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4 string plans

New member here.  I'm inspired to make a 4 string tenor guitar with a cigar box.  I've been looking for plans and found a number of 3 string instruments, but all the 4 string plans are for a normal guitar style body.

This would be my first instrument.

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4 Replies · Reply by Bob Herget Jan 11

Photo Posting Idea

I think one of the most useful things we can do to help newcomers and novice builders (actually I wouldn't mind seeing it too) get started is to routinely post at least the following info with our pictures: 1. Scale Length: Example - 25" 2. String w

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14 Replies · Reply by Jock MacHinery Jan 3

YouTube videos

For all those who post videos from YouTube, might want to, in your comments add another link to the shared video. Some members aren't able to access them here. Google keeps interfering, asking if your a bot. It used to be that, video's had a link, so

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11 Replies · Reply by BrianQ. Dec 7, 2024

My First

Hi 

My name is Alf, live in the Niagara Falls area in canada.   I am in the process of building an Octave Mandolin from a kit.  I chose the kit because I play left handed.  Hard to find a lefty OM.   I got intrigued by the cigar box nation and decided

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3 Replies · Reply by BrianQ. Dec 2, 2024

Pickup wire

Hi, hope your well. I installed a coil pickup in my cbg and while installations, I broke the black wire on the volume knob, I soldered it to the second and third post while I soldered the ground to the back of the pod, all I get is humming thru the a

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3 Replies · Reply by BrianQ. Nov 18, 2024