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Vintage Quintero/Buckeye Brand CBU

Posted by Richard White on November 18, 2013 at 10:13pm
My 5th build. The neck I used, & the neck from the last CBU I built, came from an Ebay purchase I made a couple months ago. Both included a pre-inserted dowel in the heel, ready to slap a cigar box on. 2 for $20 bucks. Sounded like a hell of a deal to me. The last one I made played great & sounded even better. Very low action with a banjoey twang to it. This one...not so much. The wooden nut has very thin grooves for the strings. The thick C string doesn't fit well & buzzes like a SOB, rendering it pretty much unplayable. Plus it's an old neck, so I'm a little weary of making any fixes to it. But I think it looks cool! It definitely has that depression era feel to it. The headstock reads "Buckeye Brand". I googled the company, but couldn't find any info. If anyone knows the origins of this neck, please share. Sorry for the long winded description :)
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  • Richard White November 20, 2013 at 9:39am
    Hi Unc,
    Thanks for the reply. Yeah, if anything she'll just be a conversation piece. Regarding the C string, no I haven't tried to widen the slot. The nut is wooden, which I don't have any experience working with. So far I've only set up & filed plastic & bone. I'm afraid if I try to file it wider, I could snap a piece off of it. Who knows, maybe one day I'll muster up the courage to take it on. Either way thanks for the kind words.
  • Uncle John November 19, 2013 at 8:46pm

    Well, it does look cool.  Glad the other one is a player for you.   Almost all of us make some that are wall hangers.   I set mine aside and sometimes when I come back to them, can fix them.   Some if I can not fix, I part out,   This one looks too good to part out.    Good, honest description.  

    I can not see the problem.   Did you widen the slots for the C string?

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