Cooking with Gitty: Steve Larson's 3-string cigar box guitar
Build # 16 – 3 String CBG
I finished this build in late 2015 – before I read Glenn’s article “Improve your cigar box guitars by getting to know the anatomy and orientation of open gear tuners.”
Yep… I installed the tuners upside down. #alwayslearning
Features
- Padilla Reserva Maduro wood Cigar Box
- 3 String Acoustic - medium gauge "Blues Blaster" strings
- .044W, .034W & .026W
- Tuned To Low open G "GDG"
- Black Open-Gear Guitar Tuners/Machine Heads
- 25.0" scale with 23 medium / medium frets
- Black strap buttons
- 27mm piezo pickup
- 1/4-inch Mono Guitar Output Jack
- Guitar Tone Capacitor -0.010uf
Other Components
- Poplar neck and Red Oak Head Stock
- Oak Heel
- Oak and Poplar tail piece
- 15 degree Stratocaster style head stock
- Oak fretboard
- Copper coated nail head fret markers
- Stained with Tung oil and protected with polyurethane
- 2 inch brass tub screen sound-hole cover
- Marble nut and bridge
- Aluminum rivet dome head string ferrules
Steve Larson
Hope Mills, NC
18th Aug 2016
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