Photo gallery - Salvage Sounds

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This is the “Seedy Forty” - our latest build, which has just left Salvage Sounds HQ today. This included the custom-build option to have both the controls and output jack sounds side-mounted on the slimline body, rather than on the plate itself. This has the advantage of keeping things out of the way of the player.

As nothing is fixed to the surface, it also means that a customer could swap to another plate in the future simply by slackening the strings, unscrewing the plate, and slipping another one under in its place. Thus extending the versatility of this unique, repurposed, musical art piece.

#licenseplateguitar #cigarboxnation #cigarboxguitar #rhodeisland #oceanstate #providence #providencerhodeisland #instaguitar #guitarsofinstagram #3string #3stringguitar #3strings #handmadeinstruments #handmadeinstrument #worthing #instamusic #instaart #instaartist #instaartistic #licenseplate #licenseplateart #fireplace #hearth #salvage #salvaged #upcycling #guitarra #guitar #guitars #guitarras

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Now there’s an idea(!!) 😬

First license plate guitars of the year built and ready for delivery.

#licenseplateguitar #licenseplateguitars #bluesguitar #slideguitar #slideguitarblues #slideguitars #salvage #salvaged #salvagestyle #upcycled #upcycle #3strings #3stringsguitar #cbgbuilder #guitarbuilder #cbgitty #cigarboxguitar #cigarboxguitars #cigarboxnation #cigarboxguitarbuilder #resonatorguitar #doubleneck #doubleneckguitar #guitarart #cbg #boxguitar #threestringguitar #madetobeplayed #guitarbuild #uniqueguitar

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We are delighted to have been invited to be a part of S’kool Fest 2019 tomorrow evening at the Pavilion Theatre in Worthing, courtesy of our friends at @northbrook_music

So we have just finished up on a new batch of beer bottleneck guitar slides to have available for sale at the event. We will also be supplying one of our box Diddley Bows as a prize on the night.

Tickets are available for only £4/£2 from @worthingtheatres. Doors open 6pm for a 7pm start. If you are in the area and indisposed come and see some fantastic young musical talent and possible stars of tomorrow in addition to those the area has already produced! And please come and say hello.

@worthingtheatre @musictechsnorthbrookmet @mike.pailthorpe @mikepailthorpe @skoolfest2019 @upcycled #youngtalent #skoolfest #skoolfest2019 #worthing #instamusic #sanmiguel #sanmiguelbeer #northbrook #northbrookmet #slideguitar #guitarslides #bottleneck #bottleneckguitar #upcycling #recycling #recycledart #recycleideas #repurpose #repurposed #salvage #salvaged #upcycle #reuse #reused #paviliontheatre #worthingpier #worthingbeach #guitarslide #guitarslides

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We have freshly finished cigar box guitars in the shop this week, with a special £30 discount off the web price. Available in both the classic f-hole design plus a couple of beautiful paper-covered bodies. All boxes arriving directly from Cuba this year.

A lovely full and bright acoustic sound. These work as electric also with a discreet tone and volume control panel to the rear of the guitar, hidden from view and not clashing with the aesthetics of the face.

Each instrument features #motherofpearl inlay marquetry, hand-shaped neck and Salvage Sounds signature headstock.

@colonnadehse #cigarboxguitar #cigarboxnation #handmadeinstruments #cbg #cigarboxguitars #slideguitar #bluesguitar #worthing #blues #cuba #havana #habana #cigarbox #cigarboxart #worthingartist #3string #3stringguitar #handmadeguitar #handmadeguitars #marquetry #reclaim #reclaimed #upcycled #upcycle #repurposed #recycledart #refusereducereuserecycle #salvage #salvaged

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**SPECIAL OFFER** Last postage for Christmas Day may have passed but as long as the current issue of @reclaimmag this month is on shelves across the UK - with its feature on Salvage Sounds - we will continue to offer FREE delivery across the mainland for all our cigar box instruments. There are just a few guitars left now, plus this cute little ukulele.

The instrument is electro-acoustic, with Aquila nylgut strings and bone nut and saddle for that sweet tone. Also featuring hand-carved neck and headstock with Mother-of-Pearl marquetry. Plus soundhole mesh covers fabricated entirely from recycled and repurposed materials.

#ukulele #ukuleles #ukelele #ukeleles #cigarboxguitar #cigarboxguitars #cigarboxnation #uke #ukes #ukelife #ukulelecover #rem #losingmyreligion #ukecover #ukecovers #ukulelesongs #ukulelelife #ukelelecover #cigarboxukulele #ukulelelove #ukeleletime #ukuleletime #ukulelelove #loveukulele #ukulelelover #ukulelelovers #cigarbox #cigarboxes #ukelelelife #ukelelelove

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We still have a few £10 1-string tinjos and open-backed panjos left over from our marathon “Infinite Instrument” building session yesterday at the @weareoverthemoon “REclaim Weekend” in Shoreham-by-Sea.

Each with its own unique character and voice. Please send us a DM or get in touch via our website if you would like to discuss the possibility of acquiring one at this special price.

#1-string #repurposed #diddleybow #diddleybows #canjo #canjos #panjo #panjos #tinjo #reclaim #reclaimed #recycle #recycledart #upcycled #upcycle #upcycling #banjo #banjos #ukulele #ukuleles #boats #guitars #cigarboxnation #cigarboxguitars #cigarboxguitar #shoreham #shorehambysea #handmadeinstrument #repurpose #salvaged

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The conventional and the unusual coexisting side-by-side at @trainofthoughtworthing. Tinjos, Panjos, Canjos and Box Diddley Bows - £15 with hand-cut beer bottleneck glass guitar slides for £5.

#worthing #westsussex #handmadeinstruments #handmadeinstrument #cigarboxnation #cigarboxguitar #cigarboxguitars #ukuleles #ukulele #recordshop #recordshops #localrecordstore #supportyourlocalrecordstore #supportyourlocalrecordshop #trainofthought #tinjo #panjo #canjo #diddleybow #1string #boxguitar #telecaster #stratocaster #electricguitars #electricguitar #ledzeppelin #davidbowie #kttunstall #artgallery #gallery

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**SPECIAL OFFER** We are greatly honoured to be featured in the latest issue of @reclaimmag currently on shelves up and down the UK. To mark the event we are offering FREE UK DELIVERY on all our cigar box instruments between now and the end of the year.

#cigarboxguitar #cigarboxnation #3string #3stringguitar #guitars #guitar #ukulele #ukelele #guitarra #guitarras #gitarre #handmadeinstruments #handmadeinstrument #specialgift #unusualgifts #worthing #freedelivery #bluesguitar #wallart #instamusic #instagood #salvage #reclaim #cigarboxguitars #upcycled #salvaged #recycle #upcycle #recycled #cigarboxes

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The elder member of the Salvage Sounds junior division (age 12) scratch-built this awesome resonator body at the @weareoverthemoon “REclaim Weekend” on Monday. With a hardwood slab for a base, drawer-runners for the sides, and thin sheet metal for the resonating soundtop - all materials located in the event’s “junk stash” on the day. The back and sides were smoothed and rounded, while the edges and corners of the metal were softened using tin-snips. He then finished by adding the soundhole detail using a discarded piece of a child’s building set, also found in the stash, as a hole spacing guide.

The combination of the solid, weighty base for sustain, the super-thin but very strong metal top for tone and reverberation, and one of our “Infinite Instrument” ready-made 1-string necks, results in a great blues sound and satisfying to play Diddley Bow. And shows how the Salvage Sounds “Infinite Instrument” can make instrument-building accessible to a range of ages and abilities.

Limited numbers of creations from the event still available for only £10 - please DM to enquire.

#youngtalent #childrenarethefuture #safehands #salvage #salvaged #reclaimadur #reclaim #reclaimed #reclaimedwood #reclaimedwoodart #repurpose #repurposed #infiniteinstrument #reuse #reused #reusedwood #recycle #recycling #upcycled #upcycling #cigarboxnation #cigarboxguitars #cigarboxguitar #diddleybow #handmadeinstruments #handmadeinstrument #instamusic #instaart #instaguitar #1string

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No more misplaced picks with our pencil case strumstick’s patented sophisticated Plectrum Retention System (PRS!)
*totally not patented

#strumstick #plectrum #plectrums #keyring #handmadeinstrument #handmadeinstruments #nylonstring #3string #3strings #miniguitar #ukelele #ukeleles #ukulele #ukuleles #folkinstrument #unusualinstruments #unusualmusicalinstruments #reclaim #reclaimed #guitarjoke #prs #notaprs #woodenbox #woodenboxes #salvage #salvaged #upcycle #upcycled #cigarboxguitar #cigarboxnation

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Wishing a very happy 50th birthday today to the marvellous @pjharveyofficial. In Chelmsford, Essex there is an excellent long-standing market stall selling excess back issues of various magazine publications. This PJ Harvey #ultimatemusicguide by @uncut_magazine was picked up there fairly recently. Many MANY years before, an early edition of @totalguitar was bought from the very same location and included as a free gift the glass bottleneck slide pictured on the left. This slide would become the inspiration for the Salvage Sounds range of handcut bottlenecks, examples of which are pictured on the right and top.

These elements combine on the first couple of PJ Harvey albums, "Dry" (1992 - the 16th entry on Kurt Cobain's own handwritten "Top 50 by Nirvana") and "Rid of Me" (1993). Both these records feature a number of songs with Polly Jean playing slide on her guitar. Probably most notably the latter's searing final track "Ecstasy". The raw nature and raucousness of this gritty early material lends itself well to the stripped-down Cigar Box Guitar and the type of music the instrument inspires. Though the following pair of PJ Harvey songs do not feature slide, those with an appreciation for where dirty blues meets alternative rock - but unfamiliar with her work - would do well to check out the spectacularly rambunctious "50 Ft Queenie", and the (speaker!) bursting cover of the Bob Dylan classic "Highway 61 Revisited". Listen now on Spotify and enjoy.

#pjharvey #pollyjeanharvey #totalguitar #chelmsford #essex #ridofme #stevealbini #bobdylan #kurtcobain #nirvana #90smusic #90sgrunge #islandrecords #alternativerock #highway61 #highway61revisited #50ftqueenie #cigarboxguitar #cigarboxnation #bottleneckslide #slideguitar #bluesmusic #bornin1969 #50today #happybirthday #glassslide #guitarslide #slideguitarblues #uncutmagazine

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Today marks our 2 year Instagram anniversary. Around this time last year we were thinking about our “Tex-Mex” #licenseplateguitar design. (Texan license plate, Mexican beer bottle cap controls)

Originally intended as a one-off, the instrument - pictured here - created so much interest that we have decided to try and build a “Tex-Mex 2” in time for our September @colonnadehse exhibition.

If you wish to reserve the instrument before it goes on public show please get in touch.

#texas #texmex #texan #mexico #mexico🇲🇽 #sol #corona #corona🍺 #solbeer #cerveza #licenseplates #licenseplateart #licenseplate #licenseplateguitars #cbg #cigarboxguitar #cigarboxnation #handmadeinstruments #handmadeinstrument #guitar #guitarra #3stringguitar #3string #gitarra #guitarras #cigarboxguitars #worthing #blues #bluesguitar

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If it is THAT post it must be that time of year again... Salvage Sounds is back in town! Open from today through to Sunday at @colonnadehse in the heart of Worthing. If you are in the area, please swing by our alternative pop-up guitar shop. If you have bought from us before, feel free to bring your instruments and we’ll give them a quick tune up and service for you - and maybe give you a few playing tips and have a bit of a jam.

#worthing #guitarshop #guitarstore #artexhibition #artexhibitions #recycling #recycledart #recycled #refusereducereuserecycle #upcycled #upcycle #recycle #recyclereuse #recycler #salvage #salvaged #cigarboxguitar #cigarboxnation #licenseplateguitar #ukulele #ukelele #handmadeinstruments #handmadeisbetter #handmadeisbest #cbg #cigarboxguitars #diddleybow #canjo #strumstick #guitars

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Those following us a while may recall that earlier this year we thought we may have built our last cigar box ukulele of this design. Those following even longer may recall how we have explained our zero wastage neck manufacturing method whereby we build a mirror image neck pair from one length of timber that we then separate down the middle.

Well, we were very lucky to be provided with a beautiful “Romeo Y Julieta” box fresh from Cuba a little while ago. As we had made an odd number of instruments of this nature before (7) we had a practically finished neck ready to be added, leftover from the last separation “operation”. So perhaps THIS is the final cigar box uke build we will produce.... of this particular type, and certainly for a while at least.

Electro-acoustic for amplification potential and available from the Salvage Sounds pop-up shop in #worthing @colonnadehse for £80. Final day tomorrow.

#ukulele #uke #ukelele #ukeleletime #ukelife #cigarboxguitar #cigarboxnation #worthingartist #handmadeinstrument #handmadeinstruments #ukulelelove #ukeleles #ukelelelove #ukuleles #4string #4strings #cuba #habana #havana #upcycled #repurpose #repurposed #reclaim #reclaimed #romeoyjulieta #ukulelelife #cigarboxukulele #upcycling #upcycler

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Half the stock of License Plate Guitars has already sold, and we haven’t even hit the weekend rush yet. If it is something you have thought about, perhaps don’t hesitate as there has been significant interest in the remaining guitars. Here down at @colonnadehse in #Worthing until Sunday 5pm.

#licenseplateguitar #licenseplateguitars #licenceplate #licenseplate #illinois #texas #licenceplateguitar #licenceplateguitars #cigarboxguitar #cigarboxnation #boxguitar #3stringguitar #3stringguitars #landoflincoln #guitars #guitarlife #guitare #guitarphotography #guitarporn #cbg #cigarboxguitars #salvage #salvaged #reclaim #reclaimed #repurposed #repurpose #upcycled #upcycling

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#theweightofhope the new album by @hayleyrossmusic has been on heavy rotation lately up in the Salvage Sounds studio workshop.

This instrument is the Hayley Ross Special Edition tuned to an unusual open C Sharp, inspired by her song #Tumbledown as featured on Netflix’s worldwide smash “Orange is the New Black”

If you have yet to check out this great artist search her out now on streaming platforms and let Hayley’s beautiful music soothe you in these strange and uncertain times.

#netflix #netflixandchill #netflixshows #netflixoriginalseries #orangeisthenewblack #hayleyross #hayleyrossmusic #barracudarecordings #licenseplate #licenseplateguitar #cigarboxguitar #cigarboxnation #newartist #music #musician @barracuda_recordings #cigarboxguitars #licenseplateguitars #handmadeinstruments #salvage #salvaged #recycled #recycle #upcycle #upcycled #ukartist #repurposed #repurpose #3string

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This week’s @colonnadehse pop-up alternative guitar store has seen the return of the “Duelling Canjos” offer, frozen at last year’s special price of 2 for just £50 - both including free beer bottleneck slide and pick (single price £30)

Last day today. Open until 5pm

#worthingartist #worthingart @discoverworthing #cigarboxguitar #cigarboxnation #idealgift #idealgifts #handmadeinstrument #handmadeinstruments #licenseplateguitar #licenseplateguitars #cigarboxguitars #strumstick #canjo #diddleybow #ukulele #ukelele #ukuleles #ukeleles #diddlybow #2string #1string #3string #rootsinstruments #blues #bluesguitar #slideguitar #guitarslide #upcycled #repurpose #recycled

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Down at the wonderful recording facilities of @northbrook_music @musictechsnorthbrookmet to present this Ebony Diddley Bow to a prize-winning performer from the recent @skoolfest2019 local schools music festival. Any opportunity to visit this amazing place is always very much welcome.

#worthing #goring #durrington #northbrook #education #learning #community #music #instamusic #studio #ukulele #musicstudio #musicstudios #diddleybow #cigarboxnation #cigarboxguitars #1string #vox #voxamp #voxamps #homemadeinstruments #musicproduction #musicproductionlife #salvage #boxguitar #guitaramp #upcycled #cigarboxguitar #recycled #northbrookcollege

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Today the Salvage Sounds sideshow has been over at the Green Dreams 2019 Festival. A community #greenspace event with an emphasis on sustainable and ecologically centric products, services and initiatives.

#greendreams #eco #ecofriendly #sustainability #sustainable #environment #recycle #recycling #green #greenspaces #recycled #iloveworthing #i_love_worthing #sunnyworthing #community #festival #communityfestival #handmadeinstruments #handmadeinstrument #cigarboxguitar #cigarboxnation #strumstick #canjo #ukulele #ukelele #ukuleles #diddleybow #cigarboxguitars #cbg @southdownsleisure

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The comfortable 24” scale length of our License Plate Guitar design is directly inspired by the Fender Jaguar, which has this very same fret spacing.

Today saw the delivery of our latest “Lemon Drop” build. We now have just one more yellow plate in our materials stores to make one more guitar of this colour.

If you would like to become the owner of what could very well become our final “Lemon Drop” LPG please get in touch and we will create an entry for you in our build backlog.

Now offering UK mainland delivery for just £9.95

#licenseplateguitar #licenseplateguitars #cigarboxguitar #cigarboxnation #fender #fenderjaguar #fenderjag #shortscale #licenseplates #licenseplate #licenseplateart #licenseplateart #wallart #yellow #guitar #guitars #electricguitar #jazzmaster #fendermustang #fenderguitars #homemadeinstruments #3string #sketchesandstrings #3strings #3stringguitar #worthing #worthingartist #offsetguitars #offsetguitar #guitarra

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Our latest batch of pencil case strumsticks finished and ready for delivery this week. Some lefties in with this lot.

#strumstick #pencilcase #pencils #3string #3strings #ukulele #ukelele #cigarboxguitar #cigarboxnation #worthing #pencilcases #homemadeinstruments #folkinstrument #repurpose #guitars #guitarras #guitar #guitarra #folkinstruments #repurposed #salvage #recycled #upcycled #upcycling #reclaim #reclaimed #boxguitar #handmadeisbest #musicalinstrument #lefthandedguitar

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The last of the canjo orders left today. Will yours be a Salvage Sounds Christmas this year?

#canjo #christmastree #illy #handmadeinstruments #handmadeinstrument #musicalinstrument #hohoho #christmasgift #cigarboxnation #cigarboxguitar #stockingfiller #2string #2strings #fretless #slideguitar #slideguitarblues #bluesguitar #salvage #salvaged #recycle #recycled #recycling #upcycle #upcycled #upcycling #repurposed #repurpose #reclaim #reclaimed #christmas

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Our stall today at the “REclaim Weekend” community recycling festival by @weareoverthemoon in Shoreham-by-Sea with the day’s 1st two “Infinite Instrument” creations salvaged from the event’s junk stash.

#junkorchestra #recycle #repurposed #salvage #salvaged #repurpose #recycling #recycler #festival #shoreham #shorehambysea #community #recycledart #recycled #upcycled #upcycling #cigarboxguitars #cigarboxguitar #cigarboxnation #ukulele #canjo #guitar #diddleybow #licenseplateguitar #guitars #instamusic #instaart #stall #craft #handmadeinstruments

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Did they say it would be good weather for drying instruments on the line?? Tomorrow we will be appearing at the “REclaim Weekend” over in Shoreham-by-Sea in association with @weareoverthemoon. This creative community recycling festival, taking place on each day (10am to 4pm) of the #bankholidayweekend is full of activities, performances and stalls for all ages. Today’s theme is “REfashion”. Tomorrow’s is “REplay”. If you are in the area, come and join in the fun on Coronation Green (free entry). We are just finishing up a batch of our “Infinite Instrument” 1-string necks, so that some funky new creations can be made at the event from the stash of available junk! And later can be played in an ensemble “junk orchestra” at the end of the day.

To mark the occasion we will be selling some of our instruments for up to half the usual price, with ALL 1-string items (including those we create on the day) only £10

#upcycled #upcycle #recycling #recycle #shoreham #shorehambysea #reuse #1string #1-string #handmadeinstruments #handmadeinstrument #cigarboxnation #cigarboxguitar #canjo #cigarboxguitars #boxguitar #recycledart #recycled #repurposed #repurpose #replay #junkorchestra #community #festival #clothesline #clothespeg #clothespegs #bankholiday #bankholidaymonday