It was suggested to me that one of my designs might benefit from a built in speaker, so I had a couple of questions about how to go about it.
For starters, I was thinking about breaking apart and rehousing one of those mini amps you see on ebay, but
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My second build I guess is technically a canjo - 4 strings and a real fancy tin. I was considering putting electrics in it but wasn't sure if a disk piezo would work as well in a tin compared to a box...would it sound OK or should I conside
Read more…Before I start, please note I haven't blown anything up YET, I'm just checking to see if I'm likely to blow anything up!
So I bought a couple of these pups:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Pre-wired-Piezo-Pickup-Transducer-w-Volume-Knob-for-Cigar-Box-Guit
Read more…Hey! I'm Holly, and I'm brand new to the world of cigar box guitars!
Been playing various instruments for years and I'm currently building a Les Paul copy from a kit, which so far has been fun, but very, very, almost obnoxiously easy, and aside from
Read more…I did try searching for the answer to this hut could not find it, so sorry if this has been asked before!
I'm hoping to make my first CBG soon and I'm trying to keep it pretty simple, going more or less by Crow's 1hr CBG instructions.
However, I've b
Read more…I've been looking around for something to make my ever-tapping foot do something useful and I need some opinions on the best option. Inan ideal world, I would probably use a kick drum, but I don't own one and I don't intend to buy one unless I need t
Read more…I've been reading bits and pieces about disc piezos around the site in preparation for installing some on my first build.
I bought a pre-wired kit with 2 small-ish disc piezos and had a couple questions about the installation.
1. I know (or at least
Read more…I keep seeing pictures of fingerboards with what I - in all my uneducated glory - can only describe as random positions. Like, they seem to start off fairly regular, then there's a huge gap, the 2 really close together...
Can anyone explain the purpo
Read more…I know there's an element of 'no rules' when building these things, but being realistic, what would be the longest neck you could feasibly have on a CBG?
And while I'm at it, what sort of length do you think is optimal? I read somewhere that 3ft shou
Read more…I'm looking for a specific part, and I don't know its name.
So you've got your sound hole, and then you've got a metal ring that goes round the edges...what is that metal bit?
I know on a small hole its a grommet, but when I searched for say a 1-2 in
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