I picked up a CBG to piddle about with recently. However, the strings seem to be set too high on it for me. It has a bone nut and a chrome hard-tail bridge on it and I am trying to find out how to lower those strings. I can't seem to find a YouTube v
Read more…I hope to make a Diddly Bow in the near future, but in looking over photos and videos of such, I wasn't too hep on either not having a headstock or simply modifying one that really wasn't all that impressive. That was when I started looking for somet
Read more…Sometimes I find these wood pieces in some of the cigar boxes and I hate to toss anything that may actually have a repurposing use on these guitars. I was wondering a bit, so I turned the wood piece over and began to look at it as a possible bridge p
Read more…I pulled a dumb Stupid Human Trick #1,999 yesterday when mucking with a Fender Frontman amplifier. I had the back off to add in a talk box setup. The wiring was hanging loos and attached to the pressed wood backing plate. I moved the amp to make room
Read more…Someone had mentioned using wsome knives and even a potato peeler that they had found at an Asian Market for shaping the necks on their CBGs. Unfortunately, unlike Arlington which has a huge Asian Market or two, Wichita Falls is much more limited. I
Read more…I tired to find more by using the search here, but I can't seem to find what I am looking for. Can some of you guys please share how to make a simplistic heel for a stock CBG? I mean, I know I can cut something round out and add it to the stock, but
Read more…While at my local Sears store, I noticed the router table and router combo was priced higher than what I had seen it on-line. I asked the sales person to look it up for me and to give me the on-line price. They
were selling it for $119 dollars at the
Read more…I have always heard it as a banjo piece and primarily as New Orleans style music, but I have not seen any YouTube vidoes of anyone playing the tune on a CBG. It was by the Village Stompers and made it to #2 back when it first came out. Anyone got a c
Read more…Well, I am just wondering how people repair the more common mistakes/ For example, if your cutting your box to insert a guitar neck and you cut the hole too deep or too wide. How do you normall correct such? Does anyone ever use a beading around the
Read more…My speaker wires are marked for both positive and negative where they connect to the speaker assembly at the back. I picked up some 1/4" mono jack plugs today to use on a stomp box or two that I have in various stages of completion.
I have not piddle
Read more…I recently had a YouTube video sent to me in which the builder made a statement that confuses me a bit, as I see so many times when builders all seem to say there is no wrong or right way to build a CBG or that there are hundreds of ways to build the
Read more…As said in another post, I received several empty boxes today at a local cigar store. Some were obviously not big enough for a standard cigar box guitar build unless you wanted to somehow glue them together in a manner that may work for that particul
Read more…I have a cigar box (actually two) which has a recessed lid that is not flat as many are. In making the cut out for my neck to be pushed through the box, should I take a cut into both the bottom part of the side of the box and the top as well or just
Read more…I put photos in my album here and some comments for them. First, this is my first attempt at making a CBG and I may have made a mistake in the choice of my box, but I just loved the style and wood used in it and decided I'd either make it work or sim
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