its been a long time since I was last on here. hope everyone is ok and safe through all this pandemic. not made a guitar for well over a year. this was my last one that I made. most of my guitars are made of solid wood and tins. well thats it for no
Read more…Hi, I was looking at antique chisels online the other day and I was amazed at the prices some of them command. I went to my tool rack and pulled out all the antique ones and cleaned them up.
I must say it turned out to be an impressive collection. See
I am building my second slide steel guitar as a gift for a friend. BUT I have made an error, and angled the pickup in the wrong/non-standard direction, will this be a problem? I am thinking of making the hole bigger and making a mounting ring to cove
Read more…......Fitted the Parlor's to the tree. Sort of.
Have a good one Taff
Previously I built a viola da gamba using 1/8 inch paneling as a facade covering the straight sides made from toe kick.
It's neck was made from an ax handle using neck-through construction and worked fine.
I used that 3" radius blue plastic tubing
Read more…My first actual CBG is the one below. The neck is a hefty 1.64 inch x .754 hunk of wood. I built it with a Low D Med A and Med D strings. It's as flat as Kansas from nut to tailpiece.There's enough room for another tuner... Questions: I plan on addi
Read more…Since my work on the 12 String Canjo, I been learning a lot about course String instruments and I must say Its all quite interesting, but I am finding little to nothing for Cigar Boxes, Canios, etc, except for the occasional mandolin, my 12 String an
Read more…Another Guitar Story.
The Pacific. D18 circa 2014.
As with many of the guitars I build this one is to commemorate something special in the owner’s life.
This guitars name The Pacific, it is not only a name of a gold mine in my district, as are all my gu
I recently bought some precision carbide bits on eBay and saw they could match my string diameters quite accurately. I still establish my slots first using my junior hack saw which has a 0.6mm kerf but I finess the slots to the right width and round
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I see the thread about the "One Puff" amp and it has me thinking. Is there a kit getting around for this, or is there a very low watt tube amp kit around?
I want to build a small valve amp, but if I need to I may go solid state. but I think
Read more…Coming a bit late, been back to work, been busy, but here are the last of my holiday builds; 6 over 2 days and 26 overall.
Due to the tins I have used and the length of the necks I prepared for each of them, I ended up with a variety of instruments.
Read more…Hi, I don't know how or what happened but I now viewing the site as I used to. Everything is in its place ans photos videos are showing.
Whoever fixed it take a bow. Now where was I?........
Taff
Wanting to put a finish on this box that will work on the labels too. Looking for satin not a glossy shine.
What do you suggest and should I do it before I build the guitar or after? Does it matter?
Read more…A Bunch of Banjos.
Here are some banjos I have built and finished this year.
A Minstrel Banjo – Cigar Box style Banjo - Wood Top Banjo – Parlor banjo built using a Ceiling Down Light [LED] and a rebuilt mandolin banjo with Cedar top. Now my lacquer
Hi just testing the posting of a photo. I hope it works.
Taff
Looking good so far....pushes add button and holds breath..........
Have a question about using some birds eye maple wood i have had for a very long time: the wood was cut by my grandfather in Eagle Lake Me in the 50s and he was going to make a work bench: that never happened: i traded the larger planks to a luthier
Read more…I would like to replace the plastic knobs on some inexpensive tuners with hand made wooden ones. Does anybody know a good way to squarish holes to fit the tuner shaft?
Read more…I thought I would do a series of posts about guitars I have built that have a story to share.
Eric Von Zipper……
The story here is about the build not the owner, although the owner is me. This guitar has gone through several guises over the past mont
Part One....
I have not done this before, made a solid body CBG. And I have only ever used a real cigar box twice before this one. I had always questioned to myself if I could I even call a solid body guitar a CBG. Maybe I can now.
Here is a slide s
A while back I came across a video on youtube (I think) where a CBG'r was using a #6 countersink to drill holes for tuners. I could have sworn I saved/bookmarked that video but now can't find it.
Does anyone happen to know the video of which I speak
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