A picture of the half-complete CBG. No varnish yet, and some parts are missing, but I could try its sound with some trial strings. And, the main problem for me is the following: shall I cut frets on the neck, or not. If I don't, the face and the sound may be more "archaic", but the CBG-s are mostly fretted, as I noticed.
Can anyone tell me some methods or materials what I can use as fret, if I decide I'll make frets. Of course I have normal, factory made fret-wire (sorry, I don't know its official name in English, this is the 'T'-shaped wire, which the fret are cut), but I don't think, the people, who picked cigar boxes from the garbage, had enough money to buy this rare and special material. Well, if they reused old guitar necks, they have solved the problem, but please, somebody tell me, if there had been some popular, accessible stuff what was genuine as fret. My friend, a historic instrument maker (lutes, vihuelas, but jazz guitars too) found a method for lutes, where the fret is the same material as the string, and this idea gives a good result: fasten a long gut-wire, or string at the top of the neck, and twist it around the neck until you reach the root. The fret should be aligned to the correct place on the playing part of the neck, watching over the perpendicular angle on it. (At the back of the neck, of course the gut-thread, or wire went bevelled line) This method was common before the time of the metal frets, but my question is if it had been known by the people building CBG-s.
Any idea?
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Can anyone tell me some methods or materials what I can use as fret, if I decide I'll make frets. Of course I have normal, factory made fret-wire (sorry, I don't know its official name in English, this is the 'T'-shaped wire, which the fret are cut), but I don't think, the people, who picked cigar boxes from the garbage, had enough money to buy this rare and special material. Well, if they reused old guitar necks, they have solved the problem, but please, somebody tell me, if there had been some popular, accessible stuff what was genuine as fret. My friend, a historic instrument maker (lutes, vihuelas, but jazz guitars too) found a method for lutes, where the fret is the same material as the string, and this idea gives a good result: fasten a long gut-wire, or string at the top of the neck, and twist it around the neck until you reach the root. The fret should be aligned to the correct place on the playing part of the neck, watching over the perpendicular angle on it. (At the back of the neck, of course the gut-thread, or wire went bevelled line) This method was common before the time of the metal frets, but my question is if it had been known by the people building CBG-s.
Any idea?
Thanx:-)