Workshop tips and techniques
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Tips and ideas for cigar box guitar makers
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Katsu vs Makita palm router/trimmer. Copy or Contender?
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Making cigar box guitars with thin boxes - PART 2
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Cutting a simple 1 piece cigar box neck using a bandsaw.
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Making cigar box guitars with thin boxes.
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Checking neck blanks for use in cigar box guitars
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How to install a hardtail adjustable bridge on a cigar box guitar.
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In the Chickenbone John workshop today
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How to carve a guitar neck by hand in two and a half minutes.
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On the bench this week - experimenting with rubbed finishes for guitar necks
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Adjustable height bridges for cigar box guitar
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Preparing a belt sander for work.
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Trimming a guitar fretboard to width.
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Basic tools for making cigar box guitars - PART 2
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Basic tools for making cigar box guitars - PART 1
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Cutting circles and rings on the bandsaw - making a reso guitar sound well
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Guitar scale length and fret setting-out
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5 minute fix with Chickenbone John. Steaming and filling dents in wood.
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Cigar Box Guitar- fretboard overhang detail.
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Installing a machine screw or bolt as a nut on cigar box guitars
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Getting the action right on fretless cigar box guitars
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A few thoughts on making cigar box ukuleles.
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Simple bolt on neck for cigar box ukulele
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Removing health warning stickers from cigar boxes
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Cigar box guitar adjustable tilt neck, with a coin of the realm, Queen Elizabeth II
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Making a 6 string cigar box guitar with a standard Fender style neck
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Cigar Box Guitar - where to put the bridge in relation to the string anchor position
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Getting the most out of your Chickenbone John guitar fretting template - shorter scale lengths
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Taking a look at a cigar box guitar with a few neck issues.
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3 string cigarbox guitar headstocks (part 2 - fitting the machine heads)
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3 string cigarbox guitar headstocks (part 1)
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Boring, boring, boring..jack sockets.
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We are changing the way we install guitar necks...or are we?
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3 string resonator cigar box guitar.
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How to stop Tru-Oil going thick and unusable.
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Installing frets using an arbor press
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How to avoid making weak spots in your cigar box guitar neck
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In the workshop with Chickenbone John talking about the planer and thicknesser.
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A simple jig to help with fretting guitar necks
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I broke a guitar neck by accident! So I decided to explain about "crack propagation"
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40
Guitar pickup wire colours and formats
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Decorating plain boxes for cigar box guitars with ChickenboneJohn
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Chickenbone John - new boxes for making cigar box guitars
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The ultimate masking tape and superglue trick...without the superglue.
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Guitar fretboard levelling beam by ChickenboneJohn
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In the workshop with ChickenboneJohn and Anne
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Sorting out the action on a resonator cigar box guitar, with ChickenboneJohn
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My thoughts on the Record Power Bandsaw BS300
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Cigar Box Guitar hardtail bridges, new and improved installation. An end to rattling saddle misery!
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Micro-tilt neck Cigar Box Guitars on the bench
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Cigar Box guitar- neck angle or no neck angle?
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Blackwood Tek Fretboards for luthiers and cigar box guitar makers
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Using the hand plane for cigar box guitar makers
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Adjustable angle neck for cigar box guitars
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Carving a cigar box guitar neck
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The humble Bench Hook...
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How to slot a guitar fretboard
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Handy hints on how to glue-up a cigar box guitar neck
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Adjustable "strat" style bridges for cigar box guitars
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New strings from ChickenboneJohn
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Tech tips from ChickenboneJohn. How to install frets and use a fret rocker.
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How to earth (ground) the strings on a cigar box guitar.
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New fretting tools from ChickenboneJohn
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Converting fretless cigar box guitar to fretted
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