Lunatic L Chiquito I got one of these lunatic L Chiquito full body boxes and I was wondering if anybody has ever used them to make a guitar. They seem like kind of a weird shape but a cool box and I wasn’t sure how it would sound. Wondered if anybody
Read more…Anybody have experience with these necks? Go for anywhere from 50 to 70 bucks on Ebay, AliExpress and Amazon. Chinese. Heres the AliExpress link. AliExpress CBG Neck Looks like its got a truss rod?
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
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I want to make my first Fretboard and have a few questions for you.
I use the following tools: Miterbox, various tamplates and a saw in 0.58 mm from G & W Portugal, see attached pictures.
Now my question.
The first cut, in the Fretboard i
Thinking of making this for my son in law Looking for a vintage can to build a mic to go with it
Read more…Got one of these...
...and as usual, I haven't the faintest clue as how to mount it. I completely understand how to mount the tuners and string it, but how to attach it to the main body? I'm also cheating a little and making a couple templates fro
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I have written about one-string cigar box violins, a.k.a. "Vaudeville Fiddles" here in Cigar Box Nation and also my book, Making Poor Man's Guitars. The instrument was a novelty feature used for comedy by
Read more…I have 4 grandkids. My daughters kids are very young, but my sons' kids are boy 9, girl 11.
Talked to the wife and she's on board with this...
Gonna give son's kids instruments. Girl gets a 3 string CBG that I build from kit, boy gets lap steel. Bo
Do hard woods like oak not accept medium fretwire as easy as maple, poplar?
The fretwire currently being used on an oak fretboard will not penetrate to stay in place despite using the same .023 saw as previous builds.
Trying to determine what's diff
Read more…Hi, over on the Building 101 site, Rich Butters asked about plans for a 3-4 string CBG, I could not work out how to address that to him on that page [whatever its called] as there was no Add+ button as I could see so it would have landed away from hi
Read more…99.9% done. Need to ground strings, maybe a couple fake f-hole accents between pup and bridge, and maybe a couple rubber feet on the butt.
My 2 string bass calls to me softly, and I am going to play with it a bit.
I built it fretless, mostly because I don't play. I bought some nice decorative tacks as well as some silver thumb tacks, and I am thinking of using them on the side of the ne
amp cab i made from an old 1940/50's draw, speaker is an old FANE 15 ohm, amp is a simple lm386 with a 9v battery, i added a gain control too, i stained and waxed it, sound's quite nice ,
As usual,video surfing on YouTube at 5am and this caught my eye and thought it would have some useful applications. Like name plates, custom volume and tone control plates or even the metal wings on the bass tuners.Etching metal(click here)
Read more…If you're giving a guitar kit, parts or anything DIY for the Holidays, here's an idea to add to the package. We've created a "Full Access to My Woodshop" gift certificate for you to download and print.
The certificate tells the recipient that you
Read more…Couple months ago, very early in this whole adventure, I bought a $30 acoustic guitar with the intent of converting it to lap.
It arrived damaged, and they just sent me another one free, so I have 2, 1 needing a tuner replacement.
So I saw those Gr
Lots of fall chores so I changed my habits and work hobbies in the morning. Chores after lunch one of the things I needed to get was firewood. This is the first year that I have used aspen as a firewood. When it was delivered he started throwing the
Read more…Looking at fret measurements from StewMac, it seems that if using metric, fractions of mm are virtually impossible to place correctly.
Because mm's are so small, I think that a simple '+/- .5mm is close enough on a steel.
Fret #9 (10.135mm( becomes
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