Looking for ideas on a wish list for Christmas ideas.
What are some items that have made your builds easier?
I have a good drill press and belt sander, always thought about a small table planer but maybe too rich for request to wife.
Any thoughts on
Read more…Hey All, a question please:
...next CBG will be a doubleneck. what kind of tuning you prefer for that?
regards fom old germany,Norbert
Read more…I have been working on these since I finished my 12 String Biscuit Tin during Quarantine. I wanted to get the sound of the 12 String and scale it down to something more familiar and whilst I have a few other ideas on how to do this and will be trying
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I have spent hours searching again, (my search skills suck). Looking for any info I can about cutting the headstock and adding a zero-fret to a C.B. Gitty fretted neck. There are several firsts here in my build history. First pre-made nec
Read more…this unit has a under bridge piezo as well as a microphone..
has anyone tried on
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First, this seems to be a wonderful community - I really appreciate all the resources here.
I am just finishing up my very first guitar - waiting for some pieces/tools I just ordered from CB Gitty.
While I do own an electric miter saw, electr
Read more…So, I am building 50 ukuleles for the kids in my community. I am working with a local music teacher that will be providing online lessons doing all this crazy. Feel free to check out the Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/Keep-the-music-going-A
Read more…I’ve used MGB pickups on a bunch of builds. I have been putting the metal pick up covers on them that they sell like in the picture. One thing I notice is that when you play them you can get a tinging or clicking noise as you’re jamming and hitting t
Read more…I built a really nice upright bass thing from an ebay cello neck and a chunk of wood. Everything is fine except it will not stay in tune. I think either it's the cheap tailgut stretching or the design of it itself is flawed and it's bowing. The neck
Read more…I see some people embed piezo discs in the tail end of the neck under the bridge. Other folks attach them to the vibrating sound board. The bridge makes sense to me on one side, but it’s usually then butted right against the neck and not free to vibr
Read more…decided to go back do an old favourite before I moved onto my next new idea.
complete set of M&M collector tins, each with a piezo and a broom handle shoved into them. Always a fun build. This is the 3rd time I've made a set of them and the 4th set o
Read more…Hey All, Down with a pinched nerve so figured I'd use this time to put up the next part of the story on CBG set-up. If you're looking to dial in your next build, this covers what's going on with 'action', how to measure your string height, and how to
Read more…Hi, this is one of the most useful time saving tools I have purchased in a long time, and it was only around $50au.
When gluing or applying lacquer to an instrument under repair, I always like to have it at the best angle to aid glue flow, clamping,
when I measure the scale length using a metal bridge like the one pictured do I measure from the zero fret to the front edge of the bridge, right where the strings come out? Right where they make last contact with the bridge?
Read more…I have been working on this since Lockdown. lots of cutting and sanding and gluing and screwing and swearing and some bleeding and that was just making the body and I'm a little out of it as I type this because of the amount of clear gloss I sprayed
Read more…Like many people I use bolt bridges. however recently I've been concentrating on finger picking and find that, quite often, either of the G strings will slip across the threads. My current bridge has quite a deep thread, M8 Now this may be due to my
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Does anyone have any advice on preventing or even minimizing fret sprout? I've made 4 guitars so far, and all developed fret spout to varying degrees. My most recent build almost immediately!
This last one and the one I am working on are gi
Read more…Howdy...I am building a two string, short scale, stand up ( well...sit down) bass. I want to mount a Gitty bass pickup under the strings but on top of a short L bracket which will be mounted to a block on the inside wall of the narrow box. This L bra
Read more…Hi, a while ago I built a 3 string CBG for a mate of mine for his birthday. He's not musical at all we mainly share an interest in off road motorcycling. After a year of playing his CBG and him being a woodworker he asked me to help him build a CBG.
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