So a neighbor boy GAVE me his ill-treated, never used "First Stage" brand (like sold at Target) electric guitar, something of a Telecaster knock-off. It's been gathering dust because I have good guitars to play, but I was thinking I could tear it up
Read more…So today I visited three cigar shops, A440 tuning fork in hand, listening to the resonant qualities of any promising-looking box I could find. Yes, I got some strange looks, but I'm used to that. Never one for moderation, I came home with 14 boxes th
Read more…About to build my first instrument, and it occurred to me looking at this stuff before I start that my plan must be to surround the cigar box with new tools until it relents and becomes a diddley-bo.
Looking at violins, I see that the f-holes are usually around the saddle, but on CBGs, they tend to be more toward the neck. Any ideas about how it might affect the sound to place f-holes kinda on either side of the saddle more like on a violin? Seem
Read more…Is it appropriate on a 4 string CBG to use the general same sort of string spacing at nut & saddle as on a regular acoustic? My dad & I are about to build my first multi-stringed CBG and I was thinking I'd base the string spacing on my Larivee D-19 (
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