Can you make a guitar out of a non-wooden cigar box?
Does it make a difference in the tone?
How can you tell these boxes apart?
We posed these questions to Ben, Glenn and Nick up at C. B. Gitty and the filmed this great live video. You'll hear two
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Shane Speal and his bandmate, Ronn Benway just did some jamming in the woodshop. Hear some great songs and see the full washboard rig that Benway uses. Also get a glimpse at Speal's latest 4-string resonator cigar box guitar. Lots of great stuf
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Product: C. B. Gitty Pre-Wired 4-String Single Coil Pickup. $15.99
Overview: For $16, this sucker has a mean growl and leaves no guesswork in the wiring.
***** (5 Stars)
I bought a few of these single coils from C. B. Gitty not ju
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This article is an excerpt from Shane Speal's book, Making Poor Man's Guitars. Get your autographed copy at stubbyslide.com***Got a festival? Please send information and web links to sspeal@cbgitty.com***
May 14 (2pm) - "Meet Up On Mean St" cigar box guitar gathering
Written by Cigar Box Nation member, AL. Originally posted to blogs.originally
A quick making of: The Neck Pickup,
After building a new neck and glueing the fretboard I had to cut of some inches and thought about using the scrap piece as a neck picku
Read more…It's one of the greatest riffs in rock n' roll... and Nigel McTrustry shows you how to play it on a slide 3-string cigar box guitar.
Tuning: Open D (D,A,d)
A note about the chorus: AAA(7th Fret) C (10th Fret) G (5th Fret) repeat etc "I've been wai
Read more…C. B. Gitty Records artist, "One Hand Dan" Russell has just released three new lesson videos featuring some of the deepest blues this side of Mississippi.
NORTH MISSISSIPPI ALLSTARS' "MISSISSIPPI BOLL WEEVIL"
HOW TO PLAY JUNIOR KIMBROUGH'S "NOBO
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UPDATE!
UPDATE!
After posting this article several days ago, we got an email from somebody who has seen SSS's guitar strings changed...and he was able to clarify all of the string gauges needed. We've fixed the article accordingly.
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Read more…This video has been making the rounds of social media for a while and seems to be gaining momentum again. Zak Kerrison, lead guitarist for the band Throwaway, performs his heavy metal grinder, "No Rules" on cigar box guitar.
He says, "my Dad, who m
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These guitars pictured above were just a few of the 75 guitars I built just for the 2015 festival season. This batch of six served as a higher-end line to round out my selection. They were nearly identical to each other...same box, same lipstick t
Read more…Blend Indian folk melodies with slide guitar blues, add a sprinkle of gospel and some compelling grooves and you’ll get Harry Manx’s unique “mysticssippi” flavour.
For years, Manx has included a cigar box guitar in his arsenal of Hindustani slide gui
Read more…Cigar Box Nation member, King Rubbishhas taken the classic Stones song, "Time is On My Side" and made a 3-string TAB version! Download the PDF and start playing..
Thank you, King Rubbish!!!
Let's get weird today and fiddle with the tuners on our cigar box guitars!
I've created many lessons for Open G tunings which are great for blues and folk music, but if you really want to push the boundaries in your playing, try these strange tuning
Read more…Reduced feedback. Deeper bass response. And no more "quack!"
We were complaining about all the problems with piezo pickups when the idea for this standalone pre-amp came to me. It's deceptively simple... a $17 acoustic guitar pre-amp with a hacked
Read more…Give your cigar box guitars a clean look with simple wire mesh screens used for windows.
Tools needed:
EXTRA TIP: Using Q-tips, apply linseed oil to the cu
Read more…Elmar Zeilhofer is one of the most radical inventors of the Cigar Box Guitar Movement. When challenged to create a thin pickup that can be installed on a cigar box guitar without routing, he re-engineered the humbucking pickup, winding the coils sid
Read more…I like to build instruments that will cover the full sonic spectrum. If I'm looking for something that will cover the upper end, a simple PICCOLO cigar box guitar is the perfect solution.
Florida one man powerhouse, Ben Prestage has a completely unique style, infusing chicken picking with hyperspeed slide guitar.
In this video, he performs with his trusty double-neck Lowebow, a cigar box guitar that features one bass string and three
Read more…This has to be one of the coolest videos on the internet! Hailing from the Kingdom of Lesotho in Africa, Sotho Sounds is a group of funky shepherds who play their own instruments. (Yes, they have an album. Yes, you can buy it here!)
In this vide
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