We are planning a meeting to talk about starting a Club for building and playing CBGs. Our initial focus will be on slide 3 or 4 string guitars making some Blues music. We will meet at:
Southern Piedmont Woodturners shop, Clearwater Artist Studios,
Read more…I've been using the Acoustic Guitar String Size Calculator at wahiduddin.net to calculate string sizes for various scale lengths and tensions. You enter your scale, tension, tuning and octave and it will calculate the theoretical string size. You w
Read more…Has anyone wax potted a Teisco Del Ray pickup?
I have wax potted a Mini Humbucker with good results. I didn't have to take the cover off. The air bubbled out for 10 or 15 minutes. After potting, I could not force coil sourced, micro-phonic feedbac
Read more…Magnetic pickups, both single-wound and humbucker, are becoming a more and more popular addition to a CBG build. Both are now inexpensive and offer several advantages in terms of tone and absence of unwanted box noise.
Installation is relatively easy
Read more…I wanted to run the Roland Cube 10GX amplifier by a battery for my cigar box guitar.
As with most Roland stuff, this amp has some great tones, will get very loud and costs $129. The Roland Cube 10GX is normally powered by a 5.7 volt DC/120 volt [USA]
Read more…It looks like most electric guitars and some acoustic guitars have a 10" to 12" radius in the fret-board and strings. Why are the strings arranged to have a radius? What am I missing here, something about strumming or picking?
I know a violin has a
Read more…I built a 3-string CBG a few weeks ago and the paper covering it is beginning to show wear where it contacts my leg. The build came out nice and the tone sounds awesome so I would like to keep it looking nice.
I thought of putting clear packing tape
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