My son plays and performs with a six and 12 string. He scoffs when I talk about you playing and building 3 string cigar box guitars on You Tube. That's it... YesI. I will buy him one and make him play it.
Hello Del! Good to see that you are still busy in the Cigar Box Factory, and fervent hope that all your efforts will be rewarded with many successful sales during this ever-more demanding virus lockdown time with little or no income coming in! (Is Intel still busy?). Take care all, be safe, and keep on strumming those 3 strings!...😉...😉...!
Del, another great video. I have a few questions and comments Do some of your guitars have cardboard lids? If so, what has your experience been? Some of the boxes with great graphics are cardboard. The ones with the best wood show it off. (But sometimes it’s cardboard with a whisper thin veneer of fancy wood) Is 23” your most common scale? I love the magnets. I might try that. Easy to find small rare earth magnets, and only takes a drilled hole to install. I go to Home Depot for yardsticks and stakes. If you take your time, you can select ones where the grain is perfectly perpendicular to the fretboard (quarter sawn). Sometimes there aren’t any, I just come back later instead of buying less than perfect ones. Stakes from building sites take some dedication, but if they’re straight you know they’ll stay that way, and the weather staining sometimes looks great under a clear finish. (Best to ask when the stakes are being taken down...)
My first CBG was an all cardboard Phillies blunt box. The neck does not have a heel but is reinforced with blocks of wood almost like in this video. The bridge is attached on top through to the neck so no tension from the strings even touch cardboard. Sounds good. I too have boxes with cardboard tops and will still use them in the future.
I cringe when I see the untrimmed ends of the strings swinging around near your cornea. (6:30). Years ago my father was turning the page of the newspaper and the corner somehow scratched his cornea. Took years to get better. I shudder to think what a sharp wire can do.
I usually have 2-4 CBGs on the bench at the same time also. Once I was putting a snake skin I came across on the necks of two builds. After I got them completed, I discovered that on one of them, I had messed up fret positioning on the fretboard. I still have not figured how to correct that. I don’t want to use any heat because I smell certain it would ruin the snakeskin. It will probably be one of my winter projects. For now I just set it up for slide
I need to figure out a rhythm to working on multiple guitars at once. It is hard to keep them straight (what goes with what). I will share that I have been using small-ish, plastic bins (like the medium sized drawers in a small parts cabinet) to keep parts together. That seems to help quite a bit so I don't waste time wondering where I laid something down. Good luck, Del!
Del makes outstanding guitars. I have number 324, and consider it a treasure. Keep him in business! Buy his guitars!
My son plays and performs with a six and 12 string. He scoffs when I talk about you playing and building 3 string cigar box guitars on You Tube. That's it... YesI. I will buy him one and make him play it.
He will be hooked! I've never even held a 6 stringer so my thoughts are the exact opposite.
Interesting vid as always. Some great playing around minute 6.5... and congrats on your web site... very nice!
I love the 'bullseye' 12th fret marker! 😎👍🏼
Nice! How much you selling them for?
Are your necks narrower as a yard stick, or those that I have I have seen do not cover the 3/4x1.5 in stock neck(cbgitty)?
Hey Del,Love your videos. I am wondering why you use shorter scale necks a lot? Like 23 inch vs 25 or so?
I think (my opinion) that the smaller scale length better suits /matches the size of the box. Better proportion. More balanced.
Hello Del! Good to see that you are still busy in the Cigar Box Factory, and fervent hope that all your efforts will be rewarded with many successful sales during this ever-more demanding virus lockdown time with little or no income coming in! (Is Intel still busy?). Take care all, be safe, and keep on strumming those 3 strings!...😉...😉...!
He is getttin Retirement mones jg
Del, another great video. I have a few questions and comments
Do some of your guitars have cardboard lids? If so, what has your experience been? Some of the boxes with great graphics are cardboard. The ones with the best wood show it off. (But sometimes it’s cardboard with a whisper thin veneer of fancy wood)
Is 23” your most common scale?
I love the magnets. I might try that. Easy to find small rare earth magnets, and only takes a drilled hole to install.
I go to Home Depot for yardsticks and stakes. If you take your time, you can select ones where the grain is perfectly perpendicular to the fretboard (quarter sawn). Sometimes there aren’t any, I just come back later instead of buying less than perfect ones.
Stakes from building sites take some dedication, but if they’re straight you know they’ll stay that way, and the weather staining sometimes looks great under a clear finish. (Best to ask when the stakes are being taken down...)
My first CBG was an all cardboard Phillies blunt box. The neck does not have a heel but is reinforced with blocks of wood almost like in this video. The bridge is attached on top through to the neck so no tension from the strings even touch cardboard. Sounds good. I too have boxes with cardboard tops and will still use them in the future.
I cringe when I see the untrimmed ends of the strings swinging around near your cornea. (6:30). Years ago my father was turning the page of the newspaper and the corner somehow scratched his cornea. Took years to get better. I shudder to think what a sharp wire can do.
I usually have 2-4 CBGs on the bench at the same time also. Once I was putting a snake skin I came across on the necks of two builds. After I got them completed, I discovered that on one of them, I had messed up fret positioning on the fretboard. I still have not figured how to correct that. I don’t want to use any heat because I smell certain it would ruin the snakeskin. It will probably be one of my winter projects. For now I just set it up for slide
Space man was my first impression of you. I mean, the space man video.
I need to figure out a rhythm to working on multiple guitars at once. It is hard to keep them straight (what goes with what).
I will share that I have been using small-ish, plastic bins (like the medium sized drawers in a small parts cabinet) to keep parts together. That seems to help quite a bit so I don't waste time wondering where I laid something down.
Good luck, Del!
Hey Del, is this the start of your Christmas stock.
Amazing artist sir
Nice!
I'm interested in a three stringer......ready to see them completed..
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