SSO Home Depot Contest feeler

[RV350ALSCYTHE]

Nonono, no extra $200 for "guitar parts". That's the entire idea of the contest. It's obvious that you can't buy all the wood and propper hardware for $100... You need to get creative and make shit up as you go to stay within budget.

I agree all the wood and hardware can be made from random home depot stuff, but what about the pickup(s)?

Can we use whatever spares we have, or should we be winding our own pickups using whatever we can find/afford?

 

[muffinbutton]

I agree all the wood and hardware can be made from random home depot stuff, but what about the pickup(s)?

Can we use whatever spares we have, or should we be winding our own pickups using whatever we can find/afford?

I think you can buy pickups. Although it might be more "in the spirit of the contest" to make them yourself, I think they're an exception as long as they stay within your $100 budget.

 

[HaMMerHeD]

So, what exactly is the goal of this competition?

 

[muffinbutton]

Build a guitar with stuff from home depot or other hardware stores for under $100. doesn't have to be fancy.

 

[Gregori]

Artec pickups are cheap. I believe they manufacture pickups for GFS and some others.

For knobs, I've used wine corks on cigar box guitars.

 

[HaMMerHeD]

But why? What is the point of that? Just to see if you can?

Or is the point to try to encourage new people to pick up some tools and show them that it's neither hard nor expensive to make a decent guitar? (That's the impression I got, which was why I suggested more reasonable limitations.)

 

[muffinbutton]

Artec pickups are cheap. I believe they manufacture pickups for GFS and some others.

For knobs, I've used wine corks on cigar box guitars.

pots in general are a luxury, not necessity. You don't need them. you could build a guitar with one pickup and no controls at all.

 

[Gregori]

But why? What is the point of that? Just to see if you can?

Or is the point to try to encourage new people to pick up some tools and show them that it's neither hard nor expensive to make a decent guitar? (That's the impression I got, which was why I suggested more reasonable limitations.)

It's a contest to see who can make a gem from junk materials. Or at least, that's what I thought it was.

 

[muffinbutton]

But why? What is the point of that? Just to see if you can?

Or is the point to try to encourage new people to pick up some tools and show them that it's neither hard nor expensive to make a decent guitar? (That's the impression I got, which was why I suggested more reasonable limitations.)

The point is to have fun, build a guitar and it helps that it can get people into building some themselves. Also, why not?

 

[HaMMerHeD]

The point is to have fun, build a guitar and it helps that it can get people into building some themselves. Also, why not?

It's an interesting goal. I just don't think, at the very least, that tuning machines and pickups should be included in the $100 budget, simply because they are impractical things for most people to be able to cobble together from hardware store parts.

 

[Captain Butterscotch]

Making this too complicated, you all are.

 

[Gregori]

It's an interesting goal. I just don't think, at the very least, that tuning machines and pickups should be included in the $100 budget, simply because they are impractical things for most people to be able to cobble together from hardware store parts.

If you really want to, you can use a piezo from Radio Shack($2 buzzer) for a pickup, and some eye bolts for tuners. But then we start getting into novelty instrument territory, which is cool for a beginner, but not very exciting to me(been there, done that).

 

[muffinbutton]

It's an interesting goal. I just don't think, at the very least, that tuning machines and pickups should be included in the $100 budget, simply because they are impractical things for most people to be able to cobble together from hardware store parts.

http://www.sevenstring.org/forum/lu...esonator-microtonal-design-2.html#post3499207

Tuners. pickups aren't all that expensive if you don't plan on getting expensive ones. But I was wondering, what if I just do piezos?

EDIT: ninja'd.

 

[HaMMerHeD]

http://www.sevenstring.org/forum/lu...esonator-microtonal-design-2.html#post3499207

Tuners. pickups aren't all that expensive if you don't plan on getting expensive ones. But I was wondering, what if I just do piezos?

EDIT: ninja'd.

I see...I was thinking we'd be building things that someone might actually want to play. My bad.

 

[muffinbutton]

If you're concerned about the budget, use most or all of it on pickups and tuners. you make most of the rest yourself.

 

[scherzo1928]

Think of it as MacGyver stranded on a Home Depot. Outside of Homedepot are 10,00 honey badgers, so he needs to stay inside until the badgers starve to death or leave.

In his boredom, he decides to build a guitar out of stuff he finds in the store.

 

[Danukenator]

Y'all are making this way too complicated. I *thought* the goal was to make a guitar mostly out of home depot stuff and stay under a hundred bucks. If someone wants to snag a cheap bridge, who cares? There is no prize, the goal is to have fun. If someone wants to spend $1500, fine. TBH, I know I'll be buying tuners and a bridge. I don't feel like making them. If people dock me points, fine, I just want to have fun.

 

[muffinbutton]

Exactly. Just build the best guitar you can out of the cheapest stuff possible.

 

[Danukenator]

Also, I attend a college so I'll start mine over the summer. I can't do anything after August.

EDIT: So, I propose we make a deadline not a start date. Like, January 1st of 2014. That way, people have a lot of time and no stress for the people that can't do it over the summer.

 

[axxessdenied]

This will be my first build for a guitar as well. Going to try to make as much as I can myself without buying. Dunno about pups