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"Just stagger the tuners ..they don't need to be mounted symmetrically." ChickenboneJohn replied Dec 13, 2009 to advice from experienced builders	3	Dec 13, 2009 Reply by ChickenboneJohn
"When you say 'full length' what do you mean? Scale length is the distance from nut t…" ChickenboneJohn replied Dec 6, 2009 to Just finished first 3 string cbg which strings?	6	Dec 6, 2009 Reply by Roger Martin
"Depends on electric or acoustic, scale length and the tuning you are shooting for...…" ChickenboneJohn replied Dec 6, 2009 to Just finished first 3 string cbg which strings?	6	Dec 6, 2009 Reply by Roger Martin
"Conventional way is to build the neck, make the fretboard, slot it, glue-up then fre…" ChickenboneJohn replied Dec 4, 2009 to Sanders,	10	Dec 4, 2009 Reply by ChickenboneJohn
"Planer type invention?..have you tried using an old fashioned hand plane? It's low t…" ChickenboneJohn replied Dec 3, 2009 to Sanders,	10	Dec 4, 2009 Reply by ChickenboneJohn
"By the way, when you are glueing the fretboard on, drive in a veneer pin at both end…" ChickenboneJohn replied Dec 3, 2009 to Attatching and fretting a fretboard...?	19	Dec 3, 2009 Reply by Julian Perry
"I cut the neck to width but leave it square, leave the fretboard a little over-width…" ChickenboneJohn replied Dec 3, 2009 to Attatching and fretting a fretboard...?	19	Dec 3, 2009 Reply by Julian Perry
"The fretting on a dulcimer or dulcimer style CBG is "diatonic", that is to say it's…" ChickenboneJohn replied Dec 1, 2009 to If Dulci scale is so easy...why anything else?	7	Dec 2, 2009 Reply by Roger Martin
"That's what I figured....after being around the music scene for while...guess I'm pr…" ChickenboneJohn replied Nov 29, 2009 to Dates in Germany	6	May 7, 2012 Reply by Leadfoot T
"Bear in mind the cone acts like a loudspeaker in how it moves the air to create the…" ChickenboneJohn replied Nov 29, 2009 to Aluminium or steel reso cone	7	Nov 30, 2009 Reply by Serge Bazinet

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ChickenboneJohn's Discussions (1,406)

"Just stagger the tuners ..they don't need to be mounted symmetrically."

"When you say 'full length' what do you mean? Scale length is the distance from nut t…"

"Depends on electric or acoustic, scale length and the tuning you are shooting for...…"

"Conventional way is to build the neck, make the fretboard, slot it, glue-up then fre…"

"Planer type invention?..have you tried using an old fashioned hand plane? It's low t…"

"By the way, when you are glueing the fretboard on, drive in a veneer pin at both end…"

"I cut the neck to width but leave it square, leave the fretboard a little over-width…"

"The fretting on a dulcimer or dulcimer style CBG is "diatonic", that is to say it's…"

"That's what I figured....after being around the music scene for while...guess I'm pr…"

"Bear in mind the cone acts like a loudspeaker in how it moves the air to create the…"

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