Hi Cigarnationers...

Joined just today, been thinking about building my own license plate cigar box guitar for some time. Have decided on a 3 string, interested in other suggestions particularly around the pickup to use.

I'm a steel string acoustic singer / songwriter. 

cheers

Tony

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Thanks, just the sort of ideas I was hoping for with my intro post.  The fretboard / nick on the cbg in the MGB guitar video was up a fair bit higher than the box, allowing room to spare.  I need to look at my license plate to figure out if the pickup is going to bother me as to positioning.  It's an old number plate of mine I took with me from Kansas nearly 40 years ago when I moved down under.

Welcome from Mississippi.

Thanks.  any pictures or blogs of your builds?

Back on subject, there are also plenty of sellers of 3pole single coil and humbucker mag pickups, I can send you some links, but not sure of shipping cost, something to check out

Sure, please send through the links.  I'm leaning towards a six pole pickup, also have liked some of the slimline ones for cbg guitar.  Glad I've not started building yet as the neck height may change depending on the pickup.

links sent in private message, have plenty of parts source, I mostly use eBay

neck height shouldn't matter unless your mounting your pickup in the neck, I make my necks using a 2-3 degree back angle, and my necks meet flush or slightly above my boxes with my fretboard(1/4") on top of that, so I'm 1/4-5/16" above the box, plenty of room for adjusting the pickup and the back angle using a zero fret makes for some serious low action.

Thanks! 

The Essential Pages at the top right of the page has some good info for building guitars. It's best to have all your parts together before starting to build your guitar, that way you can see how things are going to fit and what your parameters are going to be.

If you click on a members name, it will take you to their home page were pics of their projects/guitars/amps are on display.

It's good to get ideas from many sources to help plan your builds.

C.B.Gitty has a lot of pickups available for great prices along with video samples for some of the pickups. The 3 pole and 4 pole pickups are great in single or double coil/humbucker versions. The rod type piezo's are great. The PBass pickups do well for CBG's. Lipstick Tube pickups and the rail pole type pickups work great too.

Other sources out there for pickups as well. I like to listen to several sound samples/videos with clean and distorted sound to get an idea of how they will perform. You also have to consider how a pickup will sound and perform in a hollow box instead of a solid body guitar or semi-hollow body guitar. You may need to put shielding foil inside the box to stop RF noise and use shielded wiring too. You may also encounter feedback problems, but we can help you with all of that. 

Thanks.  Yeah, lots of reading for me to still do. 

Another question, I've been leaning heavily towards making my 1st 3 string cbg a fretted one.  I play a fretted guitar and don't really play by ear as much as I'd like to so leaning to a fretted cbg as that's what I'm quite used to. 

Comments?

On fretless gits, I like to make "fret lines" so I can get right to that point. Some learn were to play without visual aids and some can't do without.

All my gits are fretted and I've learned to use a slide without the "click-clack" sounds of hitting the frets. It takes time to get there, but I'm more of a fretted player anyway.

Thanks.  A friend that learned the double bass originally put dots on the "fret" board (what doe they call it on instruments that aren't fretted?) and once she got more experienced didn't need it.  I've been doing the same on my piano keys.

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