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distancing problems between strings and fretboard.

Started this discussion. Last reply by Caibo Sep 1, 2011. 3 Replies

Hi all, ive just completed my first CBG and after a SERIOUSLY botched job i have ended up one string short, a neck lower then the lid of the box and a huge spacing between the string and fretboard,…Continue

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Hey guys!

So having built the incredibly botched "Thrustmeister 3000" and adding an extra string with wood-glue and off-cuttings from the neck, the only thing that went to plan was the electrics, im currently actually setting about learning to actually play the instrument i have created, which isn't the easiest of things when im used to playing a 6 string strat without a slide, or the blues scale. Here we go! 

 

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At 8:40pm on September 2, 2011, Yellowbelly Flatt said…

Hi tghere Caibo,

welcome to the nation and to the Brits. Do you remember who you heard playing the cigar box that started your interest?

 
 
 

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