I keep seeing references to cigar boxes being used for purses, but I don't recall ever seeing or hearing of anyone actually having one.
Has anyone ever seen someone carrying a cigar box purse?
Read more…Ok, I do believe I'm hooked on this CBG thang!!! :) Very easy to get addicted to fun stuff!
I discovered CBG's 4 months ago, and now have 5 of them.
This is my 3rd build. I built this one on the 26th which would have been my dads 78th birthday. I call
Jim and I are trying to go this year and show off our work. We have built Boxes for Nick Catanse from BLS and working on one for Zakk Wylde, Hank 3, Gus G.
We need help though getting there. If you can help us I would appreciate it! And if your at
Read more…CBG - UK Radio .....
A proposed new Internet online radio station, Slowpaw Steve ,Bemuzic and Bug are looking for royalty free music to use to help make an internet radio show for a new online CBG UK Station!
This is open to all countries but th
Read more…Hello all! Forgive me if I'm posting in the wrong place. Quite a site and full of info ... need to lean my way around. LOL I'm the Owner, Proprietor, and Luthier at Excelsior Cigar Box Guitars. I'm also the nephew of Harry B. DeArmond of DeArmond pic
Read more…i just found your forum and i love it! ive just become aware of cigar box guitars you may ask where ive been well i a thing called life happen and i let myself get to serious now i semi retired i needed something to do i find the subject very inte
Read more…Maybe this should be a GROUP, but...after three years and two false starts trying to finish my CD with my producer friend, it's become clear to me that I won't be able to rely upon him after all. So...I'm afraid I'll have to do it myself if it's ever
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The song in this You Tube, I wrote about Moonshining, an activity I am also interested in :)
This one I play on 4 string Cigarbox. Sorry for the poor quality of the recording, as it is recorded with cheap equipment, but hope you enjoy this
Read more…So I have to join Facebook to enter Shane Speal's contest, YUK! Not going to happen. Why exclude me? I love CBG and Shane's work and lessons that he freely gives, but forcing me to join that social network to be part of the movement and enter the c
Read more…I was looking through a workshop edition of Wood magazine the other day, studying the layouts of a dozen and a half shops of all shapes and sizes when I realized that people kept referring to there shops as small. 440sqft, 600sqft, all "small shops."
Read more…Hi y'all, I'm on a 4 day vist to the Jackson Mississippi area and I am determined to buy a banjo while I'm here. Does anyone know of the best place for me to go where I'll definately find a good selection of new and used banjos? Gonna vist some blu
Read more…After reading Ben's comments about Nervana& Sir Paul, I thought I'd bring to light another video with a CBG in use. The other evening my wife was flipping thru the channels and stopped on CMT which was showing a video (by Zac Brown Band) titled "Good
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These things are soo cool and easy to make, and take your playing to a entirely new dimension!!!
Read more…So i was just thinking on the idea of sandwiching a piezo disc in something. Wood, wood and metal, all metal whatever.
Then what if one took that (and maybe even have two of these) and attach those to the bottom of a boot. And have a wire harness run
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Here is my first Cigar Box Amp that I have built. I made it following the ruby amp bassman mod, plus I added a LED, and a stereo input jack to act as an on/off switch.
Read more…Alvin Lee died.He was68.Founder of the band Ten Years After.He was one of the best guitar players around highly underated in my opion.Rocked Woodstock in 69 with an 11 min. version of I'm Goin Home.For those who have not heard him play check him out
Read more…little johnny is sitting outside a candy store,hands full of all sorts of treats,jamming them into his mouth as quick as he can,old guy walks up and says ,son you know that stuff will rot your teeth,give you acne and make you fat?johnny replies,my gr
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