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  • Thomas "Duck" Petry August 5, 2017 at 8:03pm

    Thanks Brian, It was done as a "beater" that I could just throw in the back seat when we went places.  It's a Partagas "Gigante" box (fiberboard), the neck is a cheap white pine 1x2 with an Oak fingerboard, fretless and done with some leftover stain I had laying around the shop. I have a double piezo pickup in the bridge and it sounds good acoustically or amplified.  The volume knob was made from a Nesquick chocolate milk bottle cap.306632814?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024306633912?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024306635509?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024

  • Thomas "Duck" Petry August 5, 2017 at 4:45pm

    Hi Bill.  Here's how I did one of mine.  I added blocks to the back of the neck to attach to the back with screws and screwed the lid of the box to the neck to keep it closed.  Easy to open if you need to and keeps it simple.306631985?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024

    • Brian Revels > Thomas "Duck" Petry August 5, 2017 at 7:50pm

      I like that headstock Duck...Looks like a nice build overall too. 

  • Gus K August 5, 2017 at 1:53pm

    I see no reason for gluing the neck.  I screw mine from the top with countersunk drywall screws. The neck goes all the way through to the back and is firmly fastened  by the tailpiece screws.  Screw #3 goes into a scrap of wood that extends to the bottom, it has been glued in.  I also like to use these corner braces, which again screws into a glued scrap.  I's very solid and can be opened for any maintenance. 

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    • Bill McNamara > Gus K August 5, 2017 at 2:00pm

      Are you cutting out a piece of the neck so it fits in the box? Or just the notch to fit it on the cover?

      LOL.. I just should have stuck to building computers.

    • Gus K > Bill McNamara August 5, 2017 at 3:28pm

      Yes.  In my case I first notched the neck so it sits flush with the top (just a couple of hairs higher).  Then I added a fretboard with some overhang..  For yours it looks like he actually had to cut a notch into the one piece neck.

    • Don Craig > Gus K August 5, 2017 at 1:59pm

      Beautiful work Gus.  As far as glues or screws, to each his own.

    • Gus K > Don Craig August 5, 2017 at 3:09pm

      Thx, I already had to open it up once. :)

  • Don Craig August 5, 2017 at 12:09pm

    I think he slotted the neck so that the soundboard lid slides in like a tongue.  Then dropped it into the box frame.  The outside screw would fasten the bottom lid to the frame; the inside screw to the interior neck piece. I would have also used glue.

    • Bill McNamara > Don Craig August 5, 2017 at 12:22pm

      Is that a good way to do it? Or does it put a lot of presure on the soundboard?

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