Update on cbn member “ Maddog's “ Wife.
Sadly, on Nov. 23rd CBN member, fine builder , and friend “Maddog” suffered the loss of his wife “Janet”, after battling her illness since diagnosed in Sept . As you can imagine, he could use some word
Read more…I've been thinking about doing a double-course canjo; any suggestions on what strings I should use? Most obvious would be a regular guitar's low- and high-E, but I'm wondering if the can will hold up to those. Anyone done this before, have any advice
Read more…I never fret my own necks, I either use broom handles or lengths of pine for fretless and slide instruments, I want to do more serious builds and fretting my own necks is where I will start. I'll start with Diddley Basses and work my way up.
I know I
Read more…Just got Shane's book and am where he's talking about mounting rod pieces a thru neck. Shows carving a notch in the small support under the bridge.
What I'm going to try is taking small square molding, cutting 2 pieces to fit across the neck a
Read more…Hi
I’m really green with learning CBGs (never played anything with strings before).
I’ve done okay learning a couple of simple songs, but I’m not have a lot of luck getting real clean notes when I try to use on finger across all three strings.
Any t
Read more…I found out years ago that the small tubes of C A - superglue are invariably dried up by the time I get to use them, so I buy it in the little bottles in liquid form. That can work out a bit expensive, so I tried the stuff pictured here, its from the
Read more…I would like to build a 20 scale cbg for my next build, just wondering about, which strings to use, how to tune, etc. just getting started in building this will be my 3rd. Trying to teach myself to play, with the help of this group. I travel so I t
Read more…A Christmas Present to myself ……
Well it’s all finished except for new resonator strings once I’ve played it in for a while.
This is the first guitar I have built for myself in about 12 years, and the first acoustic guitar built for me in 39 years.
I see many builds with long narrow bridges directly over the piezo pickup, what is difference between that shape and a round bridge that would be over a round piezo?
Read more…Good day everyone. I'm in the process of making a 4 string electric cbg for someone. I have used a bolt with 2 eye bolts for string retention on my 0 fret builds. I find they sometimes bind when tuning. So I have never used the roller type string ret
Read more…I recently built a cigar box kalimba and used a round piezo attached with two-way tape to the soundboard prewired to a 500k pot and a jack. It sounds great, but it has a lot of handling noise. Everything I touch on the instrument is picked up by th
Read more…I have a custom build of one of these, the head is a little different, and I had him make it dulcimer strung and fretted (the high D's on top, easier on my arthritic hands), but I'm thinking about doing a minor conversion to it, and I'd like feedback
Read more…This is my latest guitar, which includes an idea I had for an on-board distortion module.
I had previously built a soft distortion unit as a separate pedal and it worked pretty well. So I thought I would try to add one to the guitar and house the Sto
Read more…Hey everyone, I took some time to create a printable 18 inch scale fretting template for my latest build. The thought crossed my mind to share it with the nation. No sense in keeping this for myself. I made this template using the stewmac fret
Read more…Just wondering what the 2.5 w amp board from cbgitty sounds like when distorted. Ive tried other chipmamps and some distort nicely e.g. LM386, but others do not e.g TDA2003.
Read more…Hybrid fretboard, since I cannot play chromatic. I can noodle fairly good on diatonic, so the fretting would be that, but the board slotted chromatic, and those chromatic locations have their slots filled, colored and made flush.
Experimenting with ho
I ain't got the skills to fret yet. Wow what a major PITA.
Tried the zip ties in fret slots. Works, but it's depth sensitive. Thought I could sand them down, but they (at least the white ones) start to hold crud and lose visibility.
Also, even though t
Nearing the end of my current build, and starting to plan a 3 string paint can lid reso. I need plans/pix/advice about internal structure. I have a 8x10 craft box, thick sides but rather thin top/bottom. Gallon size lid (6.125" hole). Looked at the r
Read more…Neck mortising jig
Just finished building the jig to try my first mortise (and bolt just to be sure) joint. If anyone's interested in following this little adventure, let me know and I'll post the whole step-by-step once the deed is done. Or I explod
