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building a 4-string cbg

What do you do if you are an apartment dweller who has no tools or woodworking experience, but still wants to build a CBG? Here's a brief article under "Guitar Building" that shows my solution.

https://rickmckeon.com/cbglessons.html

Rick

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Permalink Reply by Rick McKeon on September 10, 2014 at 9:09am

I know it! But it looks like a CBG and sounds great. :) Rick

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Permalink Reply by john mackay on September 12, 2014 at 8:59am

good idea Rick if you can get the doner guitar cheap enough.

these cost quite a bit here even if its need repairing.

you fellas across the pond are so lucky.

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Permalink Reply by Rick McKeon on September 12, 2014 at 9:18am

Good point John. As it turns out I had ordered two of them online really cheap. Well, they both came in broken so I got them both for free. In one case the head was broken right off, but between the two of them there were enough parts to build a CBG.

Rick

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Permalink Reply by john mackay on September 12, 2014 at 9:40am

oh thats nice Rick rub it in

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Permalink Reply by Skeesix on September 17, 2014 at 6:33am

Question - if you had no tools, how did you cut the body and peghead down?

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Permalink Reply by Rick McKeon on September 17, 2014 at 6:42am

Good point. I do have a few simple hand tools - no real woodworking tools. You'll notice in the title of the article I say "almost" no tools and in the first picture I show my coping saw. I also have a screw driver that doesn't show in the picture. :)

Rick

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Permalink Reply by john mackay on September 17, 2014 at 8:19am

I understood what you mean rick ..basic tools without all these fancy machines .

having these machines is cheating eh!

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Permalink Reply by Scruggy on September 24, 2014 at 12:06pm

Where you get the guitar parts from?

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Permalink Reply by Rick McKeon on September 24, 2014 at 1:54pm

I bought them from a guy on ebay. If fact they were starter packages so they included guitar, amp, extra strings, a tuner and chord chart. Well, I ordered two and they both came in damaged so he refunded my money (including shipping) and I got the whole mess for free. I gave the little amps away to a couple of friends who just got CBGs and there were enough parts lift over for me to make my own 4-string. Of course we don't want stuff to come in broken, but in this case it worked out pretty good because I was going to use one of them for parts anyhow!

Rick