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AGP #539 – “ADG”

3 String Fretted Cigar Box Guitar

Scale : 628.65mm  / 24¾ inches

Strings : .042NW / .032NW / .024NW /

Tuned:  A D G and G D g

I’m sure many other Cigar Box Guitar Utube followers of Tabs & Lessons, would be aware of an English Gent who goes under the name of Coda Tuition, I recently took an interest in a series of posts he done about using a pack of, DAddario Jazz Light Gauge Nickel Wound Strings, to obtain 4 different Standard Tunings from the one pack, and a EAD/EBe Tuned CBG from a pack of DAddario Regular Light Gauge Nickel Wound Strings, I didn’t use the actual DAddario Strings mentioned, but instead used the same Gauges from my plentiful supply C.B.Gitty Strings.

Instead of using one CBG and changing the Strings for each Tuning, I used 5 small cheap Cigar Boxes, that have been laying around in storage for a number of years.

All 5 Builds have a Single Coil Strat Type Ceramic Pickup of around 4k wired through Vol & Tone to the Output Jack.

3 of the builds have Poplar Necks and 2 have Radiata Pine Necks, all Fretboards are Merbau, all finished with a couple of coats of brushed on Garnett Shellac.

The first 4 builds are the same scale as Coda Tuition’s CBG, 24¾”, #541 is a 24” scale, owing to a bit of a Whoopsie, used the wrong side of my 24”/24¾” Scale Stick.

Have used the pick of the Bunch #539 as the main Pics, because it sounds the best to me, while the 2 heavier strung builds sound okay, the 2 lighter strung builds leave a lot to be desired.

Sorry about the long winded details, but if you consider it covers 5 Builds, I’m hoping people will understand. :-)