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"How do they DO it?!"

About 6 months and 5 builds into my CBG obsession, I've been making very good progress, especially considering that I did not come from a technical or mechanically-inclined background. Plus, I've met some very helpful and fascinating people since I've joined with CBNation.

That being said, when I look at the photos of other peoples' build here, and see just how bloody gorgeous they are, I want to pull my hair out.

In fact, I feel just like Robert Crumb in this comic strip he did about his hero Harvey Kurtzman, the cartoonist and founding editor of MAD...

I sincerely hope I'm not alone in this.

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Permalink Reply by KaptnKen on December 24, 2010 at 10:13am

Every build is a learning experience for me. I just finished my 5th as a gift for my son-in-law and in many ways it's much better than what I previously built and thought was just wonderful. Each build just gets better and better. Don't try to rush it, it'll come. I kinda try to focus on one or two aspects of a build to improve on...this time it was dual piezos in the bridge. Next time I need to focus more on my fretting. But I find that if I start to obsess about doing something "perfect" then it never turns out half as well as I know I can do and I don't enjoy the process. And I enjoy this too much to do that. Have fun. Make joyous noise.

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Permalink Reply by Mark Bliss on December 24, 2010 at 10:57am

In my earlier post I mentioned Woodcraft when I meant Woodsmith. Woodsmith.com (I think thats right) has tons of woodworking tips and ideas, they publish nice periodicals as well.

There is also a large amount of information at, or available through:

Luth.org

frets.org

stewmac.com has a free tips section, In fact they just sent me a newsletter link to an article on guitar label making.

Theres is also good stuff at Luthiers mercantile.

The list goes on, I will add more as I think of them.