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Stardate: 20201101.1429 | |
Location: Picnic bench @ park | |
Input Device: Gemini PDA | |
Mood: Good, blood is flowing from brisk walk. | |
Audio: da blues by Robert Johnson, birds, airplane, children playing. | |
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I was able to finish the cigar box guitar (CBG) kit that I have been | |
putting together over thie past month or so. I was inspired to give | |
the kit a try after hearing about it on the Dubious Goals Committee | |
Show [1] on aNONradio[2]. Chairman tob has talked about it on | |
previous shows and has played them a few times. The CBGs he played | |
had interesting sounds coming out of them. He recommended that I | |
check out cbgitty.com, which I did. Assembly seemed do-able with my | |
basic jr. high woodshop skills. | |
The kit I picked up was the basic $35US woodworker's kit. All I had | |
to supply was the neck and the tools required for assembly. I | |
started on the kit before I left for Cleveland, but was unable to | |
finish it before I left. This past weekend was the first time I had | |
a chance to continue working on it and finish it. | |
I mostly used hand tools to put the CBG together. In general, I | |
prefer hand tools. Power tools scare me. Even though I know how to | |
use them, I still would prefer the hand tools. Slow and careful works | |
for me. The only power tools I used for the CBG was a rotary tool | |
and my table saw. I am not a big fan of using my table saw because it | |
is so loud and dangerous and makes a mess with all of the saw dust. | |
The less than one minute rip job I needed to do for the guitar neck | |
took about 30 minute of prep work, including checking the saw for | |
issues, installing all the necessary safety guards and psyching myself | |
up to use the tool. I even have an external Harbor Freight safety | |
foot switch attached to the table saw. I could have used a hand saw, | |
but figured that it was about time to use the table saw again since it | |
has been quite some time since I used it and I still have not gotten | |
over my table saw anxiety. | |
Putting the kit together was fun and got me back in touch with my | |
woodworking skills. Most of the woodworking stuff I do these days are | |
just basic repairs at home and stuff that I wouldn't categorize as | |
woodworking. The last fun wood project I finished was probably the | |
ball in a box I had whittled. I still have an old radio cabinet | |
refinishing project that is still a work in progress and that I need | |
to get back to as well. | |
Overall, the kit came out ok. I had some issues that were not critical | |
and was able to reconcile. It sounds louder than I thought it would, | |
but is still fairly quiet. Fun instrument to noodle around with. Now | |
I gotta learn some tunage! | |
Here are some pics (sorry, no table saw pics): | |
CBGitty parts. | |
Marking up the neck. | |
Notch for tuner cutout. | |
Cutting tuner cutout. | |
Tuner cutout. | |
Cleaning up tuner cutout. | |
Cutting neck to fit box lid. | |
Neck inside box. | |
Needed a shim to snuggly fit the neck in the box. | |
Tuner holes. | |
Sound holes with grommets. | |
Tuners installed with pre-drilled hole that went through for one of them. | |
Finished. | |
[1] https://anonradio.net/dubious-goals-committee/ | |
[2] https://anonradio.net/ | |
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