Arzi's new inspiration and some results of it

[Arzi]

Hi

I've been quite busy lately since I took on a challenge of building different stuff for myself and taking a small leap towards making my own stuff - all just for the fun of it. For some reason my friends wanted to have these for themselves so having a hobby that pays for itself is not a bad thing.

I wondered what would be the starting point to make my own guitar and then it hit me when I saw Seasick steve on Youtube. Now I'm hooked on cigar box guitars. I can't really play these but I'm learning as fast as I can (which is veeeery slow...)

Anyway, I've built 5 of these cbg's so far, plus small amps and the one in the lake side photo. The pieces in the Finnish lake side sound amazing by the way - not in my hands but a few of my friends really do them justice.

I could not decide which thread would have been best for this post but here it is anyway. By the way - I'm gonna come back with some Ideas on the Tele bass kit as soon as I decide what I wanna do with it. Some custom modding is needed from the factory but other things are still cooking in my head...

I'll be building that Tele bass together with a cbg, a hub cap guitar, a cajon (or three) and a Tele so will have to decide on the order of things too....

[Andy40]

Thats cool Arzi. I love those amps. Whats the black stuff on the jetty?

[Arzi]

Hi Andy

You mean the color of the gitty or the fishing nets next to the amp? Love fishing so had to add them into the picture.

The color on the gitty is just black powdered water based stain with TO surface. Sanded a bit before coating to fade it some towards gray-ish.

[Dedman]

awesome work!

[Andy40]

Ahhhh right fishing net...it seems to obvious now

[DrNomis_44]

Those guitars look cool, the two amps look even cooler.

[wokkaboy]

awesome amps and CBG's Arzi well done I am very impressed. How do they sound and play ?

[Arzi]

The one's on the lakeside I have a cell phone video of but I think it's too big to post. I would not dare to put it on youtube cause a collague of mine plays them wearing our work uniform.

Any ideas on how to put it up so people on this forum would see and hear them? Never posted a video anywhere except on my facebook account.