Hello Del pictured s a little handy guide i use for getting the correct string slot and hole drilled for stringing up guits. I was watching your handy videos and thought of you immediately.
Hope you can make sense of it from the picture. feel free to check out my builds and videos. Take care!
What is the piece that you first played in your YouTube video titled "EQUALIZERS"?
Also I'm doing my first build and I'm glued to your videos. I'm trying to figure out the cut at the tail end of a 17" cigar box? You go from 3/16" to 3/8", how do you determine that calculation? I'm using a 25.5 scale 17 frets which places the bridge at 9.5" from the front end, should I go with a longer neck?
Thanks for any advice
I really liked your The Versatility of the "3 String Cigar Box Guitar" video. I'm curious about the nylon string gdg guitar example. Looks like it would fit in a airline carry on bag. Not much info out there on using nylon strings with 3-stringers. What scale length and strings were you using? I know how to figure tensions out with steel strings, but I have no clue with nylon. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Hi Del. Just wanted to say I find your videos really inspirational. Just watched your latest YouTube video on your 3 string CBG. You mentioned it's fretted in the E minor scale. Forgive my ignorance please but is that the 3, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11 (for the middle string blue note) & octave? You're inspiring me to try a ruler neck and the same fretting.
Please, please keep up the awesomeness. I'm a fan already!
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Hello Del pictured s a little handy guide i use for getting the correct string slot and hole drilled for stringing up guits. I was watching your handy videos and thought of you immediately.
Hope you can make sense of it from the picture. feel free to check out my builds and videos. Take care!
Also I'm doing my first build and I'm glued to your videos. I'm trying to figure out the cut at the tail end of a 17" cigar box? You go from 3/16" to 3/8", how do you determine that calculation? I'm using a 25.5 scale 17 frets which places the bridge at 9.5" from the front end, should I go with a longer neck?
Thanks for any advice
Please, please keep up the awesomeness. I'm a fan already!
Hey bud thanks for friendin me.Lookin forward to meetin ya.Its gonna be a gas...gettin better by the minute...'
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