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my first buld completed today.

Posted by mr seitan on December 19, 2010 at 2:34pm in Building Secrets, Tips, Advice, Discussion

i kept putting off starting this build, as i was so excited about doing it! this weekend has been messed up by snow. so, as i couldnt go out on my mx bike, i thought id start on the cbg.

im really happy with what ive done ,tho i know its a big learning curve and there are things ive done wrong, or, at least, not as id have wanted to do them.

with a wood saw, battery drill, wood chisels and a rubber mallet, i built this fro mstart to finish in 5 hours, in my shed, in the freezing cold!

my laptop is now on and im just about to start recording my first song with a cbg.

 

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  • mr seitan December 22, 2010 at 10:44am
    oh brilliant, thanks for that, i will be getting some from him!

    David Lloyd said:

    I think it is great you are experimenting with different things.  If you decide to check out fretwire in the UK this man is good off ebay http://shop.ebay.co.uk/snowcauldron/m.html and for example 2ft of wire costs only £1.85.  Postage is £2.20 for however many lengths you buy.http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Narrow-Fret-Wire-Fretwire-Vintage-Banjo-Guita...


    mr seitan said:

    today i realised i needed frets, so i set about finding an appropriate material.

    first i messed up cutting the neck for the frets, but got away with it. i have just realised i made a  big mistake tho. i used 2-3mm bolts with the heads cut off. of course, i cant bend the strings!! schoolboy error!

    i have enough wood for 2 more necks, so ill just try another one, but this time using nails not bolts!

  • David L. December 21, 2010 at 5:04pm

    I think it is great you are experimenting with different things.  If you decide to check out fretwire in the UK this man is good off ebay http://shop.ebay.co.uk/snowcauldron/m.html and for example 2ft of wire costs only £1.85.  Postage is £2.20 for however many lengths you buy.http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Narrow-Fret-Wire-Fretwire-Vintage-Banjo-Guita...


    mr seitan said:

    today i realised i needed frets, so i set about finding an appropriate material.

    first i messed up cutting the neck for the frets, but got away with it. i have just realised i made a  big mistake tho. i used 2-3mm bolts with the heads cut off. of course, i cant bend the strings!! schoolboy error!

    i have enough wood for 2 more necks, so ill just try another one, but this time using nails not bolts!

  • mr seitan December 21, 2010 at 4:33pm

    and dont buy cheap pickups, they keep breaking down!!

  • mr seitan December 21, 2010 at 4:23pm

    today i realised i needed frets, so i set about finding an appropriate material.

    first i messed up cutting the neck for the frets, but got away with it. i have just realised i made a  big mistake tho. i used 2-3mm bolts with the heads cut off. of course, i cant bend the strings!! schoolboy error!

    i have enough wood for 2 more necks, so ill just try another one, but this time using nails not bolts!

  • Stone Barnard December 20, 2010 at 10:12am

    I like the v notch in the head! I see it as a nice touch of 'rock' , yeah!

  • colin mcgrath December 19, 2010 at 11:10pm

    It was wood but was very used and partly rotten, the wood would have to be prepared well. I just made the thought I always put to my little girls "will this be something you really need right now? And will it be put to good use before it ends up as just in the way?". So I left it. We always have good dumpster scores around anyway.

    Shawn said:

    The latter could be made into a neck for a lap steel. Was it wood? If it was the fiberglass kind you could inlay wood into the channel to make the lap steel. I look at everthing differntly now chopsticks are nut and saddle parts as well as fret markers. Plexi glass is pickguards, saw blades are reso parts. Curtin rods are arm rests. You name it

    colin mcgrath said:

    Punk is good! playing along with any of them yet?

    Shawn, I passed a ladder in the alley and paused for a minute, thinking how I could attach strings to it.
    mr seitan said:

    ha ha, there are 500lps and 1000 7"s, 90% of that is punk!

    colin mcgrath said:

    Whoohoo! Dig all those records man.

  • Noisemaker59 December 19, 2010 at 10:59pm

    Nice one! But...now you've done it...opened a WHOLE CAN OF WORMS with this build (addiction)!! I agree, that bike s fair game for parts for future builds. I'm always looking at things with the intention of using them on builds someday. Also, my guitars are lonely.....they don't get the love & attention anymore.

  • Shawn December 19, 2010 at 10:53pm
    The latter could be made into a neck for a lap steel. Was it wood? If it was the fiberglass kind you could inlay wood into the channel to make the lap steel. I look at everthing differntly now chopsticks are nut and saddle parts as well as fret markers. Plexi glass is pickguards, saw blades are reso parts. Curtin rods are arm rests. You name it

    colin mcgrath said:

    Punk is good! playing along with any of them yet?

    Shawn, I passed a ladder in the alley and paused for a minute, thinking how I could attach strings to it.
    mr seitan said:

    ha ha, there are 500lps and 1000 7"s, 90% of that is punk!

    colin mcgrath said:

    Whoohoo! Dig all those records man.

  • colin mcgrath December 19, 2010 at 10:41pm

    Punk is good! playing along with any of them yet?

    Shawn, I passed a ladder in the alley and paused for a minute, thinking how I could attach strings to it.
    mr seitan said:

    ha ha, there are 500lps and 1000 7"s, 90% of that is punk!

    colin mcgrath said:

    Whoohoo! Dig all those records man.

  • Shawn December 19, 2010 at 10:03pm
    Yah I hear yah on that I have an epiphone special 2 LP and an 80s jackson guitar and my handbuilt El Fuego I built at a guitar school as well as a seagull acustic guitar but I play my 6 string CBG more then them. I'm up to 23 diffrent cbg now have 3,4 and 6 strings as well as a diddly bow. Wife said I need to sell some so started working on getting a biz going. My space looks like a guitar shop. Love that magic of hearing that first strum of the strings on each build it's like the sound of a newborn sweet to the ears.

    mr seitan said:


    thanks shawn. ive been sat here playing it for the past hour and cant put it down! i have an ibanex 6 string, epiphone 6 string, bc rich 7 string, but i want to  play the 3 string cbg!!
    Shawn said:

    Welcome to your new addiction. There is no 12 step program,and there is no rehab treatment. The first one is done and you are already thinking of the things you will do better on the next one, and soon you will look at your bike parts in a diffrent way. It has started welcome to the Box side. Nice job on your first one can't wait to see the next one.
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