My first playable 6 string - Cigar Box Nation2024-03-28T23:33:38Zhttps://www.cigarboxnation.com/forum/topics/my-first-playable-6-string?groupUrl=6stringcigarboxguitars&feed=yes&xn_auth=noYes your right rob. I am alre…tag:www.cigarboxnation.com,2016-03-14:2592684:Comment:25439942016-03-14T20:12:05.628ZNick Johnsonhttps://www.cigarboxnation.com/profile/NickJohnson
<p>Yes your right rob. I am already planning my next guitar build. I've just ordered a nice rosewood fingerboard blank, some proper fret wire and I'm going to source so hard wood to make a "posher" version of my guitar. I don't need to rush because I need something to play on now as I have something to practice on. </p>
<p>I've also already promised my girlfriend I'll make her, her first electric guitar although that will have to be more "guitar" looking for her to like it. </p>
<p>I have a ton…</p>
<p>Yes your right rob. I am already planning my next guitar build. I've just ordered a nice rosewood fingerboard blank, some proper fret wire and I'm going to source so hard wood to make a "posher" version of my guitar. I don't need to rush because I need something to play on now as I have something to practice on. </p>
<p>I've also already promised my girlfriend I'll make her, her first electric guitar although that will have to be more "guitar" looking for her to like it. </p>
<p>I have a ton of ideas but not enough time to build them all :-)</p> i, too, made my first home-bu…tag:www.cigarboxnation.com,2016-03-14:2592684:Comment:25435382016-03-14T16:47:14.257ZRob Tabishhttps://www.cigarboxnation.com/profile/RobTabish
<p>i, too, made my first home-built guitar from stuff i had "laying around"...my introduction started with an old Gibson electric guitar neck i picked up off the floor from a temperamental guitar player in a band that played at the bar i frequented back in the day [yes, there is a story to go along with that]. i hung on to that guitar neck, always telling myself i would take the time to use it for something. last year i finally got around to actually building my own instrument. i have, over the…</p>
<p>i, too, made my first home-built guitar from stuff i had "laying around"...my introduction started with an old Gibson electric guitar neck i picked up off the floor from a temperamental guitar player in a band that played at the bar i frequented back in the day [yes, there is a story to go along with that]. i hung on to that guitar neck, always telling myself i would take the time to use it for something. last year i finally got around to actually building my own instrument. i have, over the years, bought acoustic guitars with the intention of playing, but most of the time, those guitars would just sit in the corner, ignored. my playing skill level only getting to the point of being annoying. haha. <br/><br/>when it came time to start putting the guitar together, i watched many youtube videos, read many articles and anecdotes on web sites like Cigar Box Nation, and even talked to several local people who had more experience than i at the art of the Luthier, and put together what i thought was a pretty clever guitar. it was definitely a learning experience for me, if nothing else, and gave me the basic knowledge to tackle building another, much more refined instrument completely from scratch...layering hardwoods for the neck, assembling the body for the right depth of sound, and even hand-cutting my own nut and bridge from bone. the only new parts being the chrome tuning pegs and strings. <br/><br/>this experience has turned into sort of an addiction for me. i am always cruising second hand stores, yard sales, and used instrument sale ads looking for new project ideas. i have picked up several acoustic guitars and even an electric Stratocastor on the cheap, that have been damaged one way or another, with the intention of using them for parts, but have also managed to fix several of them....giving me a small collection of pretty decent guitars of my own. don't be surprise if you catch the same bug the rest of us have, and you end up making several more guitars....i think some of us might need an intervention. haha.. </p> That's an ambitious first bui…tag:www.cigarboxnation.com,2016-03-14:2592684:Comment:25430552016-03-14T07:03:00.844ZPaul Craighttps://www.cigarboxnation.com/profile/PaulCraig
<p>That's an ambitious first build.</p>
<p>You could cut a channel on the back side of the neck, put a steel bar in and fill the rest in with a strip of wood like Fender does their "Skunk Stripe".</p>
<p>That's an ambitious first build.</p>
<p>You could cut a channel on the back side of the neck, put a steel bar in and fill the rest in with a strip of wood like Fender does their "Skunk Stripe".</p>