like Chet Atkins (etc) used to back-up their melodies on the treble strings. But after experimenting with other acoustic guitar styles over time, having all that lower sense of "space" ironically gets annoying for some things.