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CBGs by nature involve recycling old boxes. Here is a place to share all your ideas about recycling everyday objects into guitar parts. Eye bolt tuners, drain cover soundholes, rusty spanners as bridges, paint can resos... Share creative ideas here.

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Broom Wire Frets

Started by Monterey. Last reply by Monterey Mar 24, 2015. 1 Reply

I used broom wire from an old straw broom for frets when I made my Appalachian Mountain Dulcimer. I pre-drilled the holes with a finishing nail a little smaller than the wire. They used broom wire…Continue

Wire coat hangers?

Started by Paul H (PRH). Last reply by Order99 Jul 26, 2011. 7 Replies

It seems that they are pretty useless but I generate wire coat hangers, any ideas of an application for these? Weld them for sound hole screens? Frets?Thanks,PRHContinue

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Comment by Wichita Sam on May 18, 2011 at 7:03am

Rick,

 

Wow!!! that makes me want to run home, pull down the shades and never, ever come out again.

 

Do you think playing checkers have any "potentially fatal hazards"?

 

the best,

 

Wichita (tongue in cheek) Sam

Comment by Rick Hayes on May 18, 2011 at 4:02am
I just saw something about wiring piezos that made me think. From past research on wiring mainstream electric guitars, I found info on shock hazards from using a grounded bridge as a way to quiet the instrument. I don't want to disrespect anyone here, I have learned alot but this info could be important to gigging musicians who might end up in a place wired by an unqualified person. Two reversed wires somewhere and the juice goes thru your bridge into your strings and hands, and grounds on the next metal thing you touch. Check this out if it is a concern. Shock Hazards
Comment by Rick Hayes on May 17, 2011 at 3:26pm
Don't know if this belongs here or on a lap steel site. Maybe I should be too embarrassed to say but I just a Simpson DOH moment. I have been using and liking a lap dawg slide, but recently found I was catching it on the strings if I played single strings. I don't want to commit 20 bucks to a bullet bar and find out I don't like it-then I realized-here comes the DOH!- I have been playing and loving a cut off Tabasco sauce bottle for a lap steel bar. I have been holding the bottom away from me- the rounded cut off neck end in my palm- HEY- turn it around and I have a curved end that won't catch the strings. Can't use the tip but it does a good job. I have seen others, since, using this bottle and I recommend it for lap playing if you like the sound of a glass slide.
Comment by Matte Resist on March 7, 2011 at 8:14pm

Speaking of which... here's my recycled lap steel.  2x6 scrap I pulled from a dumpster, zither pin tuners (new), angle iron nut (from dumpstered bed frame), carpet tack fret markers (from dollar/bag sale at an estate sale), candy tin (gift at work I think... ate the candy.)  The bridge screw, piezos, wire, jack and hinge were all new.

 

Comment by Matte Resist on March 7, 2011 at 8:10pm
Looks good Rick.  I thought about using one of those shelf brackets (mine actually came from an old umbrella still clothesline someone threw away) but I went with a piece of a bed frame instead.
Comment by Rick Hayes on March 7, 2011 at 5:18pm
Got 7 kids and a budget of about $0, so I'm always looking for ways to make music happen cheap. A couple ideas that work for me- pine is underestimated, a tabasco sauce bottle with the neck cut off makes a good lap steel bar, and aluminum shelf bracket (the part that screws to the wall), makes a good string guide/nut or bridge combo. I hope the picture shows what I am talking about.
Comment by Justice Crafted on January 29, 2011 at 3:27am

Hey,

I've been a recycler (packrat) for many years but I'm new to this group. I was stranded for a while and couldn't join up right away. I dig the creative ideas here!

Comment by sad sack on September 2, 2010 at 2:27am
hey pat, it was with me at the festival. sorry you didn't see it. it sounds just like my other guitars, for the most part.

it was great sharing a stage with you two, have a great weekend of shows.
Comment by Purgatory Hill on September 1, 2010 at 8:20pm
Sad Sack, i LOVE the pipe 3-stringer!!! How does it sound?
Comment by sad sack on June 17, 2010 at 8:11am
the only parts not recycled on this guitar are the tuners and strings. the pipe was all salvaged from my house. the pickup and jack were removed from a cbg that didn't play well. the wiring came out of my old recording studio. i found the brass for the bridge and nut in a junk box in my basement (which is full of junk, literally). now, feel free to blast me because there is no cigar box in this build...

 

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