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Comment by the anonymous pick on August 25, 2012 at 8:31am

heres a link to  my   swamp witch site  ..  you  can get the strings  and  guits too there  ..  even  swamp  froggys   ;-)

 

http://swampwitchguitars.weebly.com/

Comment by the anonymous pick on August 25, 2012 at 8:27am

- jamie   bark  ..    i  may be a little  bias  , but check these  strings out . and give em a listen   (this  is with mag pup  )  but works    on   piezos  / rods  etc  great  too   ..

Find more videos like this on Cigar Box Nation

 

 

 

 

 

Comment by jamie bark on August 25, 2012 at 8:14am

Looking for opinions on string selection... Finding the "plain" strings are too quiet, and unfortunately those were the sets I purchased for the builds i have in the works. I do have a lot of electric strings laying around too, so I have mixed and matched a bit as well and the sound is getting better switching to all wound strings, or at least two wound/ one plain. How much of a difference will going to all acoustic wound strings be? I fretted one neck on a 1x2 piece of maple without a fretboard and I am thinking of keeping electric strings on that one since the neck does bend without much effort... kind of a built in wha wha effect, but I dont think it would hold acoustic strings very well.

Searching the site for "strings" brings up way too much to sort through!

Comment by jamie bark on August 25, 2012 at 5:14am

my piezo pickup is noisy with unwanted sound and quiet with the the good stuff... what's up with that? It was the stuff from Gitty in the basic electrinics kit w/o the voulume control. I mounted it to the box top somewhat close to the neck. I have another CBG that sounds awesome but dont want to make the same mistakes if I add a pickup to it.

Comment by Wichita Sam on August 19, 2012 at 2:26pm

Art,

you are asking both a functional and asthestic question.  As Tom said, you need a little elevation of the fretboard above the box top.  As little as an 1/8 is enough to give you the clearance you need to have a nice fast action and plenty of freeboard above the top.  Many builders like it move free space between the strings and the box top, but it is not necessary.

 

Whether or not to end the fretboard at the box parameter or extend the fretboard onto the box top is mostly a style question.  Very few builders have the need for the extra few frets that an extended fretboard offers.  I've done it both ways, but looks primarily dictate choice.

 

the best,

 

Wichita Sam

Comment by Tom Caneschi aka cbg tom on August 18, 2012 at 3:50pm

You'll get a few opinions on this hear are my thoughts I always design mine so the fret board lays on top of the box for a couple of reasons. #1 you need to leave room for a bridge and if the fret board is level with the box the strings may be too close to the box and might touch it when you strum them #2 you will have to raise the strings so high, so they don't hit the box and that will make it hard to fret the strings. If you are going to make it a slide guitar a lot of what I said shouldn't mater because the strings can be higher than fretted guitars without a problem. Look at pictures of other builders for ideas good luck... tc

Comment by Arthur G on August 18, 2012 at 1:50pm

I am building my first Fretted CBG.  My question is should the top of the fret board be level with to top of the cigar box, and should the should the end of the fret boar stop at the edge of the cigar box.

Art

Comment by Chuck Cobillas on August 18, 2012 at 9:29am

I'm sure it would work, just hard to predict how well the tone will be until you try it. I guess that's all part of the fun building them. I really enjoy it when i get something that I didn't expect that I end up liking better than what I was after in the first place.

Keep us posted on the results.

Best regards,
Chuck

Comment by James Shelton on August 18, 2012 at 7:35am

Thanks for the kind welcome Chuck, I did join the Uke Group.  I really enjoy playing uke, but...I'm a big fan of Delta Blues and I want to learn slide.  I think that means steel strings and therefore I want to give a 3-string CBG a try.  My first question involves the old brass clock face in this photo.  Do you think I could use it like a resonator cone on my CBG build?  It is 6.25" in diameter.

Comment by Chuck Cobillas on August 18, 2012 at 7:24am

Oh, I forgot to mention there is a Ukulele Group on this website you can join if you haven't already.

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