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A while back I posted Part 1 to this, covering the mortise block, but stuff came up (chores, pandemic, filing for unemployment...). All two of you showed interest, but I'm all about follow-through, so here's Pa

Started by Rough Cut Guitars in Building Secrets, Tips, Advice, Discussion

Making a string height guide for a hard-tail bridge

Hi All! Someone might have already offered this up, but just in case - and since I'm enjoying unemployment anyway... Here's how to make a guide for super-fast and easy string height set-up on a hardtail bridge such as the type from CBGitty.com.

This

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(Almost) All about String Action for Beginners

Hey All, Down with a pinched nerve so figured I'd use this time to put up the next part of the story on CBG set-up. If you're looking to dial in your next build, this covers what's going on with 'action', how to measure your string height, and how to

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Pickup configuration question

Hi All, Happy Easter & happy hunkering down!

I'm almost ready to wire up a build with a Pawn Shop Monorail Single-Coil pup and facing a choice. To keep the Q & A short and simple, I'm only considering these two options and hoping someone can speak fr

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Hardtail Bridge Tips for First-timers aka BEFORE you get to drillin' :-)

Made this on the fly while setting up. Stop me if you've heard this one before, but hey I'm outta work so...

Covers bridge placement and setting intonation - hope it helps.

https://youtu.be/ztKyEctndro

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Making a mortise and tenon neck joint at Rough Cut Guitars – Part 1: The Larch… I mean, the mortise!

Other than the enjoyment of making musical instruments for yourself (and maybe others), the excitement from the first time of MAKING something probably called to most of us who build CBGs.

In the five years I’ve been making these, I’ve gotten invalua

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Neck mortising jig

Neck mortising jig
Just finished building the jig to try my first mortise (and bolt just to be sure) joint. If anyone's interested in following this little adventure, let me know and I'll post the whole step-by-step once the deed is done. Or I explod

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Looking back

Hey all, maybe I'm getting caught up in all these "Decade in Review" specials, but before this one's over I was thinking it might be fun to dig back and share memories, anecdotes, samples, etc of your first-ever build - whatever it was: success or fa

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Dulci-tar stringing: wound or plain 'a'

Hey all! Going down the rabbit hole (a trip I take often) of string weights and hope to bring some of you along with me this time :-) Recently finished a dulci-tar build for a customer who requested 6-1/2 and 13-1/2 frets with 3 strings 'Dad' tuning.

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Replying to comments

Hey guys, I'm only slightly better at woodworking (and that's lucky guesses half the time) as I am at using blog sites. Can you tell me if there's anybway to reply directly to comments or do we just add them to the general comments section? Had a cou

Started by Rough Cut Guitars in Performances, How to Play, Lessons, Concerts

Best piezo mount for floating bridge?

Next build is a diatonic or dulci-cbg with a set back neck and floating archtop-style bridge with a bone saddle insert - see my perso page Rough Cut Tom photos: landmark. Was gonna put a rod piezo under the saddle insert but started thinking that mig

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