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Kastro Freeman replied to Kastro Freeman's discussion My first attempt..

"ill have to wait a few days before i can do any work on the guitar, for the moment im doin work on a stompbox :)"

Dec 14, 2011

Dan Sleep replied to Kastro Freeman's discussion My first attempt..

"Thanks for chiming in. We had a short Skype call last night about this, and he has some stuff he is going to try. He is using all hand tools so he has to get creative, but I am sure he will work something out. "

Dec 12, 2011

Ron "Oily" Sprague replied to Kastro Freeman's discussion My first attempt..

"Kas, Dan will be able to explain it to you, but here's one link as a basis for…"

Dec 12, 2011

wes carl commented on Kastro Freeman's photo

First CBG

"like it *****"

Dec 12, 2011

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Dec 11, 2011

Kastro Freeman replied to Kastro Freeman's discussion My first attempt..

"thanks for the help Dan, ill put updates as i do some work on her :)"

Dec 11, 2011

Dan Sleep replied to Kastro Freeman's discussion My first attempt..

"OK, I will be on Skype for a bit tonight, and mostly in the evening East Coast USA time. "

Dec 11, 2011

Kastro Freeman replied to Kastro Freeman's discussion My first attempt..

"the string tree, its a little bar thats screwed into place above the nut? do people make them for their guitars or can you buy them somewhere? i was looking for them on C.B.Gitty but couldnt see them anywhere. "

Dec 11, 2011

Dan Sleep replied to Kastro Freeman's discussion My first attempt..

"If you have Skype, I can probably explain it better to you over a voice chat."

Dec 11, 2011

Dan Sleep replied to Kastro Freeman's discussion My first attempt..

"Well, you don't necessarily have to add a fretboard to the neck. You could just lower the height of the strings by lowering the nut. If you do that, you might have to add what is known as a string tree to hold the strings down against the nut…"

Dec 11, 2011

Kastro Freeman posted a discussion

My first attempt..

having done loads of research i started to gather materials, bought a few bits from c.b.gitty and then set about doing what we all have done, build my first cigar box guitar.i did it over a few months, little bits when i had time between other projects, a job and my daughter.i dont know how i missed it, but when i strung the guitar the strings are too high from the neck, so i set to work to find out what ive done wrong, i had completely overlooked the fretboard because i didnt want to fret the…See More

Dec 11, 2011

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