Wondering where UK builders get their wood for CBG necks? All B&Q seem to have is cheap pine and other wood merchants aren't much better. I could trek out to my nearest sawmill and get some proper hardwood but it's a bit of a distance and I can't h
Read more…I have a 6-pole pickup that I bought from ebay and am intending on using on my first 3-string CBG project.
To go with my electric ukulele project I would also like to make a matching headphone amp that would plug into the output jack a bit like the vox headphone amps . The pickup is a strip type under-saddle piezo and I would like the headphone amp to ha
Read more…Right, so I have a single coil pickup, 2 250k log pots, a .22 capacitor and a jack. I think I need to wire them up along the lines of this. Problem is that I don't really understand the diagram.
For some reason the machine heads I bought seem to have long shafts on them so they stick up above the headstock by about 15mm or so to the eye where the strings are threaded through.
Was just getting all ready to string my 3-string CBG up tonight only to find that the middle string going to the upper-most machine head is too short! The other two to the nearer machine heads are fine, just.
My Uncle-in-law kindly gave me some oak and elm to use for CBG necks, and cut it to size. Annoyingly I told him slightly the wrong dimensions, I wanted 45mm x 20mm but told him 40mm x 25mm. Will these dimensions work ok for a 3-stringer or will the
Read more…I thinking I might use a real pickup for my first three string CBG build, anyone who makes them in the UK fancy selling me one?
