GUITARCHEOLOGY: Cigar Box Guitar History + this awesome "Vaudeville Knee Fiddle"
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
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Let's talk about cigar box guitar history and the concept of "Guitarcheology!"
I love it when you do things like this.
The details are phenomenal.
I have added "Folk Songs of Another America" to my reading list
I do traditional wood working(hand tools only) and I make joints with dowels all the time. No nails. No screws. I would bet those don't have nails under it.
Shane, you likely wouldn't know unless somehow x-rayed or something... but it's at least possible rather than those 3 neck plugs being actual neck plugs over screws that (unless the rest of the git is connected via actual metal screws) it is in fact plugged. Plenty of old-school and el-cheapo assembly of furniture and simple boxes and instruments now and then were assembled with glue and wooden pegs, therefore pegged together rather than screwed as such. Just a possibility depending on what they had available or chose. May be dowels only... Loved this! -Glenn
I’m always on the hunt for old stuff
You are appreciated so much for sharing this knowledge and history with all of us. Waiting for your book, too, and hope you will offer some autographed ones for sale!
Yep...maybe advance copies, too. All depends on the publisher. Release date is Nov. 2018
Great information! I'm a woodwotker/ guitar player. I've been doing some research on my next project and want to tackle the cigarbox guitar. Any suggestions? I'm torn between a more traditional design with no guitar specific parts, pickups, bridge, and tunners. Or just make a modern-day version. Thanks again.
I was waiting for you to point out the wear spots ahead of the "tail piece that's like a violin's" and that fact that the bridge is missing and that it must have either been adjusted a lot or fallen out a lot to develop that much wear...
It IS lovely - but you know what it made ME think of - there is an ancient chinese string instrument played with a bow and one string, if I recall correctly from my boyhood. But whatever the basis for this instrument, it was made with loving care!!
Chinese erhu
Oops, I see Kirk mentioned this earlier. Kudos.
On the one string ... how do you know the dowels are covering nail holes, and the original maker didn't just use dowels alone for the joinery?
GREAT POINT!!!
a cheap metal detector or a rare earth magnet should help you determine if its plugged screw holes or dowel joinery.
You guys amaze me. I should create interactive blog posts with each of my antiques and let everyone get involved in sleuthing...