What Glue should I use? What do you prefer?

I am in the process of Installing Frets and markers on a CBG , nickel frets with walnut markers on a white oak neck. Should I use Super Glue , Super Glue Gel, or tite bond wood glue. I will finish with Tru Oil on this one. The fret wire fits ok, but

Pickup Advice Needed For Resonator CBG

Found a couple of nice pie tins recently at goodwill store and planning to take a shot at my first resonator build. While I expect to generally play it acoustic, may want to plug it in occasionally. What type of pickup would be best to preserve that

electric cigar box guitar neck help

When building an electric CBG using pickups, is there preferred way to mount the neck in the box?  Can it be mounted to the bottom of the box?  Should it be?  When I built my first two CBG's, I used a neck through design where the neck went out the b

Question

I am new to this forum, and new to building a guitar.  I have started my first one.  I would like to put the jack hole in the wall while I still have 4 walls not glued together.  I have purchased a pickup with a jack and also a volume and tone contro

Access Covers to Access Wiring?

Ok, so I am onto #27... on its way to being the fanciest build I have done to date (gold Tele pickup, 3 way toggle switch for pup and piezo, scarf joint headstock, fretted fretboard with gold fretwire and pearloid fretdots, etc...). It's a bolt on ne

String rattle

Newbie here, just built my first fretted CBG and had an issue with a rattle that I couldn't locate, This went on for over a week,sounded like it was at the bridge so I tried several different materials and positions.Applied pressure to the box and ne

Set of three Strat style pickups. Can I use one per build?

I'm on eBay after several conversations with folk from CBN and looking to start venturing into the world of magnetic pickups and away from piezo. I've seen some sets of three Strat style pickups with labeling for the neck, middle and near the bridge.

Pickup grounding?

I'm hoping someone here will be able to help me figure out an issue I've been having. I used a pickup from CB Gitty - the same one used in this tutorial - and I basically just nailed the mounting tabs to the wood, like that same tutorial shows. Unfor

Acoustically silent build advice, please?

After what I personally deem the success of my last build (images of the finished article are available on my page) I'd quite like my next build to be as acoustically silent as possible. I live in a downstairs apartment and English law has a noise ab

slides and 3 string CBG's

    I have a 3 string fretted CBG that I bought from ebay a few years back. I am wanting a frettless 3 string one too, and am thinking about the C. B. Gitty basic kit, with a piezzo pickup also. 

    I play 6 string guitar also, and like to play slid

What am I supposed to do with this?! Box puzzle.

I bought a box on eBay last night for my first build and I've not made it easy for myself. It's 300mm x 220mm x 110mm (don't laugh) but the biggest issue is how it opens. It's a top loader and I have no idea how I'm going to be able to cut the space

Can I cover my build with cloth?

Perhaps this is a weird question but, then again, being a beginner I tend to think questions should be asked lol. I'm building an lap steel type instrument but with a tin and a piezo pickup inside the tin. The bridge is going to sit atop the tin and

Why you should use F-holes in your acoustic CBG

I haven't ever built a CBG with F-holes because I wanted something "edgier" and less "traditional". Who wants their gnarly home-built instrument imitating a violin, right?

But I'm changing my mind, based on this article. Turns out, that shape evolved

Optimum lid thickness for best resonance and wood choices.

I'm off to the timber merchant on Wednesday, I think, and was after some advice for wood to buy. I'm looking at making two three string cigar box style guitars and a four string cigar box style guitar. I also want to make my own boxes. For the necks

Strings height and other stuff questions...

Hey guys! Iam in my second build and I have a problem. It's a fretted 25 inch and... I want to know what would be the perfect string height for playing with both technics: slide and fingers?.

And... another thing: my build has a piezo + single coil p

Cedar Box Build

A while back, a member posted a build that He did making the box out of Cedar roof shingles. The instrument had a great sound to it and made me want to build one for myself.

The shingles have a taper to them and would require planing and I don't have

Box Acoustics

Here are a couple images of a box I would like to build into my 1st reso. My question: Do you think the box will play well acoustically? If so, I would probably add a piezo. If not, I would probably add a magnetic pup, likely the Electric Delta from

Pyrography For CBG?

I have been doing this sort of thing with walking sticks and staffs for long time. I have been toying around with the idea of doing stuff like this on the backs of CBG's. I am doing 3 license plate guitars and since they will have 1/4" birch plywood

Oak Flooring for neck?

I am starting to form some leftover tongue & groove oak flooring into a neck. After planing it into a rough rectangle it is a tad wider and a 1/16" or so less deep than a 1x2.. My skills are not so very good, so when I say 'rough' rectangle that's ex

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