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Bone nuts and bridges

Started this discussion. Last reply by Jerryrig240 Jan 7, 2010. 3 Replies

Cheap and easy to mold into anything you want

 

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Bone nuts and bridges

Posted on January 5, 2010 at 12:31pm 9 Comments

any one else tried making nuts and bridges out of beef bone ? I have found that it works great! it is way more resilient than wood or plastic for this application and cheap too if you get a shin bone at the super market you can get a ton of nuts out of it , just my thought s figured I would share

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At 10:34am on December 27, 2009, THENUGE said…
I built the arturo fuente guitar for a lefty friend of mine..too bad cause i really wanted to play it!
At 7:05am on December 27, 2009, THENUGE said…
cool..another new englander!
At 10:11am on December 13, 2009, Dan Tomkinson said…
Well thank you much -- Dan
At 7:29pm on October 18, 2009, Tres Seaver said…
Welcome aboard, Dan! You will find lots of helpful folks and information here on all things CBG (CBB, CBU, etc.) Feel free to poke around, ask questions, and post your stuff (photos, recordings, videos, etc.).

Most of all, have fun!

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