Just finished an electric tenor ukulele for my Great Grandson, Adam. He's a Star Wars nut. Started with two pieces of 2 X 8 scrap. The bridge is a mite unusual built up from 7 pieces of wood and....…
ContinueAdded by Steve Bookout on February 21, 2021 at 7:04am — 6 Comments
I went down to the local Goodwill Store and found a Radio Shack AM / FM / Weather radio for $6.00. (the four C-cell batteries cost me $10.00 - go figure). I don't get too much distortion at full volume (except when I use my Gitty Psycho knob.) One trick I used to find the right lead on the volume pot was to play music on my i-phone and put the phone directly over the pick-up on my CBG so that I get a constant signal from the jack to the pot and I don't have to keep strumming the guitar. This…
ContinueAdded by Billy Cline on February 18, 2021 at 11:44am — 7 Comments
It`s been an age since I built a guitar due to the amount of gear out there and the fact all my relatives and friends have been gifted!
As a result I decided to re-visit an old 3 stringer I built several years ago. It`s a guitar I was never really happy with but I was loathe to get rid.
So I stripped it back and added a radius to the neck and refitted the frets. I kept the old under saddle pickup and decided to change it from a red stained wood and black fretboard to a black…
ContinueAdded by t-belly johnson on February 13, 2021 at 6:21am — 4 Comments
Boy it's been a while since I haven't posted anything here. But I must say that that confinement and this pandemic have taken the wind out of my cigar box building. Nowadays, getting hurt when working with power tools is not an option. So I had to divert my attention to other stuff.
Now I don't know if this will be of any interest to anyone, but I found it to be really a nice thing. There is a photographer named Timothy Duffy who is working on a project where he photographs non-famous…
ContinueAdded by François on February 1, 2021 at 11:27am — 3 Comments
Hey guys. This is just a little teaser for an upcoming builders swap. I'm collaborating with 2 other Texas-based CBN members and we're going to do a 3-way CBG swap to celebrate Texas on her 185th birthday. Here is the lineup:
Builder #1: Steve's Strings, based in the San Antonio area > …
ContinueAdded by Poorness Studios on February 1, 2021 at 8:30am — 4 Comments
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