I’m planning on making my first glue on fretboard. My question is on how to add the nut. One video I saw showed the builder notching the fretboard then using a bolt set in the notch. I’m using the glued on board as a way to lower the string height. S
Read more…First warm day of the year here in the UK so I got some build time in the garden.
Came up with 5 Diddley Bow Canjos. One was in my normal style, more like a 1 string cigar box, but the other 4, I went a little more traditional with the design. From w
Read more…I have a couple of Lost City cigar boxes - they're really lovely, but looking at the inside it seems as though there's a false bottom or something - the bottom of the box is definitely thick, but seems hollow.
I'm considering just drilling or cutting
Read more…Without intending to step on any toes, just thought I’d pass along a close substitution for the Blues Blaster LMM GDG nickel wound strings that Gitty has been out of for a while. I waited as long as I could, but when I was plum out of strings, and ha
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I'm thinking of building a (non-kit -- although the Gitty G-Bass kit does look fun) two-string cigar box bass.
All of the builds and plans I've noticed run the neck through the box, but I'm thinking of going with the "neck on top"
Read more…I picked up a few great boxes at my local flea market, and one of them has this nasty smoke smell to it. It's not too noticeable, but I'd like to get rid of it. Does anybody have any tips for removing the smell from the wood?
Read more…I'm pretty new to building and would love to hear from anyone who has encountered what I just did. Here's the story...
I built an electric 3 string fretless using an Undercrown box, oak neck, CB Gitty snake oil humbucker and chrome hardtail bridge.
Read more…Hi guys - Dogleg Steve here - firstly I hope that you have enjoyed the music and videos that I have posted on the site!
I play 4 string Cigar box in a picking style and want to have a go at building my own custom CBG this year and also later an elect
Read more…I just finished a build, but have a problem. I tried a 24" scale instead of my usual 25.5. No matter what I do, I cannot get the guitar to sound right. Strings to tight, to loose, different guage ???? Never gets right. Intonation is perfect on all f
Read more…Hi all, here is a look at my latest project in the jig building department, and as the title suggests you may never need one......... but you never know.
I have built one before, but that worked using my belt sander, and there are plenty of those to
Read more…Hey guys, thanks for recent advice on the gain pot wiring, works a treat. I also followed the wiring diagram to put in an out jack. That doesn't seem to work. I really just wanted it for headphones, but when I plug them in, it cancels the speaker but
Read more…See any problems using a single eyelet screw to route two strings off head prior to nut for guidance?
Read more…it happens all the time. You need a screw or six to fasten the lid on the box, or want a screw to go almost but not quite through a piece, and the only ones you have are big honking screws twice as long as required. Try cutting off a screw, often as
Read more…The Anti-Body Guitar by David Hopkins
"About a year ago, I had about 2 dozen cigar boxes that I needed to clean out. I didn't want to throw them away so I googled what to do with cigar boxes and landed on a cigarbox ukulele kit from C. B. Gitty. I
Read more…Does anyone know how high the nobs and slide switches protrude on the preamp from the mounting surface?
Read more…Does anyone know how high the nobs and slide switches protrude on the preamp from the mounting surface?
Read more…Has anyone tried using a cookie tin lid rather than a paint can lid on a banjo type CBG? I know paint lids are easier, but has anyone gotten any good results using a cookie lid?
Read more…For those of you who use the wooden bottoms of the paper-covered boxes as soundboards, what do you do with/about any markings on the bottom? For example, on the Arturo Fuente boxes, there's a "burnt" scroll shape with full brand name and serial numb
Read more…Are there any other members on this group that are from South Africa? Would love to connect to find out more about what local timbers you guys use
Read more…I use to twist the connection wires of pickups to get less hum. What would be the sense of making a humbucker, be it flat or not, and then spoiling the signal by exposed unprotected wires?
Are those loose wires from pickups protected by strong belie
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