Low Budget Luthier

Thanks . I had fun with it

Thank ya!

Hi Low,

Thanks! It's a pleasure to meet you. You have some unique ideas. Thanks for sharing.

thanks for the kind words Mr. Budget.  biggest lesson learned was that getting tuners to fit in that headstock was a pain.  On the next one I'll likely try to make a square slot for the tuners and graft the scroll onto the top of it.  the neck runs through a slot in the top of the violin and all the way through to the bottom.  I used two of the large Gitty piezo's.....One in was embedded in top an bottom with 3 layers of felt and put in a recess in the neck and the other was embedded on 4 layers each side and placed on the bass side of the cavity.  each is distinctly different and it sounds better with both on .    the violin tailpeice looks really cool....and makes it apain to keep in tune.  I'll likely skip it on the next one.  Good luck.  i would love to see what you come up with.

Happy Birthday bro...hope we both a have a great Birthday day !!!!

Happy Birthday from Miki and I

where do you get the door skin?

thanks.  i was at the cigar box guitar festival today in York Pa

alot of great musicians.

Glenn Kaiser's set was super!!!!

Great time !!!!  Glenn Kaiser's set rocked!!!!!

Thanks for the compliment, I'm new to this and I appreciate it my friend.

Great set of pictures and a brill workshop. I could do with some of those tools, esp the table saw and pillar drill and ......... etc! I'm told the best place round here is the local auction where you can pick stuff up dirt cheap.

Well, for "jus a crappy chinese strat body" you have done a great job of giving it a new personality. It looks like you have generated a bunch of wood chips from that one.

"The Relic" fits nicely. That's going to be one nice guitar when you get done with it.

Thanks for the illumination on that chain saw nibbler. What's it called again? I've not seen one at Menards yet. Now i've got to look for one. Looks like carving fun for sure....

Thanks for jumping in and helping me out.Keep the chips flying

Thank you LBL ;-)

Thanks for the kind words, LBL. I'm a big fan of your work!

Thank you for the welcome. I just finished my first CBG and am looking forward to chatting with folks here.

Thanks for the info. I'm assuming a metal blade would be required. 

Okay, got it. Maybe on this site or elsewhere I saw someone demonstrating doing this. I believe they had reversed the blade so the were pulling the fret board from the inside of the blade towards them self. I did buy a packet of extra blades and one of them is heavier duty and I thought it might be a good one to try cutting fret slots with. Again, thanks.  

Thank you LBL

Thanks LBL. More to come!

Hi Steve. Thanks for the compliment. I love those crazy ukes you're making. Way beyond my carving skill!!

Thank you Low.

I see your online. How do you make posts here? This seems not to be like other sites for posting.

"AMBITIOUS"

Well thank you dear...sounds like I will fit right in!

Thanks on Titties & Tires, Bones!

Happy Birthday Bro !!!  Have a great day !!!!

Thanks, you have a lot of great looking unique guitars.

Thanks for all the kind words!

Greetings. How are things going for you?  I hope you have many worderful days of enjoyment ahead. I have never tried a slide guitar before. I am down for anything. I was thinking I would perfer to try my hand a picking though. I am realy intrested to learn. That being said, Anything you could help me with would be more then appreciated. Thank you for all that you do. It does not go unappreciated. God Bless.

thanks for the kind words, save up some for the autum& winter coming up here,got to bee prepared! greettzzz A.D.

That's an awesome photo of the the lady who played the 3 string now with a 4 string!!!!

Thanx for your nice comment ! see ya.

high mtn high desert north of Taos NM

Thanks for your comment

Get well soon, Bud. We're thinking about you!

I  heard some bad news and Im hoping your feeling much better ,take care of your self steve

Whats a dbl?

Thanks.  It is a little confusing, but I'll figure it out.  Just built my first CBG with mixed results.  It doesn't sound too good and I'm trying to correct some issues.  I'm hopeful that I can find some answers in the forums.  Gary.

alright man , thanks for adding me to the friend list. im diggin on that lappy you are makin.

where can I see your boxes and prices

ok I really like those white ones

hi, this is zeus (daniel walter). you left a nice comment on one of my builds a while back and i just saw it. thank you. i especially remember one of yours that left a block in my head. it was a four string with a custom case, music top and bottom. i know you did more than one, but this is beautiful. i think it was gray with some other stuff. long time ago. incredible work.