Posted by Jerryrig240 on August 10, 2009 at 3:47pm
My first CBG? Not so great......#2 if you were a ape with huge hands, you might find it nice to play, but still...I think even a ape would give up on it after a few mins.....needless to say...those to cbg's are in peices now...I had to make room any way and I am going to use the parts for bigger and better things. Kinda sad in a way...so help me feel better that the parts to these and the learning curve is going to make it worth while when I use them for another project, then another, then one day I will be a master builder.
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I am staring at one right now leaned up against the wall about to become a cigar box birdhouse.
It will make a far better bird house than a guitar.
How many oak bird houses have you seen?
I've stripped the hardware off several of my earliest builds to use on others and now the skeletons hang on the wall of my back porch. The're being "antiqued" by the weather
I am in the process of rebuilding my first 3-string build. There are photos of it before I starting rebuilding on my CBN page. I made a lot of mistakes on it that I am going to try to fix in the rebuild. I'm going to put a fret board on it to fix the action and slot the headstock.
I thought of scrapping parts out on it, but I like the way it sounds too much to do that. I would suggest trying to fix the things wrong with it instead of just scrapping a bad build. I think it helps you become a better builder. Just my opinion, though.
yep,, I am a member. I still have my first, but upgraded it with a total make over, the action is still way to high for fretting, I may just hand it to the nephew and let him have it. Any modern parts I have purchased, gets moved to a new build. Any thing hand made, gets left behind.
Think THREE times, measure twice and cut once. ;o> (That's what my dad always taught me. But I still have trouble with the first part.)
I have not harvested yet, but I often cast a wandering eye on some of the earlier builds. Sometimes I think I can still fix them. But so far I have just moved on.
soundssogood said:
Screwing up is how we all learn for sure we all do it and we all learn from it , if we did not screw up how would we progress part of the whole building experience is screwing up lol! just keep at it - it's like learning to walk or ride a bike you have many a fall before you get the hang of it , just dont take it too serious and as always measure twice cut once ! juju.
I've just built one, but I'm happy with it. It shows off my mistakes and I'm going to keep it as a reminder and because It's my first one.
If the second one and so on turn out not so great I'll probably strip them if I need the parts.
Screwing up is how we all learn for sure we all do it and we all learn from it , if we did not screw up how would we progress
part of the whole building experience is screwing up lol! just keep at it - it's like learning to walk or ride a bike you have many a fall before you get the hang of it , just dont take it too serious and as always measure twice cut once !
juju.
Yup, me too. First one I ever build played like a stabbed kitten. I threw it in the corner, built another, ironed out the errors, then went back to number 1 when I knew what I was doing!
Its all worth it my friend!! :o)
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I am staring at one right now leaned up against the wall about to become a cigar box birdhouse.
It will make a far better bird house than a guitar.
How many oak bird houses have you seen?
I thought of scrapping parts out on it, but I like the way it sounds too much to do that. I would suggest trying to fix the things wrong with it instead of just scrapping a bad build. I think it helps you become a better builder. Just my opinion, though.
I have not harvested yet, but I often cast a wandering eye on some of the earlier builds. Sometimes I think I can still fix them. But so far I have just moved on.
soundssogood said:
If the second one and so on turn out not so great I'll probably strip them if I need the parts.
part of the whole building experience is screwing up lol! just keep at it - it's like learning to walk or ride a bike you have many a fall before you get the hang of it , just dont take it too serious and as always measure twice cut once !
juju.
Its all worth it my friend!! :o)
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