Hi All,
I'm going to build a cigar box bass and my plan is to reinforce the neck with carbon fiber rods.
Does anybody have experience with carbon fiber rods? What kind of glue do you use to glue them into the neck? Epoxy? Titebond? Something else?
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I'm looking for a way to record my CBGs with my Macbook Pro. Googling for solutions I found this thing called iRig HD2 (link). There are a lot of very good reviews of this little gadget out there - but it's rather costly... Does anybody have
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After building three four string guitars, a three string guitar, an eight string mandolin, an ukulele, and a diddley bow I feel ready to graduate to building a six string.
The only problem is that I
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I have this pretty nougat tin from France lying around here and it yearns to be made into some kind of stringed instrument. I’m thinking short scale guitar with nylon strings, either a four stringer or a s
I found this funny instrument in a box with random stuff from my parents’ house. My uncle brought it back from his travels when I was a little boy, I think. As far as I know it’s from Argentina.
This would probably be illegal today, I know. I’m prett
Happy holidays everybody!
I have these deer bones lying around here (the meat around the bones was our Christmas dinner...) and I was wondering whether I could turn them into nuts and/or bridges for guitars... Does anyone have any experience with dee
Read more…Hi all, Does anybody have experience with putting some kind of weight into the box to balance a CBG? My second build turned out perfect, nice low action, perfect intonation, great sound and so much fun I haven't touched my "real" guitar in a while.
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