Hi everyone was too scared to build 3 string cbg (even though got all the parts) untill I seen justin johnsons vid on making a diddley bow and though hell I can do that! So my first build is guna be a one string electric diddley bow!
Ive a few questions which is best pick up? bridge or not sure name of the other think its a humbucker?
What length?
What strings to use ive standard 3 string set and E string and A string of electric bass guitar! Im a huge classic rock fam ACDC, Metallica, Van Halen etc, so based on that type of music which string?
Using a home built cigarbox with sound holes and a through neck broom handle!
Would appreciate any imput or ideas!
Thanks in advance guys!
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Scruggy, Ron's pretty much covered the diddley bow here so just run with what he said.
sure you can put it on the outside .. if you dont plan on fretting or fingering the neck and just play with a slide . your string will be cloths hanger high tho . unless you top mount a neck too . but it really dont matter with a diddly .
you can also even invert the pickup *above the string ..(bridged over it ) and keep the string lower ..
like this ;
i did this to a guit that was glued shut .
means really high . ;-)
but as i said it dont really matter with a diddly .. if you just plan to slide .
so top mount it , or put it upside down bridged over the string .
bridged over will allow for a low nut and bridge and less strain angle on the stick/neck.
What Ron said...
Truthfully, a Diddley bow can be anything you want with one string. Mine are 25" ish scale length, low E string, and a magnetic pickup as Ron described... most start their lives as a 2x4 or 1x4-1x6 about 30" long...
All you need is a bridge and a nut, for me that's a piece of scrap 1x2 screwed down with a slotted screw for the bridge/Nut.
If you use a magnetic pickup, be sure to ground the string through the bridge or it might hum...
Most of all: If it makes noise, you did it right... don't stress, the only wrong way to make it is one that won't play...
sounds like you are making more of the guitar / strummer type, than the string on a 2x4 thing , so .. here's mine with a bridge position single coil mag , ,32 or .40 gauge string , and a short scale donor neck .
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