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At 5:36pm on November 3, 2011, Brian Reagor said…: btw...the bridge is glued and screw to box, the box is glued shut and the neck is glued to the inside of the lid of the box.

At 5:17pm on November 3, 2011, Brian Reagor said…: My high pitched 4 stringer...

At 5:10pm on November 3, 2011, Brian Reagor said…: Hi John, I came across something quite by accident a few weeks ago, I thought about you and getting the best sound from a box/bridge placement.

I just built another cigar box guitar, made it a 4 string, anyway I was appearently so concerned with the neck and scale length measurement that I kind of built it in reverse, kind of from the tuners on upward. Anyway, when it came time to look at bridge placement on the box, finding the center from nut to bridge based on the 12th fret slot, I had to place the bridge where it numerically figured out to be placed, which on the boxes 10-3/8" length put the saddle at 4-3/8" from the end of the box so that the 12th frets location is correct. It has two sound holes, it's a 24-1/2" scale, 21 frets and its tone is high compared to anything I have ever heard, also to get a good tone when strumming I have to use pick at edge of box, (by neck), or its very tinny sounding. I have changed strings twice and went back to standard ADg + ? ( i think G or A), don't remember, I think it should be an F# when in tune, anyway I now tend to think that bridge placement at a 1/4 to 1/2 the length of the box from end is about where it needs to be to give best tone unless your looking for a specific higher pitch tone. From now on I will determine where my bridge should be placed on box and then worry about scale lengths/string and overall neck lengths then make my adjustments from there.

At 12:45pm on November 2, 2011, dogfinger steve said…: thanks john, song's been hangin around for a while n it's good to get it out:0)

At 7:14am on October 31, 2011, darren brown said…: hi john theres an i beem under the fret board 6 strings i use a truss rod , thanks for the comment .

At 1:40am on October 30, 2011, darren brown said…: hi john ,the strings you want a heavy gage ,dean marklys 12,s jass the adgbe ones tuned open g ,gdgbd ,al la kith richards ,if you look at his guitars a lot have that big e removed from the guitar gets in the way of open g .thanks for the comments .db.

At 11:12am on October 28, 2011, Matthew Borczon said…: Thanks for the kind words on my song. it is my only attempt at a christmas song. Will need to think of what I plan to do this year. Thanks again

At 8:00am on October 23, 2011, Scott Winburn said…: Hi John, thanks for checking in... things are well, i've just been taking a break. I still have a workbench full of unfinished projects that i'm sure i'll find the motivation to work on sooner or later. This summer i put my efforts in other places, like throwing a 3-day music festival for my wife's 40th birthday. Sooo fun, it was awesome. Anyway, congrats on your new website... i checked it out and it looks real nice. Best wishes & happy building, -scott

At 5:10am on October 19, 2011, Phill Hill Charlie said…: Hey John.... many thanks...your french is good... i'm honoured !!!

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At 10:26am on October 17, 2011, Mike Bingham said…: Thanks for the friend invitation John. I appreciate that and it's my pleasure to accept.

At 1:44am on October 15, 2011, olly said…: Hey John just to let you know Iv just put up a post on my blog about your new website and a link to it. If you dont want it up just tell me and ill take it down

olly

At 1:02pm on October 14, 2011, Richard G Caudill said…: Well ,, I did too!!!! gues that's an "oops" on both of us !!

At 8:19am on October 13, 2011, Laurie Lee Campbell said…: Thankyou John!! I been tired and busy--not a great combo....the boogie was almost an improv..(it shows, raw take),,,,,cannot help goofing off....I raised the strings to play BeStillRoys teacup reso as a slider...now off to chores...

At 8:17am on October 13, 2011, olly said…: thanks for the comment I really appriciate it ans as far as the blog goes not really sure but it would we great to have a poular blog. thanks.

At 8:05am on October 13, 2011, olly said…: thanks for the freind request John. please check out my blog its http://cigarboxguitarblog.blogspot.com/ iv just started it. cheers !

At 2:25am on October 13, 2011, Stu Crane AKA aboynamedstu said…: It's certainly been useful and friendly in my first few hours, I'm based in Plaistow but get around a lot of areas of London playing and watching gigs, so hopefully get to meet some of the people here in person at some point.

At 11:29pm on October 10, 2011, Keni Lee Burgess said…: Thank you John for your comment. Don't know what I was thinking. Where is that darn hat? Enjoy.

At 12:54am on October 10, 2011, smojo said…: cheers and thanks for the invite

At 11:58am on September 23, 2011, Keni Lee Burgess said…: Thank you John for taking the time to respond. Always nice to hear a kind word from a CBN friend. Enjoy.