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by Will Reyer » Tue Jul 11, 2023 9:30 pm
Oh, Carl, that is just exquisite.
Local lumber, native timber - I'm all about that. Except that this is easily an order of magnitude above my functional level. At least that's my excuse at 80. Just splendid.
And "ponderosa pine with staining and worm holes". Yeah, so what. it's wood, not plastic. I've built several out of old oak boards with black stains from nail holes. Sound machines can be pretty, but the first requirement is that they sound good. Pretty not necessary.
I built one here with soundboard from white pine, but it was ladder braced so I'm not sure that while the final sound wasn't like sitka, red spruce, or cedar, that was because of the material or the bracing.
What I reach for first here at home is my #2, actually the first playable one I built because the first was a square neck biscuit bridge resonator that used a $2 Wal Mart electric stove drip pan for the cone. The back of #2 is parallel to the soundboard because the sides were practice for the resonator. It's ugly, the neck is like a baseball bat, the fretboard is flat, and the soundboard is 6mm underlayment plywood, and it just sounds better every year.
Do lots more of these, add sound files. Great stuff!
