hi, just signed up, and have quite a few question's,
cant play and never made a cbg, but i'm going to do both,
anyone grafted a standard guitar neck onto a cigar box, only asking as i've just bought a box (pic) and i have this old guitar i bought 20 years ago, it's called a "SATELLITE" , 24 1/2" from nut to bridge, thinking to use 3 or 4 string's, make a new nut and bridge, and use the jack, p/up etc, any thought's,
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Wes Yates said:???
How you gonna do that? If you use a premade neck you have to attach it the way that it was originally. If the neck we see is screwed on to the body you have to screw it on to the CBG box. I'm making one out of an Arturo Fuente King B box and am having to put plywood inside to make the box solid.
-WY
PAUL HAMMERSLEY said:Mark Myers said:I tried my first time to put a real neck on a 3 string by just bolting it to the front and it bowed bad. I have since built a 6 string cigar box with that neck and its a great guitar. Make sure to use that pickup in whatever you build.
not just bolting the neck to the box, making it a through box type, why use that pickup,?
think this will work,
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Here's where I'm headed:
good looking, clean approach to a "pocket" neck design....
Wes Yates said:Here's where I'm headed:
Here's where I'm headed
Thanks Sam. I still have my concerns that it actually will work tho. My biggest fear is that the pocket area doesn't have enough support. I guess I will see. On my ES-335 clone, there isn't much more but that could be a diferent wood. Keep in mind all that this is sheets of 3/8" plywood cut like layers so that I have channels for wiring and the pickups. All of them will be glued together before assembly and that I still have the 1/4" top and bottoms as part of the body.
So my biggest challenge is how to angle the neck back when all the wood is flat. Solution came to me in church! Make a 1-2 deg wedge/shim and put it in the pocket. Voila! And if I want to change the angle simply add or change the shim.
NOTE: the nails are so that I could get the sheets aligned for cutting and gluing. They will be removed before assembly.
-WY
Wichita Sam said:good looking, clean approach to a "pocket" neck design....
Wes Yates said:Here's where I'm headed:
If the CBG is atleast as thick as the guitar the neck came off of, strength should not be a problem... I build mostly pocket necks now, but use solid hardwood for the fill. Also, I don't fill the whole box, just the width that the neck extends into the box. the neck is attached to a 3-4 inch wide block, that is glued to the box.
Wes Yates said:Thanks Sam. I still have my concerns that it actually will work tho. My biggest fear is that the pocket area doesn't have enough support. I guess I will see. On my ES-335 clone, there isn't much more but that could be a diferent wood. Keep in mind all that this is sheets of 3/8" plywood cut like layers so that I have channels for wiring and the pickups. All of them will be glued together before assembly and that I still have the 1/4" top and bottoms as part of the body.
So my biggest challenge is how to angle the neck back when all the wood is flat. Solution came to me in church! Make a 1-2 deg wedge/shim and put it in the pocket. Voila! And if I want to change the angle simply add or change the shim.
NOTE: the nails are so that I could get the sheets aligned for cutting and gluing. They will be removed before assembly.
-WY
Wichita Sam said:good looking, clean approach to a "pocket" neck design....
Wes Yates said:Here's where I'm headed:
Wes Yates said:Here's where I'm headed
Wes, can you go over what you did here? I'm piqued by your process...
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