I had to inset these tuners. I thought they were long enough, but they weren't. Next time I'll go back to my favorite Ping tuners. I had already drilled the primary hole for the tuners, and it's hard to go back with a larger Forstner bit and line it up propperly. I had some dowel the same diameter as the holes, so I cut off small bits & tapped it into the holes. Then I went back with the larger Forstner to make the insets. It worked! Then I tapped the remaining dowel out. Whew!

I've wanted to build a license plate guitar since I first started researching how to build a CBG last year. After thinking through my approach, I made this 4 banger (my 1st 4 string) over the course of 3 days. It was built with a hand saw, miter box, power drill, Dremmel, wood glue, & sand paper. :) I used a uke bridge with a rod piezo pickup ($6 total cost!). Had to drill a hole through the plate to run the piezo lead through to the preamp. This preamp is amazing! It only cost $10, and I will never build another piezo guitar for myself without a preamp. Huge improvement on output and tone.