It has been years since I've built a guitar. Trying to turn it into a business fucked it up for me. I'm starting to get a hankering to build again, but I have QUANTITIES of parts that I am never going to end up using. I've been scouring the house to
Read more…So i had this cigar box guitar that had a slightly warped neck so i decided to turn it into a lap steel. I also decided to add a hand wound magnetic pickup (as well as the piezo) Someone suggested a stereo jack and cord so that each pickup could be
Read more…I sold a Ukulele around Christmas and recently got the following message.
I love it, it sounds great. My only problem is that it doesn't seem to be able to tune to a standard ukulele... the highest I can get is a half step down. I wouldn't mind muc
Read more…So I'm working on hacking this radio I picked up at the thrift store. This is my first time trying this. I think I won't have any trouble hacking the input, but the first thing I have to do is fix the volume pot because it's kind of crapping out.
Read more…Is anybody here from the Austin, San Antonio, or Rockport/Fulton area? My family is going to be spending about 3 weeks in those places at the end of December. We'll mostly be in Fulton, which is where her parents snowbird for the winter, but we'll be
Read more…I was going to do another colaborative effort on a calendar again this year, but I didn't have much interest when i first started, so I just did a calendar with my cigar box guitars for friends and family and whatnot. I have a few extras, so I'm sell
Read more…CIGAR BOX GUITAR CALENDARS ARE HERE! I organized putting together a CBG calendar for the folks on the CBG Builders Yahoo group. I ordered few extras in case other people want some. Here are examples of a couple months.
I asked this on the yahoo group already, but I thought this would be a good question to have archived on the forum. Where do you put a piezo pickup on a drain cover resonator guitar? I usually put the piezo under the bridge with a piece of foam rubb
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