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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on December 4, 2017 at 8:30pm

Good to hear Tony, can't wait to see it.

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Permalink Reply by Richard Dean on December 4, 2017 at 3:10pm

Almost finished the tele-bat

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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on December 4, 2017 at 8:31pm

That's awesome Richard, gotta play metal on that one.

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Permalink Reply by Lonman on December 19, 2017 at 3:40am

wow, that is pretty sharp, pardon the pun

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Permalink Reply by Paul Cezanne on December 17, 2017 at 6:25am

My first build just came off my workbench!

It wasn't supposed to be this way, I'm "building" a 3 string cigar box, but I'm waiting on a piece of neat ash from a neighbor, but there's no hurry there, and spoke shaves and rasps etc.. from my father-in-law's wood shop. With the holidays there's no hurry.

But I have all the parts for my amp, I can build that, right? But I have nothing to plug into the amp when done. So I figured I needed a single string diddly bo. But... I'm an ex-cello player and so I figured I'd make a cello-bo. 

It's only 2 strings since I broke the middle string tightening it, ordered some cheap sets off of amazon. IT will be tuned CGC. It has a rod-piezo pickup/saddle, door handle scrap metal nut, 3 eye bolt tuners and a brass grommet to pass the strings through the neck. (I couldn't put the eye bolts off to the side since I bought ones that were just a hair too short.) And that means I won't be able to play it on a table since the eye bolts stick out the back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KS05TzjlBg

I had to tie a slip knot in the strings to have the grip the eyebolts, that doesn't seem right. Could use some help there.

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Permalink Reply by Br Harold F Stubbs III on December 17, 2017 at 7:48am

Slipknot would be the correct knot to use for application like this. I love the idea / implementation overall. sounds fun.

What do you need help with?

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Permalink Reply by Paul Cezanne on December 17, 2017 at 8:16am

Right now I only needed help with the strings slipping on the eye bolts, but if slip knot is correct, that's good enough for me. I watched crow's video's a million times and he does this thing with a tiny loop of string but I couldn't get that to hold.

Thanks for checking in!

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Permalink Reply by Kigar on December 17, 2017 at 3:53pm

Check out sailors knots.  A hitch or half hitch should work if you can get a few turns of the string before the tension is too high.  Also a stopper knot can keep it from pulling out.

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Permalink Reply by JL on December 18, 2017 at 3:52am

The idea is the free end of the string is trapped under the first wrap or two to keep it from slipping, multiple ways to do that.

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Permalink Reply by Paul Cezanne on December 18, 2017 at 10:46pm

That's what I couldn't figure out, no matter what I tried, it slipped until I tied the knot in it.

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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on December 18, 2017 at 6:42pm

Good use of Wait Time Award  goes to Paul Cezanne. LOL

I tried the eye bolt tuners on a build, more trouble than it's worth in my opinion. Get a set of sealed tuners from Gitty for a good price.

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Permalink Reply by Paul Cezanne on December 18, 2017 at 10:47pm

I'm with you on that. I have one set of tuners waiting to go on my "real" CBG, and just wanted to throw something together. Cosmetically, I like how they look with the 2x4, but they're a bugger to tune, ok, I've actually not yet got it in tune, just close...

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