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free new CD by the Jerusalem Mule

https://jerusalemmules.bandcamp.com/album/one-horse-town Here is a new Cd of mostly traditional songs played on a gas can banjo I made. I…

Started by Matthew Borczon

0 Jul 21, 2020

How to Build a Gourd Banjo - Free Plans!

It's Autumn Building Season... and what better time than now to cut into a dried gourd to make a musical instrument! The gourd banjo dates…

Started by Ben "C. B. Gitty" Baker

1 Mar 6, 2018
Reply by Jim Morris

COOL VIDEO: He Saved All His Wood Scraps for a Striped Guitar Neck!

What happens when you spend all day cutting 1/8" thick wood on a CNC laser cutter?  Apparently, C. B. Gitty's Jason Munoz gets inspired to…

Started by Cigar Box Nation Official

5 Jun 12, 2017
Reply by Carl Franklin

Free Plans: Build Your Own Cheese Box Banjo Plans - from 1893! PDF download

We have just discovered another set of historic plans as part of Cigar Box Nation's ongoing research to archive homemade folk instruments.…

Started by Cigar Box Nation Official

0 Mar 28, 2017

How to Play Howlin' Wolf's "Little Red Rooster" on a Three String Cigar Box Guitar

Cigar Box Nation founder, Shane Speal deconstructs the 6-string riff from Little Red Rooster and transposes it on three-string, open G (GD…

Started by Cigar Box Nation

2 Mar 21, 2017
Reply by Blane M Hixon

How to Get the "Fake Snare Drum" Like Johnny Cash on Cigar Box Guitar

Shane Speal shows the simple paper-thru-strings percussion technique that Johnny Cash made popular in songs like "I Walk the Line."  This…

Started by Cigar Box Nation

0 Mar 20, 2017

Lean-Back CBG Rack Design

First off, I'm still a newbie 'round here and not sure if this should be a blog post instead. This is my first time starting a 'discussion'…

Started by Janis Wilson Hughes

166 Jan 23, 2017
Reply by Joe Caruso

It's a thingamyjitar

The last build I did was a proper scale length baritone ukulele with 4 strings..  The neck I have on my table just now seems to be heading…

Started by Fomhorach

21 May 7, 2016
Reply by Bristol Blue

Tambourine Slider.....

I posted a query about using a tambourine for guitar body a while back. Seems it had been done before, but I couldn't resist. I used the he…

Started by Tom T

19 Jul 18, 2015
Reply by Tom T

New to 4 String Banjo! NEED HELP!

Hi there, I have just picked up a 4 string banjo and I am having much trouble finding sheet music, and just overall general information to…

Started by Mason Van Luven

7 Jul 18, 2015
Reply by Bufo Bill

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