Super Advanced Cigar Box Guitar Building

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Comment by smilingdog1 on February 25, 2013 at 3:29pm

Out of a thousand posted diagrams/schematics on how to do, I'd say five are descent and one superb in any category. Everybody has a different method of receiving information. I've heard and seen many great ideas, and understood very few in detail. I'm working on some how to videos that will be ready and up by summer. I'll post them with the invite to criticize and hopefully promote revised methods of sharing shop techniques I've picked up. Anyway it would be nice to have a how to video library on site that you type in your search and pull up what you're looking for. As it is, you type in search and get dozens of unrelated topics. Any feedback to this?

Comment by Charlotte Henry on January 9, 2013 at 1:01am

Thought this may be of interest to some of you. http://www.csgnetwork.com/righttricalc.html

I am using a neck block with a bolt on neck and am routing the slot for the neck with the 1 degree angle built in and this showed me that I could put a 1 degree pitch in the neck on an 11 inch box by lifting the tail end with a .19 inch shim when on the router table. 

Comment by ChickenboneJohn on August 13, 2012 at 1:51am

If you want resonator cone & coverplate sets, I've got "Continental" uke sets n stock..contact me for prices & shipping.

Comment by wormil on August 12, 2012 at 11:55pm

I don't know the best place but Old Lowe sells them:

http://www.cigarboxnation.com/profile/OldLowe

Comment by Stevie Vaughn on August 12, 2012 at 6:37pm

Where is the best place to find resonator parts for a CBG?

Comment by ron carlson on July 3, 2012 at 12:29am

Thanks Mr. cajun.  I was thinking about running it in a couple of inches and shimming the gap sounds like a pretty reasonable solution. I think a composite door shim is about 1-1/2" wide and 1/4" would be about right for the wide end. It wouldn't take much to modify one for a nice fit I would think. They cut easy and I believe they may just take a stain also.

I just can't get make it so the whole works is so high off my box that the pickup I'd like to use won't function well without shimming up the heck out of that also.

Comment by bairfoot cajun on July 2, 2012 at 11:47pm

howdy ron carlson,the situation you are describing is how the necks are set-up on archtop guitars---plenty neck angle with the fingerboard ending on top of the body.most i have seen or worked on have a shim under the fingerboard where it attches at the body.you can make the shim and glue it to the underside of the fingerboard.the result you may have with lots of neck angle will probably give you a lot of distance where your bridge will be, so you will probably need a tall bridge.to make the shim you can just measure the gap between the bottom of the fingerboard at its end where it goes over the body--just for example lets say its 1/4 inch gap--and lets say your fingerboard goes over the box just for example 2 inches..then your shim will be 1/4 at the end to 0 inch at the place where the neck joins the body 2 inches from the edge of the fingerboard that is over the body, and it will be however wide your fingerboard is.not a lot of math in this shim type situation.hope this helps you.

Comment by ron carlson on July 2, 2012 at 10:07pm

Hey!

I have a build question for all you old pro's out there.

I've been sorting out plans for my new geetar. I would like to introduce some neck angle but would also like to have my fretboard run over onto the top of my box.  It just dawned on me that this is going to be problematic. Is there really any way to have both without lowering the neck and cutting more into the box to allow for the fretboard/neck angle???

If you didn't do something similar to that, the fretboard would be elevated off the box I would imagine and get worse the further in you brought it.

I'm going to be building a 2 piece neck from 1" x 2" and 1/4" (wood or bar stock aluminum) material for the fretboard.

I hope this isn't going to involve a lot of math. I hate math ;)

Ron

Comment by PhilUSAFRet on February 10, 2012 at 6:22pm

I was planning on using either the 6" aluminum cone on ebay for about $20 or the brass/aluminum ones on Smokehouse Guitars for $25.  No fancy cover plate, but sure looks like they are worth the money.  Anyone use them yet? Can imbed peizo in bridge.....guess he wire goes down through the cone inside the box?

Comment by PapaSimone on January 1, 2012 at 1:51pm

Thanks so much! The Dremel did come with an edge guide. I think I can figure this out with the Dremel and several light passes.

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