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Permalink Reply by Richard Sanabia on February 18, 2010 at 10:55am

Wow, cool name, cool cat....you have it all.

Permalink Reply by Fat Toe Fozzie on February 18, 2010 at 12:30pm

Everything excepts frets on my CBG!-FTF

Richard Sanabia said:

Wow, cool name, cool cat....you have it all.

Permalink Reply by KaptnKen on February 18, 2010 at 12:53pm

Yup, scale length is the distance from the nut to the bridge. My first is a fretless too and I used the fret calculator at Stewart-MacDonald. I'd recommend using millimeters as your measurement scale rather than inches as it's easier to figure out where 128.9 mm is on a ruler than where 5.054 inches is. I used a soldering iron to burn the fret lines in on mine...you can see them on my page if you want to take a look. And yeah....cool name :)

Permalink Reply by Fat Toe Fozzie on February 18, 2010 at 3:11pm

Looks like my soldering iron will come back out of the shop!! That looks real good KaptnKen. So if my bridge to nut measurement is 26" and 22 frets is standard I just plug them into the calculator and ta-da! I've got this thing right where I want her so I don't wanna screw up now! -FTF

KaptnKen said:

Yup, scale length is the distance from the nut to the bridge. My first is a fretless too and I used the fret calculator at Stewart-MacDonald. I'd recommend using millimeters as your measurement scale rather than inches as it's easier to figure out where 128.9 mm is on a ruler than where 5.054 inches is. I used a soldering iron to burn the fret lines in on mine...you can see them on my page if you want to take a look. And yeah....cool name :)

Permalink Reply by Fat Toe Fozzie on February 19, 2010 at 11:28am

Well I tried to tuner her up and everything went to heck real quick. The tuners bent and snapped the strings came back and wacked me in the face and I yelled a word that I had forgotten years ago!! Guess I'll be buying one because I don't have the time to build another!! For a half a second I thought I had built something that actually sounded nice!! Oh well, anybody have one to sell?........ Oh the word I yelled was rhutabaga!!

Permalink Reply by MichaelS Country Boy Guitars on February 19, 2010 at 11:57am

Don't give up yet, sounds like you just cranked the tuners a bit too far, could you just replace the bent tuners and try again? I just finished my first and I broke 1 string in the process, but my tuner survived so its ok. Playing your own creation is half the fun, not sure what the other half is.

Permalink Reply by KaptnKen on February 19, 2010 at 12:40pm

Yeah, don't stop now! Get them tuners in shape, re-string it and play! Besides, it sounds like you have the inspiration for a song there..."Rhutabaga Blues" :)

Permalink Reply by Fat Toe Fozzie on February 19, 2010 at 5:25pm

I don't know guys. I think the reason they bent is because I made the holes too big. I am afraid I would have to scrap everything except the piezo and the input jack!!! I don't know if I want to start from scratch on a second one....... although if I made the neck with a slant the pressure on the tuners would be less...........hmm.........-FTF