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Hello everybody!!!,

i'm new at CBGs, and new on the forum, so this is a presentation of my CBG and myself,  i'm from South America, Argentina, i build my first 6 strings guitar 15 years ago as a hobby with ugly results, i want to do a flying V but i come up with an acoustic 6 string flying V ukelele, i mostly repair and building things as a hobby,  robotics, woodwork and electronics, now i have build this CBG from what i learn reading this awesome forum!!!, i said to my self why not!, i read almost the entire forum on a couple of days, and take some notes, it took me two weeks, and this come up, i'm really happy with the results, and has an awesome sound.

The box its a Montecristo especiales nro 2, its electric and acoustic, It has 2 pickups i buy from CBGitty, and undersadle pickup a 3 way switch and a fretboard, everything else was build from scratch, with parts from an old cedar and oak bed and some aluminum i found on the street, its funny how you go looking around for things on the street when you have a project in your mind.

its on a 24 scale, telecaster resemblance, i build the bridge from a bed leg, , and the saddle from a car belt that i cut with a dremel, ,it has regulable action from the saddle, this means i introduce two screws on the back of the guitar passing through from the back touching the saddle fitting into a small hole witch serves as a base , so i can up and down the action and doing also unevenly for the thicker strings.

i use shellac/alcohool to pollish the wood.

One thing i discover setting the saddle into position and tunning it,  is the use of a  screw as a tentative saddle, and start moving it back and forward, and inclination, testing the tuning on every movement from the nut and from the 12 fret until it gives you almost the perfect note tunning, then i draw a line in that position and do the hole to hold the saddle.

The only issue with this configuration is the space between the strings and the box, i have to lower the action to 2 cm on the nut and 4cm on the 12 fret, leaving me with only 7 from the strings to the box, so the box will suffer if i play to hard :-( .

Its true that you learn a lot from your first, and you come up with a sort of procedure or order to do your next one.

my next project is a banjo i'm doing using a Brazilian pandeiro as the base.

Thanks for all the advices and discussions here, i'm really happy and enjoying this CBG!!!!.

spyker