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Permalink Reply by MadGomer on August 16, 2019 at 12:28pm

Just finishing up a CB Uke for my oldest daughter.  I bought the strings, feet wire, and grommet from Gitty, the rest is stuff I've scrounged here and there.  Walnut neck, Corian countertop sample for bridge and nut.  Sounds pretty decent unplugged, may still add a piezo though.

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Permalink Reply by MadGomer on August 16, 2019 at 1:06pm

My apologies, photo didn't come through

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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on August 17, 2019 at 10:26am

That really looks nice MadGomer.

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Permalink Reply by Poorness Studios on August 17, 2019 at 9:35am

I just started building a CB Gitty Mountain Tenor kit. I'm gonna add a few of my own touches, but the kit seems pretty well designed.

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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on August 17, 2019 at 10:27am

That kit looks like it's made well.

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Permalink Reply by Poorness Studios on August 18, 2019 at 1:05am

Honestly, it's pretty well thought out. This is my second CB Gitty kit. The first was the Tin Pan Alley. I received this one as a birthday present.

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Permalink Reply by Cause the Blue rat on August 19, 2019 at 8:25pm

Update on my fixes. Decided against a tone pot for the Glider. It really does need one. For now I can control the harshness with a graphic EQ pedal. Opened up Rusty. I used aluminum foil as a cavity shield. Some of this had come loose. In contact with the five way switch. In this configuration this switch doesn't need a ground. This was causing some of the issues. Go back a bit and explain the wiring. The bridge pickup has it's own volume pot. Mid and Neck share. One master tone. I can add bridge to the neck just by turning up it's volume pot. Can do the same in the neck position. In positions two and four I can have all three pickups on. All kinds of great sounds with all kinds of problems. My fault. I didn't use 0 load pots. So what happens is there will always be neck in the bridge position. And when the neck mid volume is off it turns everything off. Weird things are happening in positions two and four. Not sure what. So I'll leave this like it is. Because I'm still getting great sound from positions 1, 3, and 5. Will still need to get the bridge moved.  

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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on August 20, 2019 at 5:14pm

Usual Strat wiring has neck on 1 tone and middle on the other tone while bridge is no tone. That makes the Strat bridge very bright and a bit thin tone wise. Many like it that way, many don't and there's a bagillion wiring mods out there. One of the most common is putting the bridge on it's own volume to turn on with the neck or neck/middle combo and some link both middle/bridge to the second tone pot. Lots of possibilities.

No Load pots are a good option for that extra boost.

Hope you get it all sorted and enjoy.

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Permalink Reply by Fantacone Box Works on August 28, 2019 at 3:53am

Almost finished with my #48

dont understand why the pictures get turned? No way to fix that?

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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on August 29, 2019 at 5:39am

Nice one Fantacone.

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Permalink Reply by Poorness Studios on August 28, 2019 at 6:47am

I finished the CB Gitty Mountain Tenor Kit last week...

...but I just started my first electric washboard build. :-D

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Permalink Reply by BrianQ. on August 28, 2019 at 6:56am

Kool! I just found one o’ my forgotten washboards in my parents rafters recently, been there since 85’ My mom, bless her heart, gave it to me for Xmas one year, still looks new? Looking forward to your progress?

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