Hello all. I've been reading through this site for the last few days, tons of good info, but I'm finding I still have a few questions in my mind I haven't seen answers for.

I'm going to make a CBG for my brother for Xmas. The actual building of it, I can do. Not like you old pros, but I've been working with wood most of my life. I have a full wood shop, I'm confident in my ability to put together some sort of CBG. Here's the trick, I'm not musical at all. Can't play a note. My brother is a guitar player and he plays a 6 string quite well. Which brings me to my questions:

I know some folks like 3 strings, some like 4. From a musicians standpoint, which is better? I'll make either, but would prefer to make the one that would appeal more to the musician in my brother.

I plan to make it 24.5" string length. I mostly just picked a number right in the middle of the popular designs. The fret calculator wants to know how many frets I'll have. I don't see much mention of this on the forums. Is there a standard number of frets? If not, what is a good number for a playable guitar?

My neck will be mahogany, I'll rip it to one inch strips, joint the faces then glue them together so I'll have a one inch thick edge glued slap to make the neck from. Not being a player, I don't know what a comfortable string spacing would be and therefore don't know how wide to make the neck. What is the space between the strings, and how far from the edge of the neck should the first and last strings be spaced?

Thanks all. I hope these questions aren't too tedious.

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I think you may be on to something Wayne. Burlap may be just the thing I'm looking for. In fact, now that I think of it, I even know where to get the burlap. I think I'll stop by the coffee shop tomorrow and try to find a scrap of sack with a cool coffee logo on it. Brother and I are both coffee nuts and he used to work at the coffee shop, so it would sort of belong.

As for the electrics, you may be right. I may want to go with a pick-up over a piezo. I need to stop by the music shop anyhow for some tuning screws. Maybe I'll price pickups as well. I'm hoping to find tuning screws off an old abused guitar in their repair shop. I'd hate to put new shiny pegs on a guitar I've tried so hard to make look old. ;-) Maybe I can also find some old knobs and pickup as well.

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