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Permalink Reply by gary sheldon on April 19, 2015 at 11:29am

Yes, a correct assumption..The strings need some break angle at the nut (and bridge).  This gives you the working part of the string or scale length.

 

Permalink Reply by Bill Baker on April 19, 2015 at 12:07pm

Henry, if I understand your question correctly, there are two different techniques here.  One: cutting out a section of the neck to create a steeper string angle over the nut and Two: Doing a scarf joint where you cut on the diagonal (15deg or so) then flip that short piece over and glut to the neck. Either way works. Sometimes it is hard to get the scarf cut precise so the two pieces match up with out ugly gaps.  So it is not necessarily the easiest way.

   Oh  and there are no dumb questions on here....

Permalink Reply by Henry S on April 19, 2015 at 12:59pm

I agree there are no dumb questions - but one can feel dumb after paying a nice price for pre-cut neck with a scarf joint and then doing unneeded work and hogging out a 1/4" of head stock because the Gitty book said to ..... hooooooo  boy

Permalink Reply by Henry S on April 25, 2015 at 1:37pm

I did email CB Gitty and Ben did reply and said indeed they may update their little pamphlet that they send out with their kits which is all I could really ask for. I ended up buying a new neck as I had really botched up the original one. Lets just say I've learned a lot and one of those is not to rush things. And yes I got the whole package neck included from Gitty and am very pleased with the quality of the kit and parts. Bottom line is I haven't felt that dumb in a long time   .... but through  the nice folks here I've learned a lot about making a CBG.