Hi everyone i am building an Anzac biscuit for someone and i have fitted a fishman preamp a cbgitty humbucker pickup and a psycho knob along with volume and tone 500KOhm pots
I have changed out the stereo jack that comes with the preamp to a mono jack
Read more…Hi, hope your well. I installed a coil pickup in my cbg and while installations, I broke the black wire on the volume knob, I soldered it to the second and third post while I soldered the ground to the back of the pod, all I get is humming thru the a
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Here is a link to a short lofi collection of spirituals. You can just put 0.00 in the price box and have it for free!!!
Read more…I have had masking tape on a blue Perez Camillo box for a long time. What is the best product to remove the tape edge marks and finger prints?
Read more…Due to health issues I am having to stop building CBG's. Was wondering if there is amyone in the Stuart Fl. aria who would be interested in my inventory of tools and parts. Contact here or via email at soundthings34@gmail.com
Thanks
JimO
Read more…CBGitty.com & Cigar Box Nation are looking for the WILDEST, LOUDEST & MOST DIABOLICAL electric cigar box guitar ever built. The more pickups, the more internal effects, the better! We’re looking for insane hot rods that could blow a Marshall stack.
Read more…Hey Big Ben here
so planning on making a bass canjo,1 or 2 strings.
so I got bass tuners, bass string, a big peanut can, and c.b.gittey canjo neck.
so on you tube video from c.b gittey canjo essential they showed on there bass canjo had a brace in the
Read more…Overheard, the hushed voice of my wife, "Oooo, porn!"
Of course I had to investigate... She was standing with a Garrett Wade catalog, looking at the clamps...
God, I love my wife!
I made my first CBG and enjoy it a lot. Cherry scarfed neck, cedar Oliva box, piezo and a sweet $15 amp from Goodwill.
Now I'm on a quest for the elusive good-sounding acoustic. I've read "use a bigger box" whenever the concept is mentioned. So noted,
Read more…Here's a nicely-done article about building a solidbody electric guitar from plywood. Total build: body, neck, fingerboard, everything. I'd call this a "found-material project", related to cigar box instruments, but I think his neck construction meth
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Hello All,
I have only built about 10 CBG's and with each of those the necks were shaped with hand tools. A 1x2 for the neck with a 1x2 as a back strap. Making the notch in the box was easy enough as everything was square.
Today I tried shaping a nec
Read more…Hello, folks, I already used up what little search skill I have, and thought it might make a decent discussion for those interested. How do you store your cigar boxes for long term?
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3 string 25" scale
3 string .017, .013. .010
Poplar neck
Red Oak fretboard
Piezo pickup
Stallone Cowboy Series box
Two matching 3 string twin girls CGB's. The only difference is the Pink vs Purple accents.
Three strings .017, .013, and .010
Poplar neck
Fretted red oak fretboard
rare oak Head stock with Shane Speal tuners
Piezo pickup
West Tampa box
Read more…Just finished this for a 10 year old that is into sports for his birthday.
23" scale Chugger
nail frets
Shane Speal .042, .032 strings
Black Maduro box
I recently saw a picture of a pick up, mounted under the top of the guitar with screws going down to the magnets on a pick up anybody seen anything like this
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