I am going to built my first CBG. A frettless 3 string.
My Box has 30x20cm (about 11,8x7,8 inch)
1.I want many playable frets. Is 19 to much? That would mean joining point (neck/box) would be 21?
What would be a common amount of playable frets
2. I d
Read more…I just installed a Strat style bridge on a guitar I made and I got lucky, it worked out perfectly! Not knowing exactly how to place it for height relative to the finger board and scale length, this is how I did it.
The wood of the fingerboard was 1/
Read more…Hi guys, was just wondering about biscuit bridges......I cant quite nail down whether the biscuit should be hardwood or not....am planning to use a metal type bridge over the biscuit.....any advice?....will probably use a dogs bowl or ashtary for the
Read more…I've built 3 cbgs so far and haven't grounded any of them. This one, the one I'm moving the bridge on, really needs to be grounded. And I'm not 100% confident I know the right way to do it.
I'm going to take a stab at it though: I need to solder a wi
Read more…So today i saw a video of shane speal, in which he told about the whammy bars they sell at C B Gitty, i emediately went back to my old design. I am planning on using a rod thru the thru body part to attach the pivot point, one of the bolts that attac
Read more…I have five builds ongoing at the moment, but my first build has encountered a bit of a stall. The trouble is that I mistakenly cut the neck (which is not tapered) to the proper width for a typical fender nut without taking into account the hardtail
Read more…Hmm.. New to me. Have you guys seen this.. Might be of special interest to lapsteel players.
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Hey everyone.... TRYING to do my first build and I might have jumped in the deep end too soon. At any rate I decided to do a hard tail bridge set up. I've never even owned a guitar with a hard tail bridge before ..... and I'm wondering where to posit
Read more…Does string action matter on a slide guitar? My personal preference is high action--1/8" at the nut and 1/4" at the bridge. I did make one CBG that had low action, but I found it difficult to play. Since then I've gone with high action on my slide
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Hello.
Sorry about my English.
I'm from Brazil.
My name is Alcides Cursino and I 'm making a piezo bridge for CBG . I wonder if I should put 1 or 2 piezos in bridge for better sound .
I'm trying a stick-on-top banjo with a 7.5-inch non-Danish, non-gourmet, non-premium, non-butter cookie can. For the flying bridge, I have a wooden handle salvaged from a cabinet door, but it skates over the smooth surface of the can bottom.
Would it
Read more…So, I have found that on some builds, after all the careful selection of boxes and doing what I can to insure good acoustic tone and volume that the string pressure on the bridge tends to deform the soundboard and the bridge ends up sitting on the th
Read more…I've been wondering recently about which factors in the making of a CBG contribute to it having good sustain.
My top guesses are:
Hi has anyone any idea if you would be able to use either of these (maybe with spacers?) as a bridge/ saddle pieces, thanks.
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…Hullo Folks. I have a small question regarding a rod piezo bridge/saddle that I intend to make.I noticed that Chickenbone John when he makes his, it is a small shaped block of solid wood with the piezo rod embedded inside with a bone saddle on top an
Read more…Thought I would share with y'all something that I think works pretty well with the piezo disk pick up from C.B. Gitty. I've always thought that even with the disks buried in leather/foam/etc. was still a bit too "boomy" for my tastes so I started ex
Read more…I Have old guitar body for 24.7" scale neck and new 28.7 baritone neck. Bridge humbucker hole is routed out. I wanna use p94 pickup. I need to make new bigger tail and bridge mounting holes. I wan't to move the birdge only 3mm-1cm that neck would be
Read more…I have been building and experimenting for a couple of years now.
1) I am curious for peoples thoughts on the best set up heights for the nut and bridge.
2) Having experimented with many materials, what is the best nut material and bridge mater
Read more…I was looking for pearls on the net and found this:
http://www.lutherie.net/afterlength-scale.html
So Dude calls the strings on the non-business side of the bridge "afterlength." He goes on to state that it matters on violins but speculates that it
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