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Permalink Reply by Cigar Box Nation on August 10, 2009 at 9:53am

um, probably everybody in here.

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Permalink Reply by surffrogg on August 10, 2009 at 10:37am

yep

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Permalink Reply by Kevin Sprague (Knotlenny) on August 10, 2009 at 11:07am

ditto. I just cannabilized one myself. It pisses me off when I screw up a good vintage box, but it's always a learning experience.

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Permalink Reply by Dave Alexander on August 10, 2009 at 1:45pm

Go for it. You're creating a CBG builder, not just CBGs.

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Permalink Reply by Roosterman on August 11, 2009 at 1:14am

Yup, me too. First one I ever build played like a stabbed kitten. I threw it in the corner, built another, ironed out the errors, then went back to number 1 when I knew what I was doing!
Its all worth it my friend!! :o)

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Permalink Reply by JUJU on August 11, 2009 at 1:33am

Screwing up is how we all learn for sure we all do it and we all learn from it , if we did not screw up how would we progress
part of the whole building experience is screwing up lol! just keep at it - it's like learning to walk or ride a bike you have many a fall before you get the hang of it , just dont take it too serious and as always measure twice cut once !
juju.

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Permalink Reply by J. K. on August 11, 2009 at 2:19am

I've just built one, but I'm happy with it. It shows off my mistakes and I'm going to keep it as a reminder and because It's my first one.
If the second one and so on turn out not so great I'll probably strip them if I need the parts.

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Permalink Reply by Diane in Chicago on August 11, 2009 at 2:46am

Think THREE times, measure twice and cut once. ;o> (That's what my dad always taught me. But I still have trouble with the first part.)

I have not harvested yet, but I often cast a wandering eye on some of the earlier builds. Sometimes I think I can still fix them. But so far I have just moved on.

soundssogood said:

Screwing up is how we all learn for sure we all do it and we all learn from it , if we did not screw up how would we progress
part of the whole building experience is screwing up lol! just keep at it - it's like learning to walk or ride a bike you have many a fall before you get the hang of it , just dont take it too serious and as always measure twice cut once !
juju.

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Permalink Reply by Mortimer Snerd on August 11, 2009 at 3:05am

yep,, I am a member. I still have my first, but upgraded it with a total make over, the action is still way to high for fretting, I may just hand it to the nephew and let him have it. Any modern parts I have purchased, gets moved to a new build. Any thing hand made, gets left behind.

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Permalink Reply by Jacob Blackwood on August 11, 2009 at 7:28am

I am in the process of rebuilding my first 3-string build. There are photos of it before I starting rebuilding on my CBN page. I made a lot of mistakes on it that I am going to try to fix in the rebuild. I'm going to put a fret board on it to fix the action and slot the headstock.

I thought of scrapping parts out on it, but I like the way it sounds too much to do that. I would suggest trying to fix the things wrong with it instead of just scrapping a bad build. I think it helps you become a better builder. Just my opinion, though.

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Permalink Reply by Wes "I'm Baaaaack" Yates on August 11, 2009 at 8:25am

Same as some others -- rebuilding one of mine. I decided to rework the neck and such on my first. Not a parts-out, but change-out.

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Permalink Reply by joe cerroni on August 11, 2009 at 11:28pm

I've stripped the hardware off several of my earliest builds to use on others and now the skeletons hang on the wall of my back porch. The're being "antiqued" by the weather

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