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CBG # 41 Mahogany neck and fretboard, walnut position markers, walnut bridge, bone nut, 20 frets, 25” scale, tuned GDG #cigarboxguitar #cigarbox #cbg #mississippi #diy #woodworking #guitar #homemade #music #blues #mahogany #cigars
# 36 Red oak neck, mahogany fretboard with walnut position markers, bone nut, oak bridge, 4 string, Arkansas tenor tuning EADG, 25.5" scale length #cigarboxguitar #cbg #cigar #cigarbox #guitar #blues #homemade #diy #music #macanudo #mississippi
# 34 Oak neck, walnut fretboard w/maple position markers, walnut nut, walnut and padauk bridge, 3 stringer (GDg), 20 frets, 22.5" scale This one is a donation for a silent auction for PALS Rescue Inc., a no-kill animal shelter in McComb, MS. #cigarboxguitars #cigarboxnation #cigarboxguitar #music #guitar #cigar #diy #handmade #blues #mississippi #deltablues #hillcountryblues #pals #animalshelter
CBG # 33 Oak neck, padauk fretboard, bone nut and rod piezo bridge, 3 string - GDg, 20 frets #cbg #cigarboxguitars #cigarboxguitar #music #diy #deltablues #handmade #handmademusic #muscadine #magnolia #3220 #laaromadecuba
CBG # 31 Oak neck with bubinga accents, bubinga fretboard with maple position markers, 3 string(GDG), 25.5 inch scale, bone nut, ebony bridge with buffalo horn saddle #cbg #cigarboxguitar #guitar #mississippi #deltablues #handmade #diy #guitar #music
CBG #28 - 4 string (GDBG), 25" scale, oak neck, zebrawood fretboard, 20 frets, hand carved bone nut, threaded rod bridge, Cuban Punch cigar box with F hole style sound holes #3220guitars #cbg #cigarboxguitars #handmade #deltablues #mississippi #diy #guitar #music #blues (at Decatur, Mississippi)
I was sitting around waiting on paint to dry on a guitar neck and decided to experiment with some scrap pieces I had lying around. Three or so hours later, I've got a one string diddley bow lap steel. Sounds pretty cool. Tuned to G. I found the 12th 'fret' and marked it with a cigar band. I'll have to play it a little to find the other frets!
Project complete. This makes numbers 21 and 22. Like I said in the beginning, these are for two good friends of mine. The one on the left is an oak neck with mahogany fretboard with walnut position markers. The one on the right is an oak neck with rosewood fretboard with cherry position markers. Both have hand carved bone nuts and saddles. Both have rod piezos under the handmade bridges. Really fun builds. I took a little longer than usual making them, but, still had a good time working on them!
Wired up and clamped down! I forgot to take progress photos, but we are nearing the finish line. The piezos are wired up and in place. The bridges will float so intonation adjustments can be made. The frets are dressed and the fretboards are glued down. I'll keep the clamped over night and string 'em up tomorrow.
I've fallen behind on my updates as of late. I did learn how to make rod piezo bridges though. I went a little crazy ordering wood (first picture), but at least I'm stocked up for awhile. The first bridge is zebrawood with wenge spacers and a bone saddle. The bottom one is...well, I'm not sure what it is...with padauk spacers and a bone saddle. Thanks to Randy Bretz of Mojobone Works for all the guidance!
7 Recipes I Must Try From “12 Bones Smokehouse: A Mountain BBQ Cookbook”
12 Bones Smokehouse: A Mountain BBQ Cookbook is one of the best barbecue books of the year.
Earlier this year, I reviewed the much heralded Franklin Barbecue: A Meat Smoking Manifesto by the barbecue world’s biggest celebrity, Aaron Franklin. I appreciated his painstaking level of detail of how to construct a smoker and the science of smoking. While Franklin’s glimpse into his secret world of barbecue wizardry was great for serious smokers and barbecue nerds, it isn’t the barbecue book for everyone. If you want a lesson on the importance of airflow in a smoker, go to Franklin’s book. If you want to try a new barbecue-ish recipe at home, open 12 Bones’ cookbook. From novice to professional, 12 Bones Smokehouse: A Mountain BBQ Cookbook by Bryan King, Angela King and Mackensy Lunsford (Voyageur Press) has something for everyone.
From traditional barbecue favorites like Brown Sugar Baby Back Ribs to untraditional offerings like Pickled Okra Salad, 12 Bones covers a lot of tasty turf with over 100 recipes.
The novice smoker should start with the basic, straightforward recipes for pork butt and ribs. As an intermediate level smoker, I’m digging into recipes of items that pair well with traditional barbecue dishes or provide a nice change of pace from the regular barbecue favorites.
Here are the 7 items I can’t wait to try from 12 Bones Smokehouse’s Mountain BBQ Cookbook:
1. Barbecue Scotch Eggs – Brisket and rub in the breading? I’ll bite.
2. Smoked Shrimp Cakes – The cookbook first provides directions for a simple rubbed and smoked shrimp that works as an appetizer or on a salad. The recipe for Smoky Spiced Shrimp and Grits is tempting, but I want to try the Smoked Shrimp Cakes first. Instead of heavy, greasy cakes, I expect these to be relatively light, but bursting in flavor.
3. Pumpkin Barbecue Sauce – I’m tired of pumpkin-spiced everything and Fall only just arrived, but I can’t wait to try this barbecue sauce. Made with canned pumpkin, cinnamon and coriander along with a traditional barbecue sauce, I’ll pair it with a smoked pork loin, grilled chicken or take their recommendation of smoked duck.
4. Smoky Tomato Basil Soup – I’m obsessed with fresh basil, but my Italian and barbecue cooking rarely meet. This recipe might bring the two together as pork stock and a dash of chicken rub are two ingredients you will not typically see in a tomato basil soup.
5. Watermelon Rind Pickles – Add vinegar, spices and herbs to transform something inedible into something edible.
6. Damn Good Corn Pudding – 12 Bones sells a ton of it at the restaurant, so I want to give their recipe a shot at home.
7. Ginger Stout Snaps – Ginger snaps might be my favorite cookie and I love stout beer. How have I gone this long without Ginger Stout Snaps in my life?
A Mountain BBQ Cookbook is available here. Don’t forget to pick up The 100 Best Barbecue Restaurants in America!
Photos courtesy of 12 Bones.
Fretting - I put a coat of Minwax Natural Wood Stain on the fretboards to bring out the grain. Then I hammered in the frets and cut them off with a fret cutter from stewmac. I went with nickel frets on the rosewood and gold on the mahogany.
Position markers - I added the position markers and forgot to take pictures. Basically, I drilled 1/4" holes in the same spots as on traditional guitar (3rd, 5th, 7th, 9th, 12th, etc.). Using a lite hammer, in this case my fretting hammer, I tapped a 1/4" dowel into each 1/4" hole. Then used a flush cut saw to cut the dowel off. After I was done, I sanded the board down until everything was flush. The board in the picture is rosewood and I used a cherry dowel for the position markers. The other board is mahogany with walnut markers. There are also markers on the side of the fretboard in the same spots. I used the same process for that, but used a 1/8" poplar dowel.
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Fret slotting- this took me a while to get the hang of doing. It used to be a pain, but now I almost enjoy it! I start with the wood I want to use for a fretboard. In this case, I have a piece of mahogany. Now I used to calculate the distance between frets on my computer and print out a template. Then I would trace the fret lines on the fretboard and hope for the best when I sawed the slots. Thankfully, I found and idea online (can’t remember exactly where) for a fret slotting jig (middle pic) and built one. It makes things simple. I bought a preslotted fretboard from cbgitty.com. I tape the board I want to slot to the preslotted board back to back and feed the boards through the jig. There is a small cut in the jig where I stuck a guitar pick. The pick sticks up and catches in the slot of the preslotted board. This tells me where to saw my fret slots. The jig works like a miter box as well and keeps my saw in line. Anyway, long story short, the cbgs are starting to look more like guitars now!
I use a bone blank from cbgitty to make nuts. This is the piece on the neck that cause the strings to ‘break’ and create tension. To slot the nuts, I use a file for cleaning welding iron tips. You can buy expensive files, but I feel if you get too fancy, you lose what cbgs are all about! Anyway, I use the same template I used to map out the spots to drill for the tuners to sketch out the string spacing with a pencil. After that, I filed out the string slots and superglued the nuts on the necks.
Added the tuners. Went with gold on one and chrome on the other. I always drill pilot holes before screwing down the tuners. The gears on the tuners have to point down the neck towards the body of the guitar.
