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Permalink Reply by Reeds Taylor on June 26, 2014 at 6:28am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPTQmyNbwpY

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Permalink Reply by Rick on June 26, 2014 at 6:55am

Thanks i will try that tonite we did try to set this but the video gave me more info than i had before thanks again

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Permalink Reply by Rick McKeon on June 26, 2014 at 9:21am

A lot of CBGs have pretty high action because they were designed primarily for slide playing. Like they said in the video if you push down on the string to fret it you will be stretching it and causing it to go sharp. If you are not a builder - maybe you just bought the guitar and don't have the tools or don't want to do any modifications you can just put a capo on the first fret. This will bring the action down and stretch the strings. If you want to be in a standard tuning just retune with the capo on. You will be bringing them down about a 1/2 step.

Rick

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Permalink Reply by Rick on June 26, 2014 at 9:31am

Thanks i dont have a capo but i did build this cbg and have the tools but i am already down to .050 over the first frett so i cant go much more like they showed in the youtube video i will try but afraid it wont work this is my second build the first one was just for using a slide so this is my first time with fretts thanks for the help

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Permalink Reply by Ron "Oily" Sprague on June 26, 2014 at 1:28pm

Check your bridge placement and angle across the box top.

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Permalink Reply by Rick on June 27, 2014 at 1:44am

Ok i will move the bridage we thought we had this set before so i glued the bridage down i tried tuning like they showed in the video on the first 4 fretts but cant get it not to be sharp thanks for the help

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Permalink Reply by Rick on June 27, 2014 at 5:06pm

Thanks ron you were dead on

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Permalink Reply by Ron "Oily" Sprague on June 27, 2014 at 7:56pm

Glad you got it solved. Future reference for future builds: floating bridge is good.

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