My first post here and I thought I would give my (sometimes painful) lessons learned on building my first 3 CBGS. I will do as separate posts so this is called CBG#1. No doubt most, if not all have been done to death elsewhere but the more data the b
Read more…I just did my first build using a lightning reso cone from Gitty and at the end found I had a problem with intonation. I laid everything out first as I always do, used a 24" scale. I was very careful to measure twice and cut once for the hole to hold
Read more…A while back I bought a Delta Grooves neck because, new to guitar building, I wanted to see how nice a neck could be. I finally put this into a nice Tabak box. Humbucker pickups, enclosed tuners, hardtail bridge.
The intonation is so whacked I gotta
Read more…Hello!
I am currently building a small Ukulele and i have some issues.
It would be nice if someone could help me!
This is how it looks so far:
Details:
- 300mm scale length
- 4 nylon strings
- Bone saddle&nut
(The fretboard isnt glue
Read more…Alright Guys and Gals,
So, I shied away from fretting an instrument based off my first and last build I tried fretting. I have been doing just fine fretless and just marking where the frets would be.
Here is my first attempt of a cookie tin guitar
Read more…Trying to figure out is problem in intonation or frets.Neck is straight. Bridge is tune-o-matic. Using chromatic guitar tuner. 3 highest strings are on 12 fret 2 tone sharp.
3 lowest are on 12 fret 2 tone flat. G string sounds weird(not right for my
Read more…I have a problem wherein I made a small cookie-tin instrument about the scale of a soprano uke with steel strings and the first fret sounds two half steps above the open note, as opposed to one (if I tune to C, the first fret plays a D). The rest of
Read more…I have for some time now been building CBGs with a fret scale of 25.5 inches. I also laid out a template for fret spacing by matching it up to my acoustic Fender guitar. The old scale template came off a Samick electric. Same scale length but the spa
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