I just put together a Gitty Psycho Knob. When I turn it on using my Peavey amp it adds a ton of background static. The 5th Heavy Metal setting is especially loud. It sounds like a very bad case of the static you get from a single coil pickup that is
Read more…Have a question about using some birds eye maple wood i have had for a very long time: the wood was cut by my grandfather in Eagle Lake Me in the 50s and he was going to make a work bench: that never happened: i traded the larger planks to a luthier
Read more…I've built a few Ubasses using the Aquila Thundergut poly strings and I just got a query about whether I would be interested in making a similar short scale upright capable of being bowed. Has anyone done something similar and if so what strings and
Read more…I would like to replace the plastic knobs on some inexpensive tuners with hand made wooden ones. Does anybody know a good way to squarish holes to fit the tuner shaft?
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Trying to save some money and I am in need of some advise, leads, tips or what-have-you on AA, 9V, D and other rechargeable batteries and where to buy them. Applications vary from guitar amps and pedals that I will be building. Perha
Read more…I thought I would do a series of posts about guitars I have built that have a story to share.
Eric Von Zipper……
The story here is about the build not the owner, although the owner is me. This guitar has gone through several guises over the past mont
I bought some of these pickups for a project guitar. These pickups are close to the same output as the original Danelectro pickups. They don't use the same magnets. Dano used Alnico VI and then settled on Alnico V while these pickups use a ceramic ma
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I have not done this before, made a solid body CBG. And I have only ever used a real cigar box twice before this one. I had always questioned to myself if I could I even call a solid body guitar a CBG. Maybe I can now.
Here is a slide s
Hello gang!
I made my first guitar, a reso, and I love it. It's got an amazing sound when open strumming, but once I put a finger on a string it sounds much more muted or dead and the sustain definitely disappears. I've never played guitar before, s
Read more…I have acquired some nice but small cigar boxes. I was thinking of using them to build some 2 string "chuggers". My question is what would be good string sizes? I usuall7 build a 24.5 scale length. Want these to be electric guitars. These are not bas
Read more…Has anybody converted a Tupelo/Mountain Tenor kit to Fretless?
If so, do you have any tip or advice.
A while back I came across a video on youtube (I think) where a CBG'r was using a #6 countersink to drill holes for tuners. I could have sworn I saved/bookmarked that video but now can't find it.
Does anyone happen to know the video of which I speak
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I've been hoping, since I started this addiction, to build an LPG, but just can't seem to find a decently priced one when I had the cash at hand. I hope to soon find one, but it appears the price of these things have doubled in abou
Read more…whats the rule of thumb for volume pot sizes? I have been using Gitty 250k with piezos.
Read more…...or "Who the Hell Free-hands This???"
A while back I posted Part 1 to this, covering the mortise block, but stuff came up (chores, pandemic, filing for unemployment...). All two of you showed interest, but I'm all about follow-through, so here's Pa
Read more…I'm a newbie at this so please be patient with me. I've been trying to make my own necks but my woodworking skills are a bit clumsy. I've been able to make scarf joints but I'm very sloppy when I try to notch the headstock for the tuners. How bad wou
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With my last two builds (numbers 3 and 4 for me) the low G string sounds funky. It's in tune at open and at the 12th fret, but in between, it's off, especially at the first few frets.
The D and high G strings are fine up and down the neck!
Read more…Hi All! Someone might have already offered this up, but just in case - and since I'm enjoying unemployment anyway... Here's how to make a guide for super-fast and easy string height set-up on a hardtail bridge such as the type from CBGitty.com.
This
Read more…Todays builds have been an experiment in tunings and scale lengths. Light strung instruments are something that interests me and am now building more and more them and these 3 today are just the beginning.
all 3 instruments are made using Fox's Bisc
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