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Comment by wormil on August 12, 2012 at 4:55pm

I don't know the best place but Old Lowe sells them:

http://www.cigarboxnation.com/profile/OldLowe

Comment by Stevie Vaughn on August 12, 2012 at 11:37am

Where is the best place to find resonator parts for a CBG?

Comment by ron carlson on July 2, 2012 at 5:29pm

Thanks Mr. cajun.  I was thinking about running it in a couple of inches and shimming the gap sounds like a pretty reasonable solution. I think a composite door shim is about 1-1/2" wide and 1/4" would be about right for the wide end. It wouldn't take much to modify one for a nice fit I would think. They cut easy and I believe they may just take a stain also.

I just can't get make it so the whole works is so high off my box that the pickup I'd like to use won't function well without shimming up the heck out of that also.

Comment by bairfoot cajun on July 2, 2012 at 4:47pm

howdy ron carlson,the situation you are describing is how the necks are set-up on archtop guitars---plenty neck angle with the fingerboard ending on top of the body.most i have seen or worked on have a shim under the fingerboard where it attches at the body.you can make the shim and glue it to the underside of the fingerboard.the result you may have with lots of neck angle will probably give you a lot of distance where your bridge will be, so you will probably need a tall bridge.to make the shim you can just measure the gap between the bottom of the fingerboard at its end where it goes over the body--just for example lets say its 1/4 inch gap--and lets say your fingerboard goes over the box just for example 2 inches..then your shim will be 1/4 at the end to 0 inch at the place where the neck joins the body 2 inches from the edge of the fingerboard that is over the body, and it will be however wide your fingerboard is.not a lot of math in this shim type situation.hope this helps you.

Comment by ron carlson on July 2, 2012 at 3:07pm

Hey!

I have a build question for all you old pro's out there.

I've been sorting out plans for my new geetar. I would like to introduce some neck angle but would also like to have my fretboard run over onto the top of my box.  It just dawned on me that this is going to be problematic. Is there really any way to have both without lowering the neck and cutting more into the box to allow for the fretboard/neck angle???

If you didn't do something similar to that, the fretboard would be elevated off the box I would imagine and get worse the further in you brought it.

I'm going to be building a 2 piece neck from 1" x 2" and 1/4" (wood or bar stock aluminum) material for the fretboard.

I hope this isn't going to involve a lot of math. I hate math ;)

Ron

Comment by PhilUSAFRet on February 10, 2012 at 12:22pm

I was planning on using either the 6" aluminum cone on ebay for about $20 or the brass/aluminum ones on Smokehouse Guitars for $25.  No fancy cover plate, but sure looks like they are worth the money.  Anyone use them yet? Can imbed peizo in bridge.....guess he wire goes down through the cone inside the box?

Comment by PapaSimone on January 1, 2012 at 7:51am

Thanks so much! The Dremel did come with an edge guide. I think I can figure this out with the Dremel and several light passes.

Comment by Jim Mitchell on January 1, 2012 at 5:13am

http://www.cigarboxnation.com/photo/img0014-2?context=user

Above is a link to a couple of pictures on my page of the jig I used to route the channel for my truss-rods... The basic idea is I have an adjustable fence on the underside of the jig. It allows me to position the slot on the neck. There is a collar on the router that guides the cutter. The jig and neck are held in place in the vice.  Note I am in the camp of taking many light passes, something you would have to do with a dremel. (Didn't your dremel come with an edge guide? that's what I would use. ( if that was the only tool I had for the job) One last comment obviously I do all this work before I carve the neck.  Hope this helps the cause. 

Comment by Ian MC Donald on January 1, 2012 at 3:01am

Hi
All you need is to determin the width of your baseplate say its 45mm and your neck is 40mm make a simple jig out of softwood the same width as your baseplate with two upright pieces that project higher than the baseplate including the thickness of the neck,
If you want I will make a simple jig and post the pictures on my page I will use a router for the purpose but a dremmel might not be powerful enough for the job if the cutting blade doesn't rotate high enough you will get the blade pitting with resin forming on the cutter creating a dull edge and subsequent burning,
You can get a pretty good router on eBay I use the trend t30 for smaller work like guitar necks the cost about 90 gbp they are about 800watts you can get a bigger router up to 2000watts but I think the t30 is the one
Hope that helps and I havnt confused you
Let me know and I will make the jig up
Ian

Comment by PapaSimone on January 1, 2012 at 2:36am

I have a Dremel. Does anyone know if there is an attachment jig that would work to make a channel? The side attachment it comes with is too long.

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