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Comment by Joe Caruso on July 7, 2014 at 5:14am

Thanks for sharing - a different way of attaching the neck to the box which I had not seen until now. 

Comment by JL on July 7, 2014 at 4:45am

So here are some pics of my first build, a nice simple pair of diddley bow's.I built one and my girlfriend built the other.

1/4" bolt for the nut.  These tuner's are a tad long, not much break angle over the nut.

But they are working well so I'm leaving them be.  Next time I'll think about a shim to the back of the headstock, or an angled headstock.

1/8" snap rivots for the ferrules, 1/4" bolt for the bridge.

the lower one in this picture has a deeper box and sounds a little nicer to my ear.

Neck is face mounted to the box with a reinforcing cleat behind it.

Piezo pickup and 1/4" jack courtesy of Radio Shack.  It was fun to break the disk out of the buzzer, but I will order raw disks for future builds.

Painter's tape is working very well for mounting the piezo, while I prep for some 'experiments' with felt/leather/cork/etc to see what can reduce feedback from the amp without killing the sound.

Comment by Sawbones on June 26, 2014 at 1:36am

Cool,cant wait to see.I have a couple smaller boxes I'm going to do a didley bo w/,just have too many going on right now!

Wish I could find a box hookup,I get all mine off ebay,so that's where the $$$ goes on my builds.My latest is the best one Ive done and I got the box at goodwill for $4,so the whole thing cost maybe $20.I pay more for just the box on ebay.

Not a luthier,but built a lot of partscasters and kit guitars,so I have a big box of all parts.Tuners and strings are pretty much all I use that are "real" guitar parts.

Those grommets are called ferrules and I just read people are using bicycle spoke nipples.