At a geezerly 77, I have arthritic hands and a punk shoulder, thus requiring a short instrument neck to compress frets and a short reach on my fretting hand's arm. My instrument of choice is a ukulele, but my favored sound is from a full-sized guitar
Read more…I'm building a couple of Bento Box ukes from C.B.Gitty. I have not glued the box, so my pictures have it held together in some painter's tape. But I wanted to show it off as is, partly to help people decide if they want to stain or paint before buyin
Read more…I'm building a ukulele for a friend out of a Johnny Walker box. It originally held 10 mini bottle of liquor but it's basically a cigar box.
So I see two ways to go about the build:
1) Get the Gitty kit and use all those parts
-OR-
2) Build a neck th
Read more…This build was a double-first. My first ukulele and my first build with a real cigar box. I usually build my boxes from scratch. My deepest respect to those of you who build with them exclusively. They're kinda cranky things :-)
Anyway, nothing too s
Read more…I'm hoping to do a cigar box uke project. I have some guitar tuning machines lying around in great shape. Can you use guitar tuning machines on a ukulele?
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…Hey folks, Ben/CBGitty here - this is the first edition of the Cigar Box Nation newsletter, which we'll be sending out periodically (probably once a month) to try to help keep our ever-growing membership in the loop about some of the biggest things
Read more…Have made a couple of sopranino/ piccolo Ukes with 27 cm (11") scales and have been tuning them with reentrant dgbe high tuning (an octave above a 4 string standard guitar but a uke style higher d string. In terms of playing this effectively makes t
Read more…Hi,
Building my first CB uke and when I strung it the the action lifts signifcantly.
The neck is bolted and glued and is firm as are the nut and bridge but the neck lifts under tension.
The sound board is the bottom of the box which was the deeper po
Read more…So... I was looking for an excuse to avoid chores on Sunday and I remembered that my lady had some cigar boxes that she picked up to do something artsy with but never did. I've been picking around a bit on ukes lately and wondered if I could come up
Read more…I'm working on a ukulele and I've cut the headstock in a classical style but now the tuners have come in and I've realized I can't get them. I've seen others do this, like the pics below:
I've got the same pegs but cannot figure out how to get them
Read more…When your friend asks you - how do I play the chord, say Bb, on my ukulele -- you can go here, enter the name of the chord, finger positions and (optionally) which fingers he/she should use, then press 'Submit' and send the resulting link to his/her
Read more…Hey all. i wanted to share with you my build pics from my latest gourd ukulele as shown below. here is the link.
much care was taken to make it very light and strong. you can feel the neck resonate due to its hollow nature. it plays like a dream and
Read more…I have only just put on a discussion about trying to find strings for this ukulele because i thought i was on the home stretch. unfortunately, i have just discovered a rather major problem that i need some advice on.
the angle of the neck is too sha
Read more…Can ukulele tuners be used for a CBG? Meaning, are they strong enough to hold the low string without it backing itself off under tension? I like the fact that they are often straight tuners with the key hidden at the back of the headstock (is this
Read more…I'm building my first instrument. It's going to be a tenor ukulele, which I'm calling a "banjolele" because the box I'm using is a rectangular tin that once held Whitman's candies. It measures 10" x 8.5". I've got all the materials I need at this poi
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