I've really been enjoying building and learning to play these crazy 3 stringers, heck I've even sold a few. I started building to hopefully finally be able to play a stringed instrument. While I love the " build with what ya got" motto I wanted to bu
Read more…I am having trouble with a build and hope some one can give me some suggestions. I built a sweet guitar and went all out. Built my own box using figured maple sides and lace wood back, maple neck with rosewood finger board and rosewood binding. wher
Read more…I was talking to the guitar player at our church a couple weeks ago about my fist dogbowl build. He showed a huge interest in it and seemed really excited to see the finished product. While we were talking he mentioned that he would like do get into
Read more…I posted over in the intro section but thought I'd share my first build here also. Thanks to all you old timers for sharing all the information and knowledge that made my build possible.
It is a dog bowl reso. The neck is maple with a walnut fret bo
I found this forum in my endless search for some kind of stringed instrument I can actually play. Three years ago I thought I found that elusive tool in a strum stick. I built one then two and so on until I had built and given away 7 of the eight or
Read more…So for build number 3 I decided to make a LPG fretless slide git. OK no problem. I own a 59 chevy so I picked up a 1959 indiana plate from ebay.Still no problems. I wanted to make a simple metal back plate for it instead of all the trouble of re-sawi
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