hey guys about to start a build with a fretboard and was wondering whats a good material to use that is easily obtained through lumberstores, or even easily found materials? i am not a tool master either so gotta keep things kinda simple lol
Read more…Well heres a new one on me, but imagine the possibilitys!
Fretboard convertable from Diatonic to Chromatic? Removeable Micro tonal inserts? Maybe even fretted to fretless? (Maybe not, might work!)
How about a Diatonic convertable from pure diatonic t
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I skipped the beginner's forum and went straight for the Super Advanced because I am a pretty advanced mad scientist/tinkerer type.
Romeo is made from a Cedar Romeo & Juliet Medallas de Oro box.
I used the bottom as the sound board so I could hav
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I don't know if you have seen Bairfoot Cajun's fan fretted CBG (shown below and a video at this link), but it seems pretty cool and has gotten me interested in trying to build one in the near future. Before I do, I want to make sure I know ho
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Right now I'm in one of my "experiment phases", trying to master (well, learn) playing fretless CBG without the slide. Keeping all 3 strings low with my fingertips is not so much a problem, the spacing is.
In some
Read more…1/4" is standard in the regular guitar world. Would 3/16" look more in proportion on a narrower CBG neck?
Read more…Hi all, I am new to the forum. I have started several CBG projects with kids in my after school guitar club. Yesterday supplies arrived on my porch for a new and completely different project. I fell in love with the RoadToad Kala U-Bass (ukulele B
Read more…I am hoping that someone can tell me the size pots I would need to drive 2 four pole pickups,I just finished winding them and need to know if I need 2 tone and 1 volume pot and there K's.
I like the idea of building a bridge with a piezo in it, and was wondering how others do it. What size "diameter" piezo would you use for that? How recessed should the gap for the piezo be, and is it glued in place with a flexible glue, or a hard glu
Read more…I just finished making my self a dandy little pick up winder that I made with a $ 9 sewing machine,it has a foot speed pedal to boot every thing works well.My question to you guys is this, does it matter in what direction you wind the wire onto the b
Read more…Does anyone know what size bolt would work good on a fretted board, not sue what courseness the bolt should be either. thanx
Read more…I thought I'd post this in "advanced builds" group, not because I'm an advanced builder, but I thought this tool could be helpful to people. My father has an electric coping saw that he mounted into a small table about 55 years ago. He used it for c
Read more…I am making a bowed dulcimer that will have an arched fingerboard. Tapered, too. I am thinking of starting with a ready-made viola fingerboard and going from there. I'd like to have frets, too. So how would one go about making accurate frets on a cu
Read more…In a few of my articles i have just "used" pictures from the CBG album. I just download interesting pictures and then when i come to identify whose pic it was it becomes an almost impossible task (There are "zillions of pictures up there) When i down
Read more…I'm at the point now where I'd like to make a tapered neck. I only have a very inaccurate table saw (50+ years old, park district woodshop). Would I be better off working with the band saw instead? (Sorry if this is a more rudimentary woodworking dis
Read more…I want to build a cigar box banjo with the old style wooden peg tuners. Has anyone made these without buying expensive tools? Any hardwoods that are favored? Does the headstock need to be hard or softwood? Thanks, Wade
Read more…After working out the kinks of grounding the strings to the pick-up, I've pretty much settled on this system. I start with a piece of hardwood 1/2" to 3/4" thick and large enough to fit width of fingerboard string spacing and Height that will allow m
Read more…Hey guys. Well it seems that with each guitar I get a little bit deeper into electronics. The further I get, the more I learn that I really need to be shielding everything and grounding out to the strings, which I guess ends up using the player's bod
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