In most videos the piezo disc is sandwiched between the soundboard and the neck running through the box with help of hot glue. This means it is sandwiched between something stable (the neck) and something vibrating (the soundboard).
My question is, w
Read more…This is a bit offtopic from CBG. I got a super cheap (70€) acoustic guitar with great intonation. I am trying to see how much I can improve it. So far I have made bone nut and bridge, adjusted the height of the strings, adjusted the truss rod and cha
Read more…Out of curiosity, has anyone ever tried attaching the neck at a corner instead of the middle of a short side? If the neck goes through the box it would go in at one corner and then go out at the diagonally opposite corner.
(It is 00:13 am here and I
Read more…I am going to order a truss rod for my guitar project. If you have used a truss rod, what length did you use?
Read more…While waiting for my CBG parts I was browsing CBG videos and I saw this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gWign-qR-o
How can it be so loud even thou the neck is dampening the whole soundboard? What mechanics are working there? It goes against all
Read more…While experimenting with my guitar I could not find a plectrum, so I grabbed whatever I could find at that moment and it was a knitter's stitch marker as in this picture:
I grabbed the stitch marker by the more narrow end (where it can open) and use
Read more…If you build a CBG without a tailpiece and with the strings attached to the saddle, how do you get the intonation right? I mean, without a tailpiece you can not move the bridge around until the intonation is good and you can not just put the bridge s
Read more…Most seem to tune their CBG to 1-5-1 (for example GDG, EBE, DAD). As I have understood this tuning fits well for blues and slide.
I am not really into blues, slides, rock, pop nor any rhythmic strumming, I would mostly play the melody of folk songs a
Read more…The CBG I am going to build will mainly be played acoustically without any amp. It might even be that I will never ever use any amp at all. Still I am considering to add a pickup just in case I would end up playing somewhere were the acoustic sound i
Read more…All "normal" guitars have the strings attached at the saddle, right behind the bridge while most CBG seems to have a similar attachment as the violin (where the attachment point is behind the soundboard as a normal saddle attachment would rip off the
Read more…If you have ever added a truss rod to your CBG, what were the circumstances and why did you add it? Does some strings require a truss rod?
Read more…While planning to build a CBG I am reading a lot of theory and I came across a MIT paper about sound hole shapes (https://news.mit.edu/2015/violin-acoustic-power-0210). The paper is for violins, but I think the same principles stand for a guitar. App
Read more…I am trying to find any video where someone has taken the 3 lowest strings (E, A and D) from a full set and then put them on an acoustic cigar box guitar and tuned them to DAD or EBE. I would want to know what they would sound like. Do you know about
Read more…I am middle age man seriously considering to build a 3 stringed CBG. I have a couple of questions about tuning.
When I was young I used to play a normal acoustic guitar. Since then my voice has been changing so much that almost every single song I ha
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