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Do Measurements Matter?
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My former coworker gave me a couple of cigar boxes with all of the hardware, because he never got around to putting them together. I'm decent with woodworking but I know next to nothing about musical…Continue
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"Hi, What matters is that people's contributions can be read. What measures can be taken to fix that? Taff"
"Simple answer: refer to these free plans as a great starting point resource"
"Hi, you just beat me to that same comment Carl, thought it might have been a typo.
It is accepted that the scale length is the vibrating length of a string. Calculating from the back of the nut will change the vibrating length of the string by the…"
"so YOU are the sadistic evil scientist?"
"" if you use a rectangular nut the location of the nut is the back of that rectangle"
In my mind, I always called the vibrating string side of the nut the front. For that is the important, business side of the nut. ;)"
"1) the nomenclature is designed by a sadistic evil scientist. the string which is strung on top is the low string, the string strung on the bottom is the high string, fretting closer to the bridge, and there fore closer to the floor, plays a higher…"
"If you do not follow the mathematical guidelines of string & scale length, you will end up with guitars that will never be in tune, nor sound any good? There are plenty of discussions on this topic to be searched, the Search box is way at the…"
Do Measurements Matter?
My former coworker gave me a couple of cigar boxes with all of the hardware, because he never got around to putting them together. I'm decent with woodworking but I know next to nothing about musical instruments.Do I need to have specific measurements for the length of the neck, placing/size of the hole, etc. or do I just put it together however I think is aesthetically pleasing and then tune the strings until they play the correct note?See More
"Welcome, check out the Resources tab for build/play info and join some groups located in the Posts tab? Forum is for questions and Blog posts are for sharing your build processes? Site is old and has a glitch, here’s the trick to post:"
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- How did you learn about Cigar Box Nation?
- From a coworker
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- What do you find most interesting about cigar box guitars? (If you do not enter something meaningful here (at least one sentence long), your membership may be rejected as a spam/bot fake account).
- I like that it's a legitimate functional musical instrument and piece of art that can be built without the requirement of the fancy techniques that are used to build traditional guitars.
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- At 6:08am on April 25, 2022,
BrianQ. said…
Welcome, check out the Resources tab for build/play info and join some groups located in the Posts tab? Forum is for questions and Blog posts are for sharing your build processes? Site is old and has a glitch, here’s the trick to post:
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