Bogdon Music

I invented and manufacture the Bogdon Box Bass. My product has rave reviews in national trade magazines called “Bass Player Magazine” and “The Alternative Press Magazine.” I appeared on MSNBC Elevator Pitch and Fox News Detroit came to my home to do a story on it and me, then News Anchor Steve Garagiola from WXYZ-7 came to my home to feature me in a week end story. The Detroit News Business section wrote about my Box Bass business twice and my new 3-string box bass won “Best in Show” at a trade show called the 2008 Summer NAMM Show (www.namm.com). My partners are my uncle and two cousins. Dave Eden owns and operates a printing shop, Alan is an acoustic engineer and his brother Mark is an electronic engineer. I found people smarter than me to help me. Our products are controversial in that the materials used are unconventional, but with engineering anything is possible. It’s fun to do the impossible. Our small business is 2 years old and we’ve sold 1000+ all over the world and are in national retail stores and one store in Mexico City. We do everything ourselves from marketing and manufacturing, to packaging and shipping.

The Bogdon Box Bass represents a reduction of technology and the simplification of needs.

By demonstrating that a quality sound can be achieved by using unconventional material components at an extremely low cost, a cardboard bass guitar places the least demand on resource technology and encourages people to shift their preconceptions about the 'typical novice instrument'.

Cardboard is not a traditional product material,
however the introduction of innovative bonding, cutting and structural techniques has provided the opportunity to consider this lightweight and recyclable material in a more creative fashion.