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• Great timing
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  Excellent timing on this article. I built a CBG based off Makes earlier article back in 2007 and ended up doing a number of upgrades/modifications to it. It finally ended up with actual tuners, real strings, and frets made out of cut up cotter pins. But it also wound up with a 30" scale length and a neck that would bend before the strings had enough tension to really come up to tune.
  
  So I started planning on a building a new and improved version from scratch. Just as the parts started to come together and my ideas were about ready to start being executed I got the e-mail announcing this issue of Make and the updated CBG article.
  
  I'll admit the article didn't really help me much this time, but it was still nice timing for it to come out right as I was about to start. And the link to fretfind was VERY helpful sine I hadn't found a better fret calculator through my own means.
  
  Last night I finally got my second CBG tuned up and it's sounding great (even if my playing still isn't!) It's also looking great and a BIG step up from my first attempt:
  
  Photos of my second CBG

  Posted by jhitesma on January 28, 2010 at 11:04:05 Pacific Time

• Cigar Box Mandolin
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  I was inspired by your article to convert one of my wife'e cigar boxes into a small mandolin (13" scale length). I used a neck I had damaged during another project. See the results here:
  http://mirthwood.blogspot.com/2010/01/cigar-box-mandolin_30.html
  
  
  I also provide an alternative scale calculator with some useful features on my blog. Thanks again Make.

  Posted by Mirthwood on January 31, 2010 at 12:23:00 Pacific Time

• Bad advice
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  I thought it very interesting that you got all three tuners on upside down. A look at ANY guitar would show you the difference !! It will work sort of upside down but it will be hard to keep in tune and harder to achieve correct tuning - Flipped over to correct the shaft the string is through will be tensioned into the tuner knob shaft and gear and tend to tighten this simple mechanism up which allows it to do its job correctly. I would like to see a correction posted to prevent folks from following your instructions into a fundamental error. If you would like to see a blog on the correct way to do this go to cigarboxnation.com and search for my name Bill Ludeman and or Tuners right side up blog. Its a photo essay detailing the difference.

  Posted by crackerswamp on April 01, 2010 at 16:44:35 Pacific Time