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Permalink Reply by Steve Robbins on September 3, 2015 at 10:44am

Hi Gary:

Even though I am a newer member than you... I would like to welcome you to the forum. How far is Argyle from Tyler/Jacksonville?

Steve

Permalink Reply by Gary Ray on September 3, 2015 at 4:02pm

Steve,
Thanks for the welcome! It takes about 2 hours and 15 minutes to go to Tyler from Argyle (where the church is or Aubrey where I live.

Permalink Reply by Blues Frog on September 4, 2015 at 4:26pm

Sounds like you have all the tools neccessary to begin in the world of CBGs. Welcome to the group. there's a whole lotta people heree that are just itchin to see what you come up with. Post lots of pictures so we can see what you've done.

Permalink Reply by Gary Ray on September 4, 2015 at 4:37pm

Will do. I blame my niece for posting a video on Facebook of a guy playing a cigar box guitar for getting me into this. Then I started looking into it and thought it looked pretty easy so I jumped in. Also, there are a couple of songs that we are going to do at church that will benefit from the sound.

Permalink Reply by Gary Ray on November 1, 2015 at 1:10pm

Well, I finally finished my first build. I'm calling it Aslan. The neck is sapele and the fret board and nut is zebrawood. Two comments on the wood. Sapele is great to work with and is quite stiff. It makes a great neck. Zebrawood on the other hand is a pain in the backside. It is quite brittle and hard to sand. However, if one it persistent it makes a pretty cool looking fretboard. I took a chance and make the nut out of it as well. it seems to be holding up so far. After a mistake on the scarf joint I ended up with a 23 inch scale neck. A mis-cut on the box caused me to have to add CB Gitty's birch neck collars to cover the fixing of said mistake. The fortunate part is it allowed me to create a slight (but not enough) back angle on the neck. I'll do better with next time. I hot glued a piezo on the lid and added a pot for volume. I do have to note that a wiring diagram that I found here on the site is incomplete. I will submit my fix to the wiring group. I ended up going with a diatonic scale. I tried to keep the strings low enough to fret but high enough to use a slide. I'm not sure I accomplished that.