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potential slide or nut material
Has anyone looked into using Tagua nut for slides or nuts,
here`s a description, Tagua nuts are small (roughly 2″ long) seeds from palm trees in the Phytelephas genus. Beneath the thin, brown, flaky skin of the nuts lies a stark white tissue that cl
Read more…My CBG History
I built two dulcimers from scratch in the early 90s. No instructions, just a borrowed dulcimer to use as a pattern. I bought used tuners and frets from a shop in Omaha, Nebraska. My dulcimers came out pretty okay.
Then I built a travel guitar
Read more…How to deal with a upset client?
Ok, I've been building for almost 7 years just finishing building my 75 cbg, this is the first client I have had that has complained on my cigar box guitar and wants me to redo some things to it, how do you deal with it?
Here is her complaint. I sent
Read more…how to be precise with measuring scale length & frets
I have brass threaded rod for the nut and a .303 shell for the bridge. where do I measure from to get the right location for the frets?
Read more…Lap steel build for grandson...
Still have to do a little touch-up, and assembly, but this is what he's getting. The fret board will have that teal underlay.
Single coil vs. Humbucker pickups...
I've been playing with a cheap Fender Squire Strat. It has 3 single coil pickups and a 5 position switch. Position 1 is the bridge pickup, 2 is bridge and center pickup, 3 - center pickup, 4 - center and neck pickup and 5 - neck pickup.
When using a
Read more…Sweet Home Alabama Tabs
I have seen all the you tube videos but I am looking for a 3 sting Tab tuned to Open G. Are there any out there?
Read more…Question about parallel piezo setup.
When wiring two piezo in parallel. Are the disks stacked or placed side by side?
Read more…Pup redux...
Question about mounting two single coils...
When using 2 single soil pups, a neck and a bridge, depending on how they're wired, can they become a humbucker? Sort of the way radio telescopes miles apart become a huge telescope, much larger than either?
Homemade bottleneck slides
Does anyone here make their own glass slides? I've made one successfully that I'm willing to stuff my finger into. It ended up with one tiny crack that doesn't seem to come all the way to the outside. I use a handheld glass cutter to score the bot
Read more…Mods to CBG kit
Gonna start the CBG kit (full kit with fretted neck), and want to upgrade from piezo. Seen the vid and no problem. Don't like piezo, too noisy.
I do have questions about adding wood as Shane shows.
Do added braces internally affect sound/tone? I't lik
Acoustic Build - Holes/Short Scale Questions
Hi all,
Thanks for the welcome to the gang. Mine I suspect is a common story - saw a CBG at a local festival, my young fella played it and he's hooked. Hence, Christmas present time! And yes, I'm a complete novice.
I'm planning my first CBG to be
Read more…Newbie lessons learned
My first post here and I thought I would give my (sometimes painful) lessons learned on building my first 3 CBGS. I will do as separate posts so this is called CBG#1. No doubt most, if not all have been done to death elsewhere but the more data the b
Read more…HELP!! Going out of my flipping mind(intonation problem)
Finally got this CBG done and strung. The problem is one of two things(in my mind anyway) 1_the strings (Southbound) 2 wound 1 not. Tuned EGg (on edit GDg)
2scale 25 1/2 everything was remeasured frets. At 25.5 12th fret all 3 strings run slightly o
Read more…7 way strat mod. Three volumes one master tone. Where to go with output of SPDT switch?
Redoing the Rusty Rat Box. Going to drill some more holes in that body. The guitar is going to have two switches. One standard five way and one SPDT. Three volumes and one master tone. On the schematics there's one master volume and two tones. Standa
Back to the drawing board, damn.
Hi, at last I found time to finish a cigar box style guitar after months of working on other projects.
My idea was to use a licence plate but try to keep the guitar acoustic sounding, well it plays ok acoustic but not with the quality of the others I
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