Performances, How to Play, Lessons, Concerts (2214)
Protecting a Paper covered CG
I found this great "Black Magic" CB but it's paper covered.. anyway to protect the paper from coming off? Lacquer the whole thing?
Read more…Is there a slide chord chart for a fretless?
I know, I know...sounds like a hard one to ask....I have my new LPG built and no frets....set up for slide playing....but I am not sure where I can hit certian chords at on the neck. I can add some fret markers to the top of the neck....but I won'
Read more…Promoting CBGs, sharing the love
I've been very busy building and pushing cigar box guitars over the past months. Doing my part to spread the word and history of these fantastic instruments and their builders. I decided on giving my instruments to selected and well connected perfo
Read more…Which Wood Works Best
I am planning on building a cigar box guitar and want it to not only sound and play very nicely, but also to look very fetching in the process. What types of wood do you reccommend for good strength, durability, and looks as well.
Read more…Diagram Please..piezo+humbucker
Anyone have a diagrahm for piezo+humbucker and a 3 way switch?
Read more…For those who asked what the new build sounds like.
I posted a short clip on my profile page. http://www.cigarboxnation.com/profile/folkcafe
Excuse the poor playing. I split my middle finger (on the sharp edge of some broken tile) last week and it isn't quite healed. The recording is strait into my c
Bass to 4 string idea
Just wondered if this might work... get a 1/2 size Hand bass, 25 in scale... for a 4 string..change pups, shove it in a cigar box, and call it a day.... there you have a Rt Hand 4 string CGB
Read more…CBN Community Video Project (100 Builds) I need about 70 more photos
NOTE: Please read below and send the required material. Only one photo and contact information (CBN name, email, etc) I am receiving multiple photos and no information. I greatly appreciate your help in this project, but please help make this easier
Read more…Good Recording....
I recently obtained (OK, downloaded) an album called "Blues Masters Vol. 18, Slide guitar classics."
Some gems on this one, Johnny Winter doing "Dallas", Son House doing "Death Letter" Muddy Waters, Elmore James...
One cut stood out, a version of
Sound the same?
Iv been listening to this song on you tube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFGgbT_VasI
What string tuning is uses do you think and would it sound a million miles away in another tuning?
IM a newbie guitar player and want to learn a riff....
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B-L-U-S-E - Son House at Newport Folk Festival (Festival! 1967)
The true meaning of Blues~B-L-U-S-E
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switch
Hi all just wondering is it possible to put a switch between a pickup and a saddle mounted preamp so that it switches between so you can use one at a time :)
Read more…new songs
So what are some new songs you folks are learning at the moment? Me, lately I've been working on some Pogues songs, Irish folk that leans toward rock (or the other way around?). It seems to fall very naturally into the cigar box realm. I've got "I
Read more…Harmonica key quistion
If my cbg is tuned to the key of A what key of harp should I play cross harp in? C harmonica? D harmonica? I am thinking it is C....but I could be wrong.
Read more…Online drum machine
Here's a cool online drum machine. I just found it so i'm not sure how well it works, but it has an export as wav button, so maybe it could be used with audacity to demo a song. enjoy.
http://www.drumbot.com/projects/drumbot/index.html
hey Shane...or any one from original forum. ?question?
Anyone remember a post about some guy who was teaching some sort of zen guitar playing? Just wondering on the name and whether someone tried it.
Read more…What's Your Favorite Tom Waits song
Here's one that is so not like any Tom Waits I've ever seen... He's playing piano, singing a torch song....
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About those comments
Am I the only person having trouble leaving a comment on someones page or answering back to someone when a comment is made on my page or about a picture? I answer and click the add comment button but nothing ever seems to happen. I hate to think that
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