Greetings Nation,
Does anyone know where I can get a fat back neck template? Most internet searches come up with ones that are no longer listed for sale. Thanks in advance!
Jim
Read more…So, I am building my new neck. Its going okay. I drilled some holes for some inlays for the fret markers. I was going to use shirt buttons. I drilled the holes, I added some plastic x, which so far is really cool stuff. Then I let it dry. I procee
Read more…Hi, I'm really new at this but love the idea.
Anyway I've watched a ton of videos and I wonder why the fret board is always, it seems, a separate piece of would glued to the neck?
If the neck is hardwood and the fret board is hard wood why the layer
Read more…Rooting through my scaps, I've come across some that I'd like to cut and use for a fret-board. They are thick enough (or will be as soon as I resaw them), but they aren't long enough. As I seen it, I have two options:
1. Glue them together to and t
Read more…I looked around this forum, but honestly, not real hard. But I'm wanting to build my first CBG and when I went to CBGitty and looked at fret wire, I'm not sure which kind I need to buy. I'm just wanting to build a simple 3 string CBG. Any guide here
Read more…I was asked to build a cigar box sitar and this is what I came up with. No sympathetic strings but I kind of got the sitar sound out of the bridge. I used super jumbo frets. If do another one I think will scallop the fret board so I can get the extr
Read more…I just did my ninth fret board and I noticed that the frets weren't being cut all the way through. The previous fret board had super jumbo stainless steel frets so I suspect that may have dulled my cutter. Is there any reason not to sharpen the cutte
Read more…Here I am, just finishing my first CBG and even getting it strung out/tuned up! Will wonders never end?
But now I have enough timber suitable for a second instrument... even have a very thin cigar box. The length of suitable wood for the fret board w
Read more…For a 12 fret guitar and 635 mm scale length this site is at odds with two others. Which is right?
The first three fret spacings (for brevity) from this site are 33.675; 65.461; 95.462
From the other two they are 35.640; 69.279; 101.031
I agree ths
Read more…Hey y'all, so when I started fretting I went with a StewMac fretsaw which does a fantastic job. But I have chronic hand/wrist issues, and the labor of hand cutting the slots leaves me hurting. I watched a bunch of videos a while back and saw one on c
Read more…Hello from cool Halifax, Nova Scotia
Building my second guitar but learning to play still number one.
I was wondering if someone can tell me when you install a pickup, I'm installing a 3 pole pickup I bought from CB Gitty (love that site), should it
Read more…Hey gents and gals -
I'm thinking of adding a zero fret on my second build. I have a Gypsy Jazz guitar with a zero fret (nut, then fret) and never noticed it until recently scoping out fretboards that use this setup... funny because I've looked at th
Read more…I see most of the CBGs have straight necks, so squaring up the frets shouldnt be a big deal. What about if you are making more of a Uke-type neck where one end is wider than the other? How do you get those squared up? Do you mark the frets before cut
Read more…Hmm.. New to me. Have you guys seen this.. Might be of special interest to lapsteel players.
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I am fixing to build 7 gits. 1 cb,3 license plates and 3 Wheel cover resonators. I have always used a bone nut on the 12 I built before this. I am considering using the zero fret,but I am not crystal clear as to how it works. I am going to use
Read more…Every now and then people get to complaining about things not being quite right and never again will they use anything but the right tool for the job
Here then is a list of things which work as fret saws and some that don't and the width of the kerf
Read more…Newbie here. I am working on a CBU. I ordered a fretboard for a cigar box concert uke. Made by another enthusiast online... I asked for a 15" concert scale. Below you'll see a picture. I'm a little confused. There's a fret cut without a fret at one e
Read more…Hello folks.
I just today completed assembly of my first CBG. It is a 3-string fret less acoustic. I tuned it to low open G with a digital tuner. It has a sweet sound and I think I will really enjoy it.
Using a slide, it sounds bright up and down the
Read more…I made concert ukulele fretboard drafting.
Is this correct or is it completely wrong?
Read more…I didn't find right discussion for me.
I have new oak guitar neck with 12" (305 mm) radius maple fingerboard.
frets on neck have never been leveled. Just pressed and glued in slots.
Frets are not big frets that some guitars have. Neck is straight b
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