Captain Butterscotch
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Don't spend a fortune and keep it really low budget.
SSO Home Depot Contest feeler
- Thread starter Customisbetter
- Start date
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OfArtAndArsenal
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Sure, but can we use like a set of stock pups that are just collecting dust? Hell, most of us have a set, most likely Ibanez. Seems silly to buy new ones.
Konfyouzd
Return of the Dread-I
Hardware and pups are exempt from the $ cap I believe... Trying to build tuners might send some folks into a frenzy... I don't even wanna think about what building a pickup might be like...
Curt
Where we're going we don't need neck pickups.
I have a set of tuners from a busted up 6 string banjo thing, and some stock electronics/ pickups from my old ibby. plus some strat saddles I bought ages ago.
all I need to buy is more solder, some wood, "frets", and something to make a bridge baseplate out of.
I'm in
all I need to buy is more solder, some wood, "frets", and something to make a bridge baseplate out of.
I'm in
OfArtAndArsenal
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Well I'm on board. I like the idea of the deadline being January 1st. I, for one, work 50+ hours and have three kids, so more time = yes.
Edit: AND this will be a first build.
Edit: AND this will be a first build.
crg123
SS.orgLocalArchitect
Haha (this is obviously not for this contest) but does this count. Lol I doubt it.
HERE is the build photos and such: http://www.flickr.com/photos/60117994@N08/sets/72157627261245377/with/6022205392/
I figured it would show how make-shift a guitar could really be. I built this back a few years ago. The neck profile actually feels great it I used power tools and good ol' elbow grease.. I use it as a slide guitar with a home made piezo pickup.
HERE is the build photos and such: http://www.flickr.com/photos/60117994@N08/sets/72157627261245377/with/6022205392/
I figured it would show how make-shift a guitar could really be. I built this back a few years ago. The neck profile actually feels great it I used power tools and good ol' elbow grease.. I use it as a slide guitar with a home made piezo pickup.
I'd lose interest long before then. I'd dig a one month contest but any longer than 3 and I think all the fun would wear off and people wouldn't even finish.
OfArtAndArsenal
Well-Known Member
^ Sure, well someone suggested it and it would get my vote. More time is better for me, but majority rules. I would never in hell finish in one month. But I understand the some of you better stocked in the tools/time/experience department would get bored over a seven month challenge. I'm sure there's a happy medium somewhere.
Vostre Roy
Disciple of Djod
I honestly care less about the lenght of the competition than the starting date.
Lets start already! My idea is set and I want to start it NAOW
Lets start already! My idea is set and I want to start it NAOW
OfArtAndArsenal
Well-Known Member
Three months is ok. I still may not finish, but whatev...
I won't be able to start building 'til late August/September. 
Last full semester of school coming up and I have my huge ass project that I will need to devote time to. I feel like 6 months is a good amount of time. If you have the time now or soon then start on it and finish it early. Or if I'm the only jerk who can't build during the summer then I guess I'll have to bow out of this one.
Last full semester of school coming up and I have my huge ass project that I will need to devote time to. I feel like 6 months is a good amount of time. If you have the time now or soon then start on it and finish it early. Or if I'm the only jerk who can't build during the summer then I guess I'll have to bow out of this one. 
Valennic
Many Fingers
Lets avoid a start date and just have a due date. Just have them finished by a certain time. That way those of us who can start, can just start, and those of us who can't, will just be able to start later on. Rolling entries and such.
callankirk
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I like that idea, Valennic - rolling submissions. Don't make a start date, just a "due-date."
Also, is this an open palette sort of gig, i.e. can I make a bass? Or does it have to be a 7 string? Just curious. I'm already playing around with some ideas. Very stoked.
Also, is this an open palette sort of gig, i.e. can I make a bass? Or does it have to be a 7 string? Just curious. I'm already playing around with some ideas. Very stoked.
Konfyouzd
Return of the Dread-I
I was planning to make a bass... 
Vostre Roy
Disciple of Djod
IMO, you can build a 7 string banjo, a 14 string bass or a 2 strings contra-bass, as long as its a stringed instrument made of home renovation shop stuff, it wouldn't matter to me
I'm thinking about building a 6 strings guitar, but with a twist
MassNecrophagia
has no friends
Why not just have a due date, as suggested, on January 1st, 2014?
Maybe the prize will be that your build thread gets stickied in the Luthiery forum for a year?
Maybe the prize will be that your build thread gets stickied in the Luthiery forum for a year?
muffinbutton
knows the muffin man
What if you use something from a convenience store or something? I have an idea (don't want to share it) but it involves getting something that's not from home depot. I can assure that it isn't from a hardwood store or whatever like the wood for my 8 string. If I need to I'll PM whoever's in charge of rules and shit and tell them what I'm thinking of.
flint757
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I can't see why that'd be an issue.
