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Permalink Reply by Andrew Christopher Deighton on August 4, 2009 at 2:44am

Many Thanks for the quick reply may I say to start. Thats a very nice build you have there in the photo...Its certainly something that i am going to be experimenting with in future builds.
Thank you very much for the advice !
Cheers
Andy

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Permalink Reply by Paul Doug on August 4, 2009 at 2:59am

If you go through the photos, there are several pictures of attachments that don't go through the box. Unfortunately (well it is not unfortunate) there are a lot of pictures to go through. But it is worth the effort. You can re-enforce the inside of the box and have a block to bolt the neck to.

Randy, that is a great looking one. I like that look.

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Permalink Reply by Andrew Christopher Deighton on August 4, 2009 at 3:34am

I'm just lookinmg through now , wow there is ALOT some are almost wrks of art..I am impressed..hope my builds are nearly as good over time.
I will have a look into reinforcememtn ...cheers.

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Permalink Reply by Wichita Sam on August 4, 2009 at 3:42am

Randy, Have you done this with a non-reso design? Do you lose much volume by the contact of the "undercarriage" with the box? Also, I can't tell from the pic, is the undercarriage only as wide as th box, or is it wider? Nice work.... can you post 360 degree pics? the best, Wichita Sam
Randy S. Bretz said:

Howdy Christopher, I have a few that I did where I built a frame that ran under the box.So the neck would attach to the heel, that`s the part of the frame that extends past the front of the box on the bottom.. Also you can extend it out the back of the box on the bottom to use as your tailpiece. You just have to build it up a little to just below the top of the box so you get a nice angle for your strings. Doing it this way you won`t be cutting into the box, except for the soundholes. You can just put screws on the inside bottom of the box to the top of the frame. I`m like you I really don`t like putting the stick through the box either, but I`ve done a few like that.The one pictured above is a under the box frame cgb banjo I did. I used a 6" hand drum for the banjo pot. Worked out really well.

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Permalink Reply by Paul Doug on August 4, 2009 at 5:41am

If you look at Randy's pictures it looks like it is only as wide as the neck. Pretty unique build.

http://www.cigarboxnation.com/photo/cgb-dulcijo-1?context=user

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Permalink Reply by Wichita Sam on August 4, 2009 at 11:05am

Paul,

Thanks for the link... a pic is worth a thousand words....

the best,

Sam


Paul Doug said:

If you look at Randy's pictures it looks like it is only as wide as the neck. Pretty unique build.

http://www.cigarboxnation.com/photo/cgb-dulcijo-1?context=user

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Permalink Reply by ChickenboneJohn on August 4, 2009 at 7:55pm

I make very few neck thru CBGs these days. I put a block in at the heel, or sometimes a thru' stick down the whole box, and screw the neck to that. If you are coming to the UK CGB Fest I'm sure this is the sort of thing that is going to come up in the builders' workshop sessions.

John

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Permalink Reply by Andrew Christopher Deighton on August 4, 2009 at 10:42pm

I certainly will be attending the CBG fest, It looks really good!

ChickenboneJohn said:

I make very few neck thru CBGs these days. I put a block in at the heel, or sometimes a thru' stick down the whole box, and screw the neck to that. If you are coming to the UK CGB Fest I'm sure this is the sort of thing that is going to come up in the builders' workshop sessions.

John

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Permalink Reply by Diydc on August 4, 2009 at 11:27pm

I used to do thrunecks, but have gotten into stopping the neck at the box, and using the underneath of the box as the front of the guitar, thus you can open the box from the back. To do this you need some kind of support for the neck to go through.
I have been using steel plates and weld a bolt thread onto the back, thus extending the neck all the way through the box and leaving some adjusment possibilities there too.....
Next up I will revert to through necks again, as I just found an lod Oak bed as a supply for the wood....

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Permalink Reply by Andrew Christopher Deighton on August 5, 2009 at 12:11am

Thanks for the advice...See what I can do with my next build...cheers

Diydc said:

I used to do thrunecks, but have gotten into stopping the neck at the box, and using the underneath of the box as the front of the guitar, thus you can open the box from the back. To do this you need some kind of support for the neck to go through.
I have been using steel plates and weld a bolt thread onto the back, thus extending the neck all the way through the box and leaving some adjusment possibilities there too.....
Next up I will revert to through necks again, as I just found an lod Oak bed as a supply for the wood....

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