I'm gonna use a Tele-style bridge and a Duncan '59 single-space humbucker on the CBG that I'm about to assemble. As a result of the bridge, I'm going to make it a string-through... easy enough, I'll just add a block on the inside of the box to reinforce it. This should work, right?
Since I'm doing a string-through, I'm wondering if I should still bring the neck all the way through, or just glue and bolt it where it meets the box at the bottom.
Also, the box has curved outer edges, and I can see that being problematic when notching the neck to fit. Does anyone have any advice?
Here's a link to an ebay listing of the same box that I'm going to use
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It is a stronger build if you make the neck all the way through, also consider that the with the neck through you can have something to screw the bridge to. With a through neck sort of like building a semihollow, if not it would like building a electric guitar out of a acoustic. Both doable, but the through neck is easier for me anyways.
Cheers Ron.
Hey thanks for the reply... I believe I wasn't clear about my question
I meant, since I'm doing a string-through-body design, do I need to have the neck go into the body and come out the other end? Or can I just have it terminate inside the box?
Scott,
Now, will your strings also be coming through the soundboard on top (or bottom) of the box?
You can have the neck terminate inside the box. I do mine this way, even though they are not string-throughs, but trapeze tailpieces. Or you can have the neck come through the end of the box - it isn't necessarily stronger this way; in fact from a structural standpoint, neck-through is slightly less structurally sound (but these are CBGs, so no one really cares that much), but it gives you the rather convenient option of doing strings through the neck at the tail end, which makes string changes easier than if they are strung through the neck and the top (or bottom) of the box as your soundboard. If they are done the latter way, you'll have to open the box up every time you need or want to change strings. Mungo Ron is right, it's just like building a semi-hollow guitar; take a look at Les Paul's Log, and you'll see a plank with two halves of an Epiphone acoutsic attached to the sides of the plank.
Ok Oily, you've answered my structural integrity question. Now here's the thing: I have a tele bridge (pictured) and a pickup to put in it. I'm making a 4-string, so I'll just remove the 2 outer saddles. Thing is, the end of the bridge has a lip where the saddles connect to the bridge assembly, which makes it difficult to have the strings come through the end of the neck, over the lip of the bridge. This is why I want to do a string-through.
Since I'm using a traditional guitar pickup, I'll have to cut a notch in the neck to allow the pickup to go down to a usable depth. My plan is to add a block of wood to the back of the neck, inside the box, to (a) reinforce the neck where I had to notch it and (b) provide a continuous piece of wood for the strings to go through up to the bridge. Then I can just drill holes through the back of the box all the way up through the extra block, the neck, and the soundhole beneath the bridge. That way I won't have to open the box to change the strings.
I get that this adds a few extra steps to the process, but I LOVE the idea of using this bridge and the single-spaced humbucker that I have lying around.
Any thoughts or warnings regarding my plan?
Yeah this is interesting. I'm not quite sure which way I'll go... I've ordered a pre-made neck because I wanted one that felt more like a traditional guitar neck than I had confidence in my ability to create. The neck I'm getting is made for CBG's, and I'm not sure how I would accomplish the "bolt-on neck instead, just like a Strat neck" suggestion that you gave me. To what would I be bolting the neck?
No, no, I believe I got it... a friend of mine worked it out for me. Thanks for the advice!
Scott,
Just in case, here's one way (not the one I suggested; this is for a tin box build):
And a similar way, that should work if you set one bolt atop the other through the heel:
http://www.cigarboxnation.com/forum/topics/bolting-on-a-neck-red-al...
Here are variations on the way I was thinking of:
http://www.cigarboxnation.com/forum/topics/need-help-in-understandi...
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