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- At 9:08am on January 26, 2012,
legnahkra said…
- simple uke, glue together 2 pieces of 1" x 1/2"... the smaller one goes from the inside edge of the box up to about the 12th fret of the neck... with a 45• angle at the end. this will add extra support to the neck... will also prevent the "headstock is heavier than the body therefor the guitar falls to the side" effect..!
- At 9:37am on December 21, 2011,
Roadkill a.k.a. John Maw said… Hi. Saw your question about fret spacing and not sure that you got an answer. It's diatonic fretting as used on mountain dulcimers and similar instruments. It gives you the notes of one scale (major or minor) without the other frets that would be used on chromatic fretted instruments like guitars. Hope that helps and makes sense.
- At 10:11pm on April 13, 2011,
Kenneth "MC" Carl said… - Hey it's a good addiction, isn't it!?!?!?!?
I know the yard work all to well. Then again as soon I'm done with that, I'm either down in the basement building and/or destroying/ tweaking something. Or rescuing my older sister from her two little ones, all before night class!
- At 2:09pm on April 13, 2011, Kenneth "MC" Carl said…
- Ya caught me, I can't denie it I do. But now I'm hooked on diddly bows and cbgs.I got done with my first one over the weekend and did some bridge modifing on it today.
- At 4:39pm on April 12, 2011, Kenneth "MC" Carl said…
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- At 10:58am on April 4, 2011,
- anytime uke..!
- At 4:31pm on December 28, 2010,
Bruce C, Scroggin said… - i'LL SEE IF'N I CAINT GET MY WORMAN TO TAKES ONE WITH HER KNEW CAMERA
- At 8:35am on December 23, 2010,
Jeffery A, Krueger said… - Hello, the best of the holidays to you as well, A Meteorite Pick-up is one that I took a real slab cut from a real meteorite , and made a one of a kind winding,with the wire directly around the(meteorite) slab for that part of the Pick-up : )
- At 7:03am on December 15, 2010,
SmokeBoxBlues said… Hi Sam!
The first string is thin one. Right?
I use normal gauges as 0.10 guitar string set. You can use whatever gauge you want, but be carefull! 90% of the CBG builders don't use trussrods in their guitar necks, and if the gauge is too heavy it can bend your neck as a banana.
And you can search here in the Nation, forums talking about How To Play Play CBG, and things like that...
You can use any tuning, normaly people prefer open tunings as open G or Open D.
Cheers,
Fernando.
- At 10:14am on December 14, 2010, SmokeBoxBlues said…
Hi Sam!
I use to tune my cbg's with open g tuning, B-G-D-G, down to up. But in my videos I'm using a tuning one note or half a note below, something like A-F-C-F.
Second, third, fourth and fifth strings.
Open G -------- Open F
1 string - D --------------- C
2 string - B --------------- A
3 string - G --------------- F
4 string - D --------------- C
5 string - G --------------- F
6 string - D --------------- C
Cheers,
Fernando
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