Hi Billy Bow, great to have you as a friend. Trev

Lovely stuff Billy Bow :)

Hello

Didn't realise that I had made a dowel guitar..the " half hour diddley bow " that's hanging as a mascot on my hut. I did use an old broom shank.

Have never made wound pups. The thought of all that winding of copper wire puts me off, specially when you can buy a single coil pup for less than a tenner

Excuse my ignorance ...but what is a dowel guitar?

The corners are made from sheet brass bought from a model shop.

Just cut out a square, mark the centre and use a hole saw to cut out a circle.

Cut the square into four (see photo) and cut out small squares from what will be the corner.

Fold the edges over a block of hardwood. I like to solder the corners but you don't have  to.

Annealing (softening) the brass makes it easier to bend - heat it till it's dull red and let it cool slowly.

The corners are held in place with small brass pins( model shop again) 

There are some photo's  showing the Coppertop under construction on my page, let me know if you need more info

Sorry to say the North East seems to be a desert as far as  the CBG is concerned, unless I've just missed posts from local enthusiasts on the Nation.

Happily there are still good venues to see live Blues, The Cluny,  The Tyne Bar etc.(but it's not as good as it was in the olden days when we had the GoGo-- he said sounding like an old fart)

Thanks for the friend invitation.

Yes the coppertop was the 24th CBG I've built and no's 25 and 26 are nearly finished so I'm still a novice compared to some builders who have built hundreds.

There is life in the Cbg desert of darkest Northumberland ! Didn't know you were there

Hi Billy

You say your partner has orderd them already ? - thats strange because i have received no orders are you sure she has not orderd the Elmar made pickups ... just that i noticed you had commented on Elmars Flat pickups ... are you getting conffused ??

Cool mate - if infact you do want to buy some pickups you can contact me through here or spod@talktalk.net as i have been having problems with the Paypal payment Checkout on my website - i'm in the process of trying to get the problem sorted with paypal there looking into the matter !

but yes i can make you some pickups no problem at all :)

juju.

thanks for adding :-)