CBN brothers and sisters,
some of you may know i'm down to just my index finger on my right hand. really stinks cause i can't even pick my nose with my left hand, so i'm learning to be left handed. don't want to quit building though. slowly figu
Read more…just got home from hospital stay. i now only have my index finger on my right hand.----no not a shop accident, but complications from my diabetes. after i heal, i'll figure out how to continue building cbg's. i'm right handed, so i'll have to lear
Read more…my first attempt at a lap steel----parts from 4 guitars and leftovers from a piano bench single coil pup bone nut, short trapeze tailpiece and an old desk drawer pull for the bridge
check these guys out on you tube.
great homemade gutars and great blues. said they were teens. blues in good hands.
also looks like my next build will be
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Read more…my daugghter is a fantastic artist---but try and get your kids to do something for you.
i'm looking for someone to draw a cbg playing catfish for my mudcat music and mojo cbgs i'm building. also want to put it on some shirts, hats, whatever. a
Read more…traded a bigsby b5 vibrato polished aluminum for this kustom 100 tube amp. 2 12" speakers nice tuck an roll upholstery and both dust covers. looks new. how did i do?works great
are pickups for a guitar and bass the same except for the #poles? anyone here wind bass pickups?
Read more…i have a friend down under wanting a cbg for a teenage player. too costly for me to ship one from usa. anyone from ausralia want to "hook" another fish? if you are interested in gettibng him a guitar i'll pass your contact info on to her.
thanks
Read more…have a couple 6 stringers planned to donate to wounded warriors. looking for 2 boe at l 12" long to match the scale length of the necks i already have. what boe does anyone know of are in that range. the biget i have is 10.5" and it's to short i d
Read more…i will never do this again. use a box a customer gave me to build a cbg. it was special to him a ammer fell off my pegboard while i was gone 5 days and landed on the lid and cracked it. now i need to find the same box and rebuild. i've alrea
Read more…got an amp kitm from ben. only six wires to wire up for my use. didn't use led or headphone jack options. got it wired up and put in box, sounds great. a tip for the other leagally blind builders. plan on 45 minutes to solder everything up. you
Read more…anyone have one of these they are willing to part with. romeo y julietto reserve madura.(i hope so). i was doing something i'll never do again--building a commisioned CBG with a customer supplied box--you guessed it--oops. need new box
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found this link and printed one ou---it fits a CGB neck perfectly.
here is design for headstockhttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Guitar_headstock_outlines
now i'll print them all outto make a hardboard templete to safely do headstocks on
Read more…where does everyone get their 1/4" material for fret boards. my locals only carry oak and poplar and now since i've grown up, i'd like some different woods to use. don't have access to a planer, and as most idiots do i sold mine 2 yrs ago thinking
Read more…well i broke down and bought a new fener style neck with tuners for 30.00 shipped. figured the tuners would be worth that alone. stared at it every dayin my shop, then found the perfect box. decided what the heck buid a 6 stringer. after carefull
Read more…how many of us build guitars but can't play them darn things? is it just me or are there others out there? i know if i try to learn it will be harder now since my hall of shame moment last week, (shorter finger--don't ask), but life goes on and i'm
Read more…guitar fuel quit carrying their prewired cigar box amp kits. i'm leagally blind and can't see well enough to solder my own. is there another cnompany or individual who does this? i'm getting ready for shows and probably could use at leat 6 a mon
Read more…kids workshop today. 15 kids built 2 and 3 string cbg's. thanks to all the nation members who danated materials. dang school would not let me take kids pics. hopefully the parents will forward me pics to post here. also got some local radio inte
Read more…being an electronic dummy---what exactly will a preamp do for my cbg with a piezo or pup or both. please help make me an electronics guru
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