I've been making cbg for almost 7 years, I just finished my 75th one, I have sold all but 8, it's been a fun journey, learning experience and I keep learning something new.
So for my 75th I wanted to try something new, I redesigned the inner working
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…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…Magnetic pickups, both single-wound and humbucker, are becoming a more and more popular addition to a CBG build. Both are now inexpensive and offer several advantages in terms of tone and absence of unwanted box noise.
Installation is relatively easy
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Read more…I bulit this witch with a cheap noname single coil pickup and as you can see on the pics it is not really well positioned. I don't know exactly why but its sound is very low witha lot of bass. You hardly can hear the high E. Once I tried it in bright
Read more…I'm trying to wire up my 3rd CBG. Every diagram I have come across for humbuckers has a switch connected. Can I skip the wire and do it like a jazz bass? It looks like I need a third Pot which is totally doable, but I'd rather skip the switch if poss
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 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'm hunting for materials for my first build now, and was wondering what I should do for tuning and such. So far I have some fretwire, tuning pegs, and an EMG Select humbucker pickup. Originally, my idea was to make a stick dulcimer/dulcitar, but now
Read more…I purchased an Alnico Mini Humbucker from ebay a couple of months ago. It was described as the Bridge end, but I am only installing one near the neck/fingerboard.
Now that it's installed, and I am ready to wire it, I am left scratching my head. T
Read more…Can you wire two piezo pickups in series like you can single coil pickups? If so would it work to simply wire the ground of one to the jack/switch/knob/etc. then wire that hot from that pickup to the ground of the other pickup's ground wire, and wire
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