I made the mistake many years ago of putting my workshop under the room where my wife watches TV. I am now retired and at any hour during the day I would like to cut / sand / drill. But wife is also retired now. So we have a schedule (fair) so as to
Read more…I had a strange idea for a fretboard.
Kinda like this picture here. switching the color with every fret and placing the fret wire on the edge of the color switch. I got a few pieces of Oak and Smoked Oak. Would something like that eve
Read more…For a 12 fret guitar and 635 mm scale length this site is at odds with two others. Which is right?
The first three fret spacings (for brevity) from this site are 33.675; 65.461; 95.462
From the other two they are 35.640; 69.279; 101.031
I agree ths
Read more…Just finished what I hope to be the mother of all travel CBGs. Pictures are elsewhere - I haven't worked out yet how to combine pictures and test together ;-).
I wanted to build a light, compact CBG for travelling, so using a Jaime Garcia box that I
Read more…Some of my necks are a little too thick. I'm trying to save a step here. I use a 1/2" router bit to round over my 3/4" neck but when I add my 1/4" fretboard onto it, it seems too thick. Do you route the neck after you glue the fretboard onto the neck
Read more… I found this on the internet and thought I'd share it for an idea for a nut/zero fret.
Hi, I haven't built a solid body guitar for a while, so here's one now.
This has been built for my grandson and it may not come as a surprise when I mention that he plays cricket very well, and plays guitar great too. He sent me a video of a guy play
Read more…After reading an article about the humble pick, the history, various materials used, shapes, etc, and the predicted affect on tone, I decided to use a piano key top I’d found on the ground near the site of a piano demolition many years ago, and give
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It's been a couple of years since I built my own tambourine-based banjolele.
Since then I've fended off several requests to build copies for others, but I few weeks ago I caved in and took on two commissions from uke club members.
I thought I'd
Read more…You can make 19 different chord sounds between open and the fifth fret. All of them by fingering one or two notes wile leaving the low string open. Even more if you start fretting the low string. But that's for another time. Instead of laying out all
Read more…I'm making my very first attempt at scarf joints for twin CBG's at the same time. Do I cut down the head thickness before or after I make the angle cut?
Read more…Any Florida builder or players wanting to organize a group or just keep in touch.
Read more…HI,
I have just completed my first CBG, and made a passable attempt, it even plays!
I am getting ambitious for my next project and want to build an upright BASS. Does anyone know of some rough plans to get me started, with details of scale and strin
Read more…Hi wanted to share a fiddle I just put together. Previously I built a 4 string guitar and a ukulele. But since I play only the fiddle... seemed like a good idea to try a violin.
1. I decided to buy a neck, since the neck itself seems even more diff
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I have just finished my first CBG at 63 (just a young lad I know) have made a decent job and its playable, I just need to get better at it.
Next project is an upright BASS 1,2 0r 3 string (what’s your thoughts?) Any help and advice greatly apprec
Read more…Does anyone have the tuning frequencies for GDG tuning? I use medium gauge strings (no5,4,3 from normal pack) the 5th keeps breaking when I try and tune it to a G. I now tune my middle string to D the try and time the low string to the D on the seven
Read more…Help! I just got my Founder's Faith cigar box guitar. While tuning the low G string, it broke. I purchased another set and I am afraid to push it past the D tuning because that is where it snapped the first time. When I go back to the lower G, the st
Read more…Ok. I want to build a guitar with a piezo and a mag pick up using this system. Anyone wire one of these up?
Thanks for any help.
Read more…So far, my builds have all been fretless for the slide so nylon strings never came up; however, my last parts purchase had a set of ball-end nylon strings at the bottom.
May fret a neck just to stick them on and was wondering if anyone has used them
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