Can tap tuning be effectively applied to a CBG? The only thing I can see that might be done to effect the tuning of the soundboard is adding bracing. Does anyone have any thoughts or experience in applying this technique to a CBG?
A web page discu
Read more…I am new to amps
but because i am going to buy one (see this thread)
i started thinking about it, and i see there are so many possibilities and i got courious
What kind of Amps and related gear (Effects and co) do you use and what Sound do you get wi
Read more…So my most recent build seems fine without a sound hole. After I put it together I gave it a play, and I just don't hear a need for the addition of a hole in the body. The body is 1/4" ply, which seems to resonate just fine and produce plenty of sou
Read more…So I've gotten some sound holes from Gitty, but I want a kinda in-between size that is hard to find.
As you can see in the attached pic, I have the big pretty 2" monsters, and the little small ones that are, I think, about 1/2". But I'd really love
Read more…this is my latest build - a cohiba red dot box. after hearing the way it sounded with no hole in the lid, i just couldnt make myself cut into it. after holding my phone and cupping my hand around back to direct the sound, i had the idea to build the
Read more…Hi, I've spent the last few weeks researching CB Ukulele's looking at various sites, tutorials, videos, this forum etc... so have most of my first build questions answered. I've just acquired my first cigar box (La Invicta, red cedar with plywood b
Read more…Last night I put together a quick build using an old "Canadian Club" gift box that my wife had been holding on to for a few years. I already had the neck built for a hubcap guitar so there wasn't much to do to finish it up.
The box is 9" square, and
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I am currently working on my first CBG. I built a soprano uke from a kit a few months ago, and then I started on a restoration of an old family banjolin. Needless to say the luthier bug has infected my entire person. In attempting to restore
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Would it improve the sound from my CBG by adding a saddle piezo . I already have two disc piezos under the lid below the bridge or would this be a kind of over kill??
Thanx/Ralph
Read more…Can't figure out how to see my posts on the resonator box group, so I'm reposting here.
I've been testing my hand built box with a tuning fork, looking for bridge placement sites. I have found a few areas that vibrate very well with nice tone. Nex
Hey all. I recently built two 4 stringers that are 22.5 inch scale length. I gave one to a musician friend and still have the other. Both guitars have been played with, and both guitars have had the same problem. Before I go on, I am not really a
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…When I was cleaning out the basement a while ago, I found this old brandy. I was wondering if it'd make a decent body... maybe if I ground notches into the ridge to hold strings that could be a bridge. I'd drill a hole in the bottom and run a thread
Read more…I've had an idea for a new design and wanted to see if anyone had tried this yet... My next guitar is a Firebird inspired guitar and what I wanted to do was move the sound holes to the top side of the body, parallel with the neck... So that when you
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