It is gone.  I'm a little excited and a little sad.  I really liked it and I was not planning on selling it today, but someone saw it, played it and pulled out cash.  What's a girl to do?

I am now in a frenzy to build its replacement and I have one Punch box.  I think I'm going to try for 3 at the same time and finish in a month.  …

Last week I went to the lumber yard and found a piece of cherry that was in their half off bin.  I got a board about 8" wide and over 4 feet long for a little over $4.  This is 4/4 lumber and there is some very pretty wood in it. 

I am making my own box since one of the guys I work with made a boxjoint jig and is making a guitar along with me on this one.  We are both using spruce for soundboards that formerly graced the insides of a Steinway piano for about 90 years.  

Here…

I really love that there are people here from the other side of the world from me. I think this is one of the best things about the internet and this site in particular.  I am in the southeast part of the United States and getting tips and suggestions from people in New York, Australia, UK, etc is just a treat.  It just deserves being said that I really enjoy this aspect of CBN.

Well, I had every intention of working on my 6 string, but since the box joint jig is not finished I am at an impasse on that project so I took my worst box and my worst piece of neck wood, an imperfect fretboard and embarked on m first 3 string.

The neck is poplar reinforced with two 1/4"X3/8" splines of red oak. 

The fretboard is ebonized maple with maple position dots.

The electrics will be a double piezo embedded in the bridge and wired straight to the jack with no…

I carried #5 to an open mic that my daughter was performing in tonight and the guitarist that I had in mind when I planned this instrument sat in with another performer and used it to play lead and #5 and Rob sounded fantastic.  What a rush to hear a really good picker play an instrument I made and the audience really enjoyed it as well.  To top things off I got a request for a refret on a telecaster. 

My daughter took video of Rob playing my cbg and hopefully I'll get a video up in…

I was so pleased with the size of the box on my last build that I would like to repeat it, and I will, but I'm going to start building my own box tomorrow.  I've sparked interest in at least one person I work with who is now building his own box for his first guitar and since I want to learn how to make boxes I'm going to join him in making one.  He is a really talented guy that can do ANYTHING.  His first is going to be amazing I'm sure and I'm really excited about building my own box.  My…

I won't be using Elemer's yellow glue any more. The thicker viscosity makes it a poor choice for gluing where you are using anything other than substantial clamps.  Spring clamps just don't have the force to give a good glue line using Elmers.  Titebond is a little thinner and this helps it perform better under clamping pressure. 

Well, I'm waiting for the corners to come back from being nickel plated, but the time is here for me to think about my next build.  Decisions, decisions, decisions! Several weeks ago I bought a really beautiful quartersawn oak board with really straight grain and not a hint of a knot anywhere.  There is enough in that board to make 5 or 6 necks.  Today I bought a  really nice piece of jatoba very nearly on the quarter.  Only the ends of the board give it away, Really nice color, hard as a…

How did this happen? Who cares, I'm having a really great time building these instruments and I thought I would put up a little rant about what I have in mind for some future builds, stuff I have bought related to this lovely addiction and whatever else comes to this weary old mind of mine.

My blogs will look like an exercise in loose association and can be extremely random, so there you go.