I'm a newbie at this so please be patient with me. I've been trying to make my own necks but my woodworking skills are a bit clumsy. I've been able to make scarf joints but I'm very sloppy when I try to notch the headstock for the tuners. How bad wou
Read more…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
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I'm not handy or crafty at all, and I know even less about guitars. So naturally I decided to build a cbg for my daughter. Mistakes were made and corrected and now I have a lovely guitar. The specs: 3 strings, 30 inch scale, the neck is
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My husband is a guitar player (as a hobby), and I've pretty much bought him all the accessories he wants over the years. Our anniversary is in less than a month and I'm at a loss on what to get him. I got the great idea to get him a unique ci
Read more…I'm figuring this all out as I go, for I have never played a guitar or any other plucked string instrument.
1.Diddly Bow.
I mostly built this diddly bow over the weekend. I substituted an eye bolt tuner because I wanted to see how one worked. Otherw
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I am using an eye bolt with a washer either side of the neck. It is secured with a wing nut.
Almost immediately after hitting the note and fully tightening the wing nut the rig loosens and drops the note back by a half step (think that the r
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Well, my name is Sachi. I've been lurking for a couple of weeks but in the last couple of days i have started posting a little bit.
So, i wrote a book of a post. Please feel free to skip down to the 4 questions if you don wanna read alla
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Hi Everyone!
Had lots of fun reading through the forums. I have tried to find out all the questions reading up on it and searching the forums, but I didn´t find the answers to the following questions:
1) I have a box (see picture) which is hinged
Read more…hi, my name is mark and from from uk and got my first cbg yesterday. The short question is, it tends to sound very light and tinnie so i would like to base it out to give a heavy blues sound. obviously i need to change the strings but if i can desrib
Read more…So a neighbor boy GAVE me his ill-treated, never used "First Stage" brand (like sold at Target) electric guitar, something of a Telecaster knock-off. It's been gathering dust because I have good guitars to play, but I was thinking I could tear it up
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