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Permalink Reply by Mortimer Snerd on September 5, 2009 at 2:36am

I can see where Alan got his point of view,,, when the SELLER states this at the end of his sale description, in the sellers own words- Quote" Please do not buy if you have terrible buyers remorse. " un quote.
Alan, as I do, can see a hint that the seller does have some remorse or he would have kept it. Who ever heard of owning one dream guitar? Why would he sell it? The seller does have buyers remorse, he didn't bash smokehouse, he is only feeling guilty for spending to much money on two guitars. Now I myself would find a way to pay for both, I believe the seller is now selling his smokehouse to pay for his dano. I see no reason to "pile on" poor ol Alan here. He only misunderstood the sellers verbage in the sale ad, as some of you have too.

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Permalink Reply by Tres Seaver on September 5, 2009 at 5:37am

Mortimer Snerd said:

I can see where Alan got his point of view,,, when the SELLER states this at the end of his sale description, in the sellers own words- Quote" Please do not buy if you have terrible buyers remorse. " un quote.
Alan, as I do, can see a hint that the seller does have some remorse or he would have kept it. Who ever heard of owning one dream guitar? Why would he sell it? The seller does have buyers remorse, he didn't bash smokehouse, he is only feeling guilty for spending to much money on two guitars. Now I myself would find a way to pay for both, I believe the seller is now selling his smokehouse to pay for his dano. I see no reason to "pile on" poor ol Alan here. He only misunderstood the sellers verbage in the sale ad, as some of you have too.

That is exactly how I read the thread: Alan was excited by the idea of such a cool find, but made wary by the seller's final sentence. I didn't see a slur on Smokehouse at all (and that guitar looks awesome, BTW).

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Permalink Reply by MZ-HANDYMAN on June 30, 2010 at 9:38am

Alan, I know you posted your original message in 09' but I live in San Antonio too and maybe between the 2 of us or if there are any other folks in San Antonio, we could use your ear their experience and my woodworking skills to build you what you want or need... contact me and lets see what we can do. I'm new the the building but have plenty of wood working and other experience that this doesn't seem like a very hard thing to do.... From what i've seen in CBG's

They aren't meant to be be a GIBSON or a FENDER... Just a Kick @$$ box that makes simple fun music! I'd like to make something along the quality of a FENDER from a cigar box but that would defeat the purpose... It's supposed to be a box with a broom stick and a hunk of bailing wire and a lot of talent. I made one from scratch and made one with a real guitar neck and am about to make my first scratch built (6 string) with electrics.

I'm sure by now you already own a CBG but I bet you'd be more satisfied if you built it yourself or had a hand in it's design. I know I did/do.

Hey, I wanted a chopper and built my own

MZ-HANDYMAN

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Permalink Reply by Micah Haley on June 30, 2010 at 10:21am

Build one!

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Permalink Reply by Roger Morin on June 30, 2010 at 11:06am

Alan take a look at Jays site he show a six string cigar box guitar he just finished, Hope this helps. http://mysite.verizon.net/reswu3fu/tinyguitars/

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Permalink Reply by MZ-HANDYMAN on June 30, 2010 at 8:02pm

Bad link

Roger Morin said:

Alan take a look at Jays site he show a six string cigar box guitar he just finished, Hope this helps. http://mysite.verizon.net/reswu3fu/tinyguitars/

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Permalink Reply by Josh Gayou (SmokehouseGuitars) on December 18, 2012 at 2:12pm

LOL, I was just going through some old posts and saw this.  I had no idea this discussion even existed.  I actually remember this guy.  This was a loooooooong time ago before I started carving my own six string necks (I was very young at the time).  If I remember right, this guy's name was Mark (the original buyer of the guitar).  I built the thing specifically for him based on an earlier model that I made, which now belongs to Lukas Nelson.  It is the only guitar I ever made for someone to my knowledge that was then sold soon after.  When I saw that it was up for sale I contacted him and asked what the problem was or if I could do anything to make it right.  Basically, the guy said he loved the instrument but had his heart set on some factory job and needed the money back so he could get it.  What a blast from the past!

Also, a big thank you to all the folks who came rushing to defend me.  Very touching indeed :)

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Permalink Reply by RTZGUITARS on December 19, 2012 at 8:39pm

Avoiding everything that has been said here and addressing the title. You can not build a 6 string like people build a 3 string they must be strong to handle the tension. You really need a truss rod neck and some mass in the box. My 6 strings hold their neck position and are stage ready.

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Permalink Reply by Josh Gayou (SmokehouseGuitars) on December 20, 2012 at 2:00pm

Those are pretty nice.  Maybe I should buy one...

:)

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