I've got a project started with the local Kids Summer Events co-ordinators to do a 1 or 2 day workshop with some kids this summer to build CBG's with strong cardboard boxes and 2ft lengths of 1X2 for the necks. Coloured Weedeater line for strings, eye screws for tuners, bolt and nut bridges. Older kids may want to try toothpick frets. I'm going to make up a 1/4" cable with a piezo in a plastic clamp on the end. I should be able to clamp it to the tailpiece of the kids guitars and amp them up. The micro cube will make any of them sound good....LOL This is going to be fun!!!!
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I've tried a couple of designs just real rough and they sounded great. I will post the final design here when it's done. If the piezo doesn't work great on the tailpiece I'll stick it to the body with some masking tape or something. It doesn't have to be really loud, just enough to please the kids and show them it works.
I'm going to get the wood for the necks donated by the local builder supply and roughed out by a local carpenter who is donating his time on the router table. The boxes are still under research, I've found a few that would work good. Blank ones would be nice so the kids could colour them up and add sparkles and other decorations. I'll have a couple of adult's helping the kids cut out the boxes and making sure the box top and neck top are level before securing them into place. That will be about the most complicated part, the rest is just stringing and setting the bridge hieght. Good luck with your project too, anything to turn the kids minds on to something other than the tube and drugs is a great idea!
I read on this site about some one using the boxes that key boards come in and they sound great. Check out your local school district office, talk to the I.S. manager, they probably have scores of them.
Tracy Tomlinson said:I'm going to get the wood for the necks donated by the local builder supply and roughed out by a local carpenter who is donating his time on the router table. The boxes are still under research, I've found a few that would work good. Blank ones would be nice so the kids could colour them up and add sparkles and other decorations. I'll have a couple of adult's helping the kids cut out the boxes and making sure the box top and neck top are level before securing them into place. That will be about the most complicated part, the rest is just stringing and setting the bridge hieght. Good luck with your project too, anything to turn the kids minds on to something other than the tube and drugs is a great idea!
Thanks for the box idea Dave, I'll check them out.
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