WORKSPACE, SUPPLIES AND TOOLS
NECK
NECK, EYE BOLT TUNER INSTALLATION AND BODY BLOCK
MOUNTING THE NECK AND SOUND HOLES
FRET CALCULATION AND FRET MARKERS
STRINGING IT UP, STRINGS AND EYE BOLT TUNERS
TUNE IT UP AN PLAY!
PLAYING THE CIGAR BOX GUITAR : COLLECTIVE SOUL - "SHINE"
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I got a Q... You said you sell em at your Gigs.... Mind if I ask what you get for a 1 Hr guitar?
**MZ**
@mz-handyman
Tthere's very little interest in actually buying one of my guitars. most people seem more interested in watching me play it than buy one.
Here's an idea... Have a Sharpie in your pocket or on your t-shirt collar and anounce at the beginning of the show that you will sell the "Autographed" guitars you play with each song and sign/date it and put the name of the song you played under the signature. Or at the end of the song.... Pull out the marker sign/date the guitar and write the song name on it while saying "this guitar is available for purchase at our memorabelia/fan table", while handing it to someone off stage and them handing you a clean one for the next song.... It's a thought and may bring more value to the purchase. Especially to someone who has a special interest in a song... Heck, do song requests.
**MZ**
Crow said:@mz-handyman
Tthere's very little interest in actually buying one of my guitars. most people seem more interested in watching me play it than buy one.
Crowded workspace. This is the living room of my tiny studio apartment, aka my work bench. I set up on the coffee table. The clear tote with the blue lid has all my beer brewing and wine making gadgets in it (sans my kettles and fermentation buckets and carboys). Got the neck cut; now to get the holes drilled. Starting to come together. Lighting isn't great in our apartment, so this is the best I can do right now. At least in person, it's lookin' mighty handsome. Note the Uncle Crow style sound holes. The box was a really cheap cedar one. I was looking to do this as inexpensively as possible, so I got a lower end one. Also note the middle string guide. I accidentally got the center hole just a little too far to the right, so I moved it up an eighth of an inch. I don't really care how that looks, as long as it plays. And here's me bringing down the beauty of the instrument by the presence of myself in the picture. The smile on my face is more due to a toilet humor laden exchange between me and my wife (the photographer). However, it's representative of the pride I feel in having produced the instrument. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Well, after three additional trips to the hardware store (substitutions, as they had "this" not "that" which meant "those" I bought earlier wouldn't fit "these", and again), I finally got it done. Actual labor on the guitar, itself, I would say about an hour and a half, mostly because I've never done it before. I had some issues with stringing it, and I was working on a coffee table in my 440 sq ft studio that I and my brewing equipment share with my wife and all her crafting and sewing projects. I'd further point out that, not only is it not that hard or too time consuming, but if I can do it in my studio apartment, anyone else can, too. If you don't count the expenditure for tools, I only spent about $15 on this. I even have some left over hardware to use on the next one. It should only cost me an additional $10, which would average the cost out to about $12.50 per guitar. It sounds pleasant. If I could get the middle string by ear, I'd be fiddlin' around with it tonight, but that'll have to wait. Maybe I can find a website that plays individual notes so I can tune by ear until I can get a digital tuner. I had been procrastinating building a CBG for about three months now. I felt that a lot of intricate work would be necessary to make my time investment "feel" worth it. However, watching your short video series convinced me that such a spartan instrument was easily within my grasp, sounded nice and was worth the small investment of money and effort it would take. I'm so glad I did. Now, I just need to make a wine bottle neck slide and look up lessons on Youtube, or elsewhere. Thanks for the inspiration and the walkthrough. I probably would've never gotten around to this if it weren't for your video tutorial.
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