I’ve been playing guitar(6 string) for 4-5 years and slide for the last few. I’ve been a woodworker off and on since high school shop class and I’ve always wanted to make a guitar. I’d done lots of internet reseach on guitar building but never got one started. After watching tons of videos of CBGs on youtube, I decided a CBG build was for me.  I started planning by ordering a cheap pick up and harness, tuners, jack plate, and mandolin tail piece off of Ebay. The shipping estimate said they would be here between Dec. 28th and Jan 3rd. Well they showed up early, and by luck I actually finished all my Christmas projects early so I decide no better time than to jump in and make my own present.  I asked my uncle who smokes cigars if he had any boxes sitting around but no luck so I decided to not waste any time and decided to just make the box too. All the wood came from the scrap bin.  The box sides and fret board are figured ribbon stripe mahogany, top and back are luan, neck and bridge oak, and internal blocking is aspen. I had a few failed neck attemps couldn’t figure out how to get the headstock angle until I did some reading here. So on the third or fourth attempt I had the neck figured out. For the finger board I resawed some of the mahogany to make a nice bookmatched piec that was wide enough.  After two days of tinkering I strung it with some D’Addario flat wounds I had in my box of guitar stuff and gave a test. I found the origional 5/16th bolt I chose for a nut made the action too high so I switched it for a 1/4-20 machine screw. It has no finish and is fretless for now but I plan to order some fret wire and do that next, then probably use some tung oil/wiping varnish to make that figure pop. I’ll also probably try and find some box corners and something for the sound hole to add some bling. To sum it up as of right now I have $30 in it for the stuff off of Ebay and about 20 hours of tinkering. Not to mention hours of smiles showing it off plinking away. The over all The inside The figure of the neck   Hopefully the pics are ok sizewise, if not let me know what I can do to fix them. I tried to figure out how to put the video of how it sounds w/ my poor playing but couldn’t get it to work so you can see it here.   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhaSuHwMI4w&list=UUkjwp_AXsozPyuZ0vjpoz_Q&index=1&feature=plcp Sorry for being wordy but this has struck a fire and I’m eager to share. Thanks for reading

See the rest here:New Guy intro and my first build
New Guy intro and my first build