Building a Cigar Box Guitar 101

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Comment by Mr.C 8 hours ago

Your going to get 50 difrint ancers on that one look at your fave rit gutar try to match it I like med med but its all prefrance

Comment by Tony Brown 8 hours ago

Which is the best gauge fret wire ???

Comment by Mr.C 11 hours ago

I'm going to do a first build vid for all the new guys ill split it up step by step where to buy parts what works well how to plan and lay out ect ect be my summer project

Comment by Richard Gibson 11 hours ago

Hello everyone. I am brand new to the CBG. One of my friends got me started on building and playing. Look forward to getting advice and tips from yawl.

Comment by Michael Recchione yesterday

I usually do one of the things that, somewhere in that thread, it says not to do, i.e. I use an A440 tuning fork, held against various places on the top, and see where it sounds loudest.  I try to design the rest of the instrument around that, with some minor adjustments as I go along.  This really doesn't tell you all that much, since you're doing it before you've attached a neck, thinned the top, etc. For me, it's more a matter of helping me decide what sort of instrument that particular box will be best suited for...

Why before the neck?  Because, if you've already decided on a scale length for the instrument you're building, deciding on bridge placement is going to determine the length of the neck, so you need to kind of decide before you build a neck.  (Or, if you do the neck and fretboard first, you don't have any choice as far as bridge placement is concerned, so it's moot ...)

If you're going to be playing the instrument mostly plugged in, does any of this matter?  I go for the best acoustic sound I can get, so it matters to me.  But, if you're building a fretless, purely electric instrument, then none of this really matters, as long as your break angles are high enough to avoid buzzing...

The other consideration is the break angle over the bridge (if it's a movable bridge).  Of course, the height of the bridge will also affect this, which will, in turn, affect the angle of the neck and height of the fretboard ...  and people thought CBGs were simple! :)

Comment by Habanera Hal yesterday

John, shipping from Japan is no problem.  Even after the tsunami, I recieved my order from Jockomo in a timely fashion.  Regular orders usually only take a week to 10 days.  Great company to do business with.

I just installed these last night:

Comment by MBliss yesterday

Oh boy........

Allright lets reserrect it. Are ya'll ready?

Michael do you have any idea what you have gone and done?

Comment by Michael Recchione yesterday

Here's an interesting discussion on bridge placement from "super-advanced CBG building".

http://www.cigarboxnation.com/group/superclass/forum/topics/testing...

Comment by John Rivers yesterday

I didn't mean local I meant domestic....jockomo and all the others ship from Japan or China...doesn't anyone sell them in the US

Comment by John Rivers on Friday

Thanks Dan ...good info....do you know anyone that sells the fret markers with a good selection that is local.....jockomo etc take a long time to get.

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