Gumbo Guitars is a Dutch company that sells hand crafted Roots Instruments built by its owner Servaas Bollen. He started Gumbo Guitars in May 2013 and is inspired by the amazing story of how the blues historically found many creative ways to express itself. Back then, people who couldn't afford a guitar built it themselves from any available hollow object with any kind of string on it. Servaas now builds several types of these. For example: Cigar Box Guitars, License Plate Resonator Guitars, Beer Canjos and also Stomp Boxes (a flat box covered with a license plate that you put under your foot to amplify your foot tapping rhythm).
You don't have to be a guitar player to be able to play the Cigar Box Guitar or License Plate Resonator Guitar. It's pretty easy to get that authentic rootsy sound from it because they are tuned to an 'open chord', so when you strum all the strings you are already playing a chord. Now when you use a bottleneck or slide, you can play other chords or even melodies. Playing tips and lessons are widely available on Youtube.
And by the way: All license plates used are road worn and have seen miles and miles of American highways, dirt roads or maybe even Route 66! Gumbo Guitars mainly uses plates from states where the blues originated like: Mississippi, Tennessee, Texas and Illinois. On request it is possible to put any other plate on a Gumbo Guitar.
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The 3 and 4 string License Plate Guitars all have a piezo pickup inside, so you can easily amplify them, but they also have a very nice acoustic sound. There are position/fret markers on the top of the neck (not visible on picture).
The 6 string License Plate Guitars are built like a 'normal' electric guitar from a solid piece of Mahogany, Alder or Ash wood with a strat-type neck and a single coil pickup. Other pickup configurations are also possible on request.
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The License Plate Stomp Box is made with a bass guitar pickup under the plate and a volume and tone knob to shape the sound. You can amplify this without a preamp.
Gumbo Guitars also makes a little preamp in a mint tin that is specially designed for piezo pickups. Without it, these pickups can sound a bit thin. This preamp brings out the mid and low frequencies and gives it a fuller sound and as a bonus it also reduces feedback!Designed with front (or back) porch picking in mind, this kit has an full, rich resonator sound and is great for playing all sorts of music, including Blues, Folk and Country. The Reso-Plate kit is easy to assemble, with a real license plate for the resonator (either your own or one of ours) and ready to be stained, painted, woodburned, decorated and customized. It can even be built left-handed!
Designed and with most of the parts made right here at the C. B. Gitty workshops in Gonic, New Hampshire, this amazing-sounding guitar can be built at your dining room table with just a few basic tools. No advanced woodworking is required (no sawing, routing, etc) - just some basic clamping, light drilling and screw insertion is all it takes to build your very own four-string tenor guitar.
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This kit comes with a set of strings meant for tuning to Open G GDG, which has become the de facto tuning standards for 3-string cigar box guitars. If desired, you can re-string it with a set of High Open G Strings for an even more old-timey banjo-like sound. This kit also comes with a full fretboard already attached to the neck, making assembly easy. The detailed how-to guide not only shows you how to assemble the kit, but also includes some basic how-to-play information as well, to help get you picking once the build is done. We also throw in a full-color copy of one of Ben Gitty's Essential Chords Posters with every kit, which is a wealth of information to help get you strumming along with popular songs.
Also don't forget to grab a copy of one of Ben's songbooks! He has a whole line-up of 3-string tablature songbooks- which is what you build with this kit!
Assembly time on this kit is 3-4 hours, not including glue set-up time. It is recommended for ages 16 and up, though younger kids can help build it with close adult supervision. This kit comes in blank slate form of bare plywood that can be painted, stained or finished as desired. The decorated version(s) in the listing photo(s) are for demonstration purposes only.
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Got my ... kit Thursday. I am very happy with it. It sounds great. Took your advice and am approaching it like a while new instrument. I've been playing in a form of open G (DGBD) but this is better. Especially the chord forms.I am very happy with the four string songbook. Your material is great. Thanks to you I now am understanding how to move from single string melody playing to choral melody playing. I've needed this info for a long time. THANK YOU.
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