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Permalink Reply by Sven Pfitt on June 25, 2009 at 3:40am

I think Stewmac is a good source for information although it is more about commercial string instruments.

I've used the fret calculator, and gained a lot of info from reading between the lines in the description of tools they sell.

http://www.stewmac.com/

I got my information about string height above fret from the instructions on using their string height measurement tool, and it was confirmed by a builder I know locally who is getting as much as $900 for guitars he builds (not CBGs though).

Sven

Permalink Reply by Brian Lemin on June 25, 2009 at 8:02pm

Keep the links coming please. After a while I will compile them for a "sticky" (Do we have such a thing as a sticky on this forum?)

Sven Pfitt said:

I think Stewmac is a good source for information although it is more about commercial string instruments.

I've used the fret calculator, and gained a lot of info from reading between the lines in the description of tools they sell.

http://www.stewmac.com/

I got my information about string height above fret from the instructions on using their string height measurement tool, and it was confirmed by a builder I know locally who is getting as much as $900 for guitars he builds (not CBGs though).

Sven

Permalink Reply by Brian Lemin on June 25, 2009 at 8:11pm

I pleasantly surprised that my take on making a CBG is now in the "Free plans" section of the main page. It is in PDF form and presumably can be downloaded if anyone found it would be helpful to them.
It is a very personal approach to building, but I am always open to crits and improvements.

Permalink Reply by steve (Roots) on June 26, 2009 at 3:28am

Brian that is a excellant plan format you put out there. I've buildt quite a few CBG's but can see that it can be very usefull for beginners and us that have built many. I like your writing style and hope you put out more in the future. Maybe reso builds, bolt on necks etc. Thanks Steve (Roots)

Brian Lemin said:

I pleasantly surprised that my take on making a CBG is now in the "Free plans" section of the main page. It is in PDF form and presumably can be downloaded if anyone found it would be helpful to them.
It is a very personal approach to building, but I am always open to crits and improvements.

Permalink Reply by Brian Lemin on June 26, 2009 at 2:14pm

I am afraid that the article I am currently writing is "pseudo academic" but it does eventually come to a conclusion (opinion) about one approach to the construction of an acoustic CBG.

Reso builds is definitely on the cards as it is close to being my next project, but i have to say that there are a couple of great tuts out there on that style. One is a video (I hate videos tutorials) don't get me wrong it is great to see a CBG being built, but i have to keep looking at them. What I do is capture the steps as stills from the video and print them out!

The other project I have is a CBG "Symphony" (a type of medieval hurdy-gurdy) which should prove to be interesting. There is currently one guy on the forum is building a hurdy-gurdy violin I believe.

Meanwhile, thank you for your kind comments.