Hey ya'll, just finished my first CBG build (after a slight diversion into a diddley bow). The neighbor kid showed up with a CBG his grandparents bought him for his b-day so I tuned it for him & set him down on youtube to watch some playing tutorials. After watching a Justin Johnson video with him I was in the garage the next night working up plans for a cigar box I had propping up bourbon bottles in my cave. I didn't find this place until after, but in the last week I've acquired 6 more boxes & a delivery of tuners from C.B.Gitty and CBN has already given me a ton of ideas & lots of advice I could've used last week. I've had a thing for strings for a long time and am excited combine it with my penchant for crafting things with my own hands and start adding my own builds to my ever growing collection of guitars, ukes, mandolins, dulcimers etc.
CBGitty disk-o-tone piezo pickup
bottle opener tailpiece
machineheads I scored in a junk store turned out to have different length posts, so I adjusted fire with eyebolt tuners
finishing nail frets (once I'd gone with eyebolts I figured why not) & bourbon barrel stave neck brace
like I said, I had a mid-build diversion into diddley bows
But, next up is a lunchbox guitar project with my 3yo.
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Nice work and happy thoughts. Love this last photo. The beer opener is a great tailpiece.
Hi Good ideas there, I like the bottle opener tail piece ...nice nail for the nut too!!...a lunch box guitar is boss...keep your sandwiches in and strum through yer lunch break!!!!
Hope all is well. How have the finishing nail frets worked out? Did you level them? What did you use to glue them in with?
The nails for frets worked out great, and I didn't do any leveling. Though if the string height was lower it might be more apparent that it's necessary. The nails themselves are fairly high compared to regular frets, so that high action combined w/ medium strings and tall frets makes for a decent finger workout, but it sounds decent.
I just cut a slight groove with a miter box saw where I wanted the frets so they wouldn't move around. Then ran some locktite superglue gel into the channel and laid the nail into it.
Some great builds and photos here! Welcome to the 'Nation!
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