Check this out!
http://www.mandolincafe.com/ads/106838#106838
I found it in the mandolincafe.com classifieds.
I gotta say--VERY tempting!
Anyone know the builder? Anyone know the history?
Read more…I have been away from this forum for some time so I thought I would add some help for people building an instrument for the first time.
I will also be away from this forum for some time again as my internet sucks on my only device (my phone) until I
Read more…Just finished my first guitar. The neck is level with the top of the box, maybe a scant 1/6 " higher. My bridge is 1/2" high. The strings are 3/8" above the fretboard at the last fret and 1/6" above the first fret. Is this normal? I know I could
Read more…I've started to get interested in building a git with an Altoid tin. I saw them online a long time ago, and I heard a guy play one at a blues fest. Really cool!
One I saw used a piezo, and something about a bottle cap on the piezo.
Anyway, what's t
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My first attempt at building a $20 cigar box uke, per the instructions posted by Shelley Rickey: EPIC FAIL!!
I blame myself entirely! Here's my post mortem:
1.) I used an old pine 1x2 that I found in my basement, left from home improvement pr
Read more…I've been looking in lots of places for a used, even a little beat-up, 5-string banjo neck I can use to put on a cookie tin to make a 5-string cookie tin banjo. I have a 4-string that a friend made for me years ago; I tune and play it as a tenor gui
Read more…Hi! Noob here! I was introduced to this site/board by folks on ukuleleunderground.com. Cool site, this!
I have plans to build using cookie tins from Christmas. But first...
1.) My wife and I bought her grandmother's house some years ago. There
Read more…I'm planning to build a resonator cbg and many questions come to my head, but my main question is: does it make sense to use a magnetic pickup? If I want that dobro sound, maybe a piezo will capture it better. Am I wrong? Any answer will help me. Tha
Read more…Okay, after failing to pull of a crisp scarf joint with either: hand saw table saw band saw by slicing the neck stock at an angle, flipping over the cut piece and gluing the two back together. I can just never get a perfect cut, and even after sand
Read more…So I'm currently ordering another Romeo Anejo box because I'm really frustrated with how sloppy the pickup hole came out. I only have hand tools, no jigsaw or router, etc. Does anybody have any advice on how to be more precise while cutting the holes
Read more…Just got finished cutting my wood to size for a solid box resonator. I'm building it using a dog bowl. Will it work, as in produce a decent sound, even though the only part of the build that will resonate is the dog bowl itself? If I seal all joins i
Read more…I've been kicking around the idea of a double neck instrument for a while now, first inspired by Daniel Culbert's quad-neck uke. I've got several ideas running through my head (I know, I know...BUILD THEM ALL! lol) like three-string slide and four-st
Read more…Hello all, I'm in the planning stage of my first build and have a question about the neck.
I'm planning on making mine with the neck through, a fret board and a heel(?) on the bottom from the inside of the box to somewhere out the rear. I've seen pl
Read more…How do you measure a decimal on a ruler. For example how do you measure 1.431 inches?
Also for fret marking is measuring to the 1/100 place okay or do you have to mark it to
1/1000 place? Thanks.
Pat
Read more…I hope I'm posting this in the right spot, thanks David for helping with navigating the site. I've started a 4 string reso (both firsts for me) my previous builds have all been 3 stringers. I've been searching the site and still have a few questions.
Read more…This should hopefully be a quick and easy one to answer. I've been using Tung oil finish on the wooden parts of the CBG. But, it seems to me like that would be the wrong thing to use to add a protective coat to a paper covered box. What's the best fi
Read more…So I just finished my first 4 string the other day. I dont know if it is the Humbler pickup or the 4th string but I dont know that I'll go back to 3 strings.
So I've been playing it now for a couple days and everything was fine until the High "D" str
Read more…I built my first CBG fretless and it worked great. I had an old 6 string guitar that I took the frets out of and used my scroll saw to cut the slots in a 1/4" hard wood piece and glued it to the neck. It worked great up to the 12th fret but after tha
Read more…I'm gathering material for my very first CB guitar build. I have one ask, so 1x 3 oak really the right size for a 3 stringer? It just seems to be thin for a neck. I've never actually seen a CBG in person so I'm having a hard time accepting that 1 inc
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