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Permalink Reply by Tom T on September 23, 2015 at 1:50pm

Don't worry about the neck. I built a four stringer with a maple neck about 1/4" wider than the normal 1x2 stick. Played it for about a year and decided I wanted to try a five stringer (a-la Keith Richards). I just took the five smaller string from a six string pack (medium weight), added another tuner, a new bridge and nut and I was in business. I tuned it to open G and it sounds great. I love to get the drums going on my pedal and give Honky Tonk Woman a go. There is a good YouTube video showing the basic riff using a 3 string CBG. The fiver sounds even better.

No problems with the neck and I play it daily.

Give it a go, you'll love the sound.

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Permalink Reply by Comrade Paul on September 30, 2015 at 6:53am

Thanks for sharing, I'm encoured to keep going. I'll let you know how it turns out

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Permalink Reply by Ron "Oily" Sprague on September 30, 2015 at 7:10am

Paul,

PM Eric Davenport here on CBN. He builds lovely five bangers from metal Sawzall boxes. Here's a vid of one of his being played by Frank of Frank Bang and the Secret Stash:

https://www.facebook.com/eric.davenport.779/posts/953610147994904:1

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