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TINQUI8 commented on Phillip Robert's photo
Festival Français de CBG...°<[:-) [---]==={...
"so, MR robert ,, nice to announce this to all the people here,, but no one in the community in france has heard about that,,, so it would be better first to talk about it to the french people , OK…"
Anders commented on Anders's photo
pickup modification
"Hi John
It is in fact my little grey dulcimer, now i`v been converted to steel strings i thought it could do with some Zing !
going to add a 1+fret as we talked about earlier + i am dabbling in a little bit of slide ! my only concern is…"
Steven Drenning Jr. commented on Shane's group Building a Cigar Box Guitar 101"Saw your post Luna, Thank you ^.^It took 45 minutes to shape the neck w/60 grit belt sander paper, and another 25-30 cleaning it up with higher grits(from 100-330)."
"String height with a fretted neck will need to be much lower and more precise than a fretless, most builders have the strings about a penny coin's thickness at the nut and just clear (3mm) of the pickup when fretted, test the sound of each…"
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Setting the string height.
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Wired and test today, couple questions...
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Townes Van Zandt CBG Tribute Album - Your Submissions needed
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