Guitar kits - Cigar Box Nation2024-03-29T08:54:07Zhttps://www.cigarboxnation.com/forum/topics/guitar-kits?commentId=2592684%3AComment%3A3434203&feed=yes&xn_auth=noI'm always buying little thin…tag:www.cigarboxnation.com,2020-02-10:2592684:Comment:34436722020-02-10T20:55:03.005ZPaul Craighttps://www.cigarboxnation.com/profile/PaulCraig
<p>I'm always buying little things here and there from them, first time to buy a kit though since I usually build one myself. Couldn't pass up the price for a neck that's already made and the Mahogany wood to make a body and neck would cost me about the same price.</p>
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<p>I'm always buying little things here and there from them, first time to buy a kit though since I usually build one myself. Couldn't pass up the price for a neck that's already made and the Mahogany wood to make a body and neck would cost me about the same price.</p>
<p></p> Oh yeah, I remember those now…tag:www.cigarboxnation.com,2020-02-10:2592684:Comment:34436692020-02-10T20:51:19.281ZPaul Craighttps://www.cigarboxnation.com/profile/PaulCraig
<p>Oh yeah, I remember those now.</p>
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<p>Oh yeah, I remember those now.</p>
<p></p> It was the Chiquita travel gu…tag:www.cigarboxnation.com,2020-02-08:2592684:Comment:34429192020-02-08T03:53:52.283ZDavid L.https://www.cigarboxnation.com/profile/DavidLloyd
<p>It was the Chiquita travel guitar.</p>
<p> Also used by Marty McFly in Back to the Future and more recently McFly the UK pop band from the last decade.</p>
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<p>It was the Chiquita travel guitar.</p>
<p> Also used by Marty McFly in Back to the Future and more recently McFly the UK pop band from the last decade.</p>
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Great for people like me who always forget something on their order! Well Stewmac had a sale on th…tag:www.cigarboxnation.com,2020-02-07:2592684:Comment:34429132020-02-07T19:46:50.542ZPaul Craighttps://www.cigarboxnation.com/profile/PaulCraig
<p>Well Stewmac had a sale on their solid body guitar kits and their Gibson SG style kit was on sale at half price($169) and the shipping was free. I couldn't resist that. I've been wanting an SG since I was a teen. Almost got one back in the 80's, but it sold before I got back to the music store the next day.</p>
<p>The wood is all Mahogany and all the routes are tight and line up correctly, which is good when it comes to kits. One of the tuner holes are a bit off, but doable. The headstock is…</p>
<p>Well Stewmac had a sale on their solid body guitar kits and their Gibson SG style kit was on sale at half price($169) and the shipping was free. I couldn't resist that. I've been wanting an SG since I was a teen. Almost got one back in the 80's, but it sold before I got back to the music store the next day.</p>
<p>The wood is all Mahogany and all the routes are tight and line up correctly, which is good when it comes to kits. One of the tuner holes are a bit off, but doable. The headstock is squared off for my choosing of design. The hardware is decent. The 2 humbucker pickups are overwound(12k/12.5k for both), but I got a set of dual rail humbuckers from my friend Vladimir at Deneb-Tone pickups(<a href="http://www.deneb-tone.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.deneb-tone.com</a>) to put in this guitar. I'll probably ditch the ABR style bridge for a Rollor bridge and put a Duesenberg Les Trem in place of the stop-tail piece. The output jack goes on front of these guitars and the wood is only 1/4" thick there so they can tear out. So I'll bee moving the jack to the end side like a Les Paul has. I'll fill in the extra hole on the top with an extra 3-way switch(on/off/on) for a small varitone type circuit. The neck is slightly bowed back, but that should be fixed with a trussrod adjustment and strings.</p>
<p>The guitar body and neck are lighter than I expected. The neck is bound and the inlays look great. All it needs is a little filing on the fret ends and replacing the plastic nut with a Tusq one. The top isn't suited for a stained Cherry Red transparent finish like I hoped it would be so it'll get painted. Not sure which color yet, I have some nice Blue Metallic, Pearl White and I got a container of Blue sparkle to choose from.</p>
<p>All about the pickups with some videos:<a href="http://www.deneb-tone.com/dual-rail-humbuckers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.deneb-tone.com/dual-rail-humbuckers</a></p> Are you thinking about the Lu…tag:www.cigarboxnation.com,2020-01-17:2592684:Comment:34342802020-01-17T21:33:47.123ZPaul Craighttps://www.cigarboxnation.com/profile/PaulCraig
<p>Are you thinking about the Luge? They had a 3 string guitar for kids to learn on and they had Diatonic fretting.</p>
<p>Stewmac does have Uke, Mandolins and acoustics in kit form, but those are a bit expensive compared to Gitty's CBG guitar and uke kits.</p>
<p>I like the Squier 3/4 size guitars for kids, which you can pick up cheap in yard sales or pawnshops and you can easily convert one to a 3 string, 4string or one of those group pairings Cubano Guitar with some Lipstick Tubes.</p>
<p>Are you thinking about the Luge? They had a 3 string guitar for kids to learn on and they had Diatonic fretting.</p>
<p>Stewmac does have Uke, Mandolins and acoustics in kit form, but those are a bit expensive compared to Gitty's CBG guitar and uke kits.</p>
<p>I like the Squier 3/4 size guitars for kids, which you can pick up cheap in yard sales or pawnshops and you can easily convert one to a 3 string, 4string or one of those group pairings Cubano Guitar with some Lipstick Tubes.</p> Looks like you got something…tag:www.cigarboxnation.com,2020-01-17:2592684:Comment:34344982020-01-17T21:25:57.519ZPaul Craighttps://www.cigarboxnation.com/profile/PaulCraig
<p>Looks like you got something good started Taff.</p>
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<p>Looks like you got something good started Taff.</p>
<p></p> Guitar kits are for the tinke…tag:www.cigarboxnation.com,2020-01-17:2592684:Comment:34342032020-01-17T10:26:39.847ZCause the Blue rathttps://www.cigarboxnation.com/profile/CausetheBluerat
<p>Guitar kits are for the tinkerer in all of us. Something that can be put together and even customized. There was a very short lived mini guitar craze sometime in the late 80's. Centering around one brand and ZZTop. Forget the name of the guitars. They were kinda weird looking.</p>
<p>Need to check out the mini kits. Guessing kind of like your very own electric ukulele? Also think this is a marketing idea to make uks look cool. :) Doubling up the strings could make a cool sounding three…</p>
<p>Guitar kits are for the tinkerer in all of us. Something that can be put together and even customized. There was a very short lived mini guitar craze sometime in the late 80's. Centering around one brand and ZZTop. Forget the name of the guitars. They were kinda weird looking.</p>
<p>Need to check out the mini kits. Guessing kind of like your very own electric ukulele? Also think this is a marketing idea to make uks look cool. :) Doubling up the strings could make a cool sounding three string ukulele. Even better for a full sized CBG. </p> Hi Paul, kits are great for g…tag:www.cigarboxnation.com,2020-01-17:2592684:Comment:34339542020-01-17T04:39:22.892ZTaffy Evanshttps://www.cigarboxnation.com/profile/TaffyEvans
<p>Hi Paul, kits are great for getting someone started in guitar building, I have an instance that demonstrate this. </p>
<p>As a gift to my son, who lives on the other side of Australia, I sent him the cbg you see in the photo as a kit. He is a mechanic and his shed was full of motorbikes and such. But from that kit a seed was sown and he built the cbg he's holding in the middle of the second photo.</p>
<p>Then two years from the kit project he sends me the third photo of his most recent…</p>
<p>Hi Paul, kits are great for getting someone started in guitar building, I have an instance that demonstrate this. </p>
<p>As a gift to my son, who lives on the other side of Australia, I sent him the cbg you see in the photo as a kit. He is a mechanic and his shed was full of motorbikes and such. But from that kit a seed was sown and he built the cbg he's holding in the middle of the second photo.</p>
<p>Then two years from the kit project he sends me the third photo of his most recent build. All stemming from a simple kit guitar.</p>
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<p>From three to six strings Taff</p> Our CBG's can be modified to…tag:www.cigarboxnation.com,2020-01-16:2592684:Comment:34339112020-01-16T19:15:57.106ZPaul Craighttps://www.cigarboxnation.com/profile/PaulCraig
<p>Our CBG's can be modified to accent 3 or 4 groups of 2 strings.</p>
<p>My first attempt at making a Dulcitar had 3 groups of 2 strings and most Mandolins/Bouzouki's have 4 groups of 2 strings on fingerboards of the same width as our CBG fingerboards.</p>
<p>So why should we try more strings? Bigger/fuller sound. It's harder to play lead guitar work on a 12 string guitar, which is why some people would have a double neck guitar to use the 12 for rhythm and 6 for lead. Maybe we could use that…</p>
<p>Our CBG's can be modified to accent 3 or 4 groups of 2 strings.</p>
<p>My first attempt at making a Dulcitar had 3 groups of 2 strings and most Mandolins/Bouzouki's have 4 groups of 2 strings on fingerboards of the same width as our CBG fingerboards.</p>
<p>So why should we try more strings? Bigger/fuller sound. It's harder to play lead guitar work on a 12 string guitar, which is why some people would have a double neck guitar to use the 12 for rhythm and 6 for lead. Maybe we could use that in our CBG World. 6 string(3 groups of 2) for rhythm and 3 string for lead or maybe a hybrid setup of strings on one neck. </p>