AGP #131 “Rocky Mahog”(3 String Baritone CBG)Scale: 736.6mm / 29 inchesStrings: .0.46NW / .036NW / .026NWTuning: DADBuilt this one for the purpose of playing Nigel McTrustry's great online lesson for his version of "Paris Texas".The Tasmanian Oak neck with Meranti fret board joins the box at the 24th fret, the box is a Rocky Patel 9"x8"x2" cedar one, which was originally coated in a black stippled cork type finish, which I stripped and sanded off and then coated with Mahogany stain, the bridge plate I made from polished aluminium.It does compliment Nigel's easy to understand and learn lesson, particularly through my Micro-Cube amp.
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Thanks for all that, AGP. My story on six strings is similar. I started around age 50 and struggled to reach mediocrity. Some might say I never reached it. I still play a little at it and I think the CBG thing somehow made me play six string better.
My new thing is playing six strings in open tunings and the CBG playing absolutely is a boost here. After a lot of GDG or DAD type playing, I found out open E six string was very similar. A revelation. But I don't sing well in E.
Open G fits my voice, but the big string tuned to D seemed in way. I restrung my six string as a 5 string using the 5 smaller strings BUT starting shifting them all toward the bass side - so the 'empty' spot is on the treble side. I think that for myself, that I am on to something good.
Thanks UJ & James, the make a buck world ended for me with retirement some 11yrs ago due to a few medical problems, as for excelling in the some kind of "Designer Job", I wouldn't know, prior to retirement (apart from a few years in the Navy around the time Vietnam was happening) I made a buck as a humble bricklayer, (very thirsty work), I tried to take up 6 string guitar at the age of about 42, but couldn't seem to get my fingers around the chords thing, and after reading an article of someone reviewing a guitarist who's name escapes me, the reviewer likened his playing to that of "a ham fisted bricklayer", which is the category my hands fitted perfectly, so the guitar went in the wardrobe for about 20 yrs, until 2 years ago when I (some-what-belatedly) discovered the world of CBG's and "Hallelujah" I found an instrument I could play (all-be-it a bit crudely) and as they say, 'The Rest Is History'.
AGP, you got this one soooo right. I don't know what you do in the make a buck world, but it looks to me like you would have excelled in some kind of designer job.
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Thanks for all that, AGP. My story on six strings is similar. I started around age 50 and struggled to reach mediocrity. Some might say I never reached it. I still play a little at it and I think the CBG thing somehow made me play six string better.
My new thing is playing six strings in open tunings and the CBG playing absolutely is a boost here. After a lot of GDG or DAD type playing, I found out open E six string was very similar. A revelation. But I don't sing well in E.
Open G fits my voice, but the big string tuned to D seemed in way. I restrung my six string as a 5 string using the 5 smaller strings BUT starting shifting them all toward the bass side - so the 'empty' spot is on the treble side. I think that for myself, that I am on to something good.
Thanks UJ & James, the make a buck world ended for me with retirement some 11yrs ago due to a few medical problems, as for excelling in the some kind of "Designer Job", I wouldn't know, prior to retirement (apart from a few years in the Navy around the time Vietnam was happening) I made a buck as a humble bricklayer, (very thirsty work), I tried to take up 6 string guitar at the age of about 42, but couldn't seem to get my fingers around the chords thing, and after reading an article of someone reviewing a guitarist who's name escapes me, the reviewer likened his playing to that of "a ham fisted bricklayer", which is the category my hands fitted perfectly, so the guitar went in the wardrobe for about 20 yrs, until 2 years ago when I (some-what-belatedly) discovered the world of CBG's and "Hallelujah" I found an instrument I could play (all-be-it a bit crudely) and as they say, 'The Rest Is History'.
AGP, you got this one soooo right. I don't know what you do in the make a buck world, but it looks to me like you would have excelled in some kind of designer job.