Long time guitar player here, but I'm mostly an electric bass player these days. Anyway, someone posted a link to a Samatha Fish video on the TalkBass forum a couple of weeks ago. That put a burr under my saddle re- CBG. I have a tad of building experience, I made two electric bass guitar bodies last year. Paired with bolt-on commercial necks, that was fine and worked well.
Anyway, low and behold last week at the community garden, there's a wooden cigar box sitting on the "Free" shelf. The guitar gods had spoken, apparently.
Anyway, I snagged it and used the community shop CNC laser to burn an F-hole in it yesterday. Soaked some hardware from the junk box in vinegar night before last to age it. That worked well. Next up - hunting for neck wood. I think I'll buy a pre-slotted fretboard to epoxy to the neck.
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Position markers laid out on the fretboard and upper side of the neck. Light coat of Danish Oil to seal the wood in preparation for CA gluing the markers.
Neck is walnut. Sadly, not exactly quarter-swan. Almost exactly 1.5" by 0.75". Rear of neck has only been rounded over with a 3/8" "router bit, so I have some shaping to do. But it seems appropriate to do the markers first, while the back is still mostly flat.
Interesting thanks. Not too worried about the unplugged sound, frankly. I'm prone to practicing while others are sleeping. If it's too "responsive', I'd likely wedge the top with some foam or whatever.
Seems that it'll look funny with the FB not snugged against the box. I guess it's a cigar box, it already looks funny.
Re- markers before fretting. Totally agree, but I bought a pre-fretted neck, so I was kinda stuck.
Good afternoon in the shop.
- Neck shaped. All done with orbital sander followed by hand sanding in grain direction.
-Walnut supports cut and glued into box. The tail one is cut back on the lower half to allow more room for controls.
-Neck cut back for box top and also cut back at angle to (hopefully) give better string angle, higher bridge etc. Found good advice on this somewhere. I marked the one end 1/4" deep and the tail end 1/2", then hit it with the big bandsaw. According to my (poor) geometry, 1/4" drop across 8.5" is somewhere in the ballpark of 1.5 - 2 degrees.
Hi Lark, if I want to raise the bridge height I would tilt the neck back. If as you explained you lower the tail end that would tilt the neck end up. Raising the string action, so would mean lowering the bridge to get the desired action.
Tilting the neck back lowers the strings to the frets, this allows for a higher bridge setting. Maybe that's a typo re your deeper recess at the tail end. Forgive me if I have misinterpreted your meaning.
Cheers Taff
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