So, I'm about to start installing the "guts" from the Strat knockoff I bought into my cigar-box 6-string.
I notice that the plastic pickup-holding plate on the Strat has the interior lined with what appears to be aluminum foil.
I doubt this forms any
One of the last songs I made a video of was "My Last Ride". That is the sound I am looking for. I remember that day I did not have any feed back issues with my rig or anything. Now, all of the sudden I can't even sit down behind the r
Read more…Ok you want to build a new 2 string box guitar. Why? And what 2 strings would you use and why. Also how would you tune them.
Ok I have family in the Philippines and I'm going to try to get them interested in building their own guitars. 1,2,3,4 string
Read more…A 4-string guitar can very easily be played on practically any song in chords tuned the same as the bottom 4 strings on a regular 6-string. DGBE
This is the same as a baritone ukulele.
Nice easy 4-string guitar chord chart. Ignore the words baritone an
OK so I got real tired of this fret thing... can't do them and don't have the time so I wanted something I could do in 1 hour. The tops are ruff and maybe there are some others out there but here it is..
I just spent an hour with "customer service" trying to transfer my old cell # to a new phone--NIGHTMARE! I needed to be with people who actually know what's going on....
Anyway, I built a 4 string tenor-style quitar, but I didn't like the high-string
Lukas Nelson is a friend of Smokehouse Guitars. My wife an I were out to see him and his band maybe a month and a half ago. A reporter saw my wife and I being all buddy-buddy with him and the promoters who put on the show so she pounced on us for a
Read more…Is there anyone in here from the Hudson NY/ Pittsfield MA areas? Or am I the lonely CBGer around my area?
OK nubie here, I have collected a swack of tunings for a 3 string CBG.
I have built a small scale 3 string CBG, with a 13 inch scale I want to put strings in it but do not understand the "notation" when somebody posts a tuning like AEa or GDg what d
Read more…Hey guys here is a question for ya, just got my first CGB its a 4 string tuned GDgD, i am using a marshall practice amp and want to know how to get that delta blues sound? like the way member daddy stove pipe plays, i just cant seem to get that gritt
Read more…I read this article and although not cigar box related, though it was kinda nice and very interesting. I hope it's appropriate..
Read more…hey guys, I just posted the first 2 demo tracks of my band on my profile. feel free to come on over and have a listen.
When you hear a lot of new music, its so exciting to find an album which turns you upside down, inside out and if your driving a car at the time, having to be very careful about speed and that oncoming lamppost. Four albums in, this American trio's r
Read more…This was a tribute to Son House who lived in Rochester, NY half his life....I taped a few videos...here is Rory Block, Joe Beard and his son Chris Beard..
Does anyone have a Las Cabrillas Balboa box they would be willing to part with. I have a couple of nice boxes that I'd be willing to trade for one or buy outright. I've got a nice big white Torano Virtuoso or a Casa Magna that I'd be willing to trade
Read more…This is a pretty cool chord / scale generator. You can specify the tuning and number of strings, and it
includes all of the normal modes and scales, including some exotic ones. It comes out like this:
http://www.studybass.com/tools/chord-scale-note-
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