I made a video yesterday covering a Chuck Berry song. Posted it here and also on YouTube. Went to my YouTube channel today and the video has been deleted. I didn't get any notification as to why it was deleted, but I assume it was due to copyright
Read more…Here's an old tune by Spike Jones. About a minute into the song, watch what the guy and the end of the table is playing... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgn_aNCBXKw
Read more…Is there something new I need to do in order to post pictures? I cant get them to load with an error.
Read more…Hey guys, I'm only slightly better at woodworking (and that's lucky guesses half the time) as I am at using blog sites. Can you tell me if there's anybway to reply directly to comments or do we just add them to the general comments section? Had a cou
Read more…Hello all, I am brand new to cigar box guitars and found the aesthetics of this one to my liking, but I don't know anything else about it. Does it look constructed well? Is the design geared toward one type of music over another? Hoping someone knowl
Read more…I usually make my necks without any fret locators at all. I mark out the 3-5-7- & 12 on the edge of the neck and use a slide. My question is can I just burn on the fret locations on the neck and not use actual fret wire. Will it play as if it did h
Read more…Ok, I have got together the parts I want to use, I already have the tools mostly, just one question? I would like to use a nice piece of cherry that I had for another project, but it is to thin, 1/2". Would 2 pieces 1/2"x11/2"x37" glued and clamped m
Read more…Just built another 4 String and thought for the first time I would tune it D G B E ie the top four strings of a 6 string. Nearly there and Bang went the 3 rd string. The others felt a bit tight. si I Changed them from Medium Gauge to Light Gauge. Tu
Read more…Hi everyone! I am thinking of building guitar in Wesseh style. While I can figure out most of things I don't yet know the fret placement. It looks a bit different in two videos: https://youtu.be/1dgsTWMV_iA and https://youtu.be/Mqbbv4rChNI Shane made
Read more…Is there somewhere to find more 4 string tablature in open G? I see some here, but mostly for 3 string. In hindsight, wish I had gotten a 3 string for the abundance of tablature out there. Can I use 3 string tabs to play 4 string? Is there a way
Read more…My sister in law used to make purses out of cigar boxes. She gave me a box(s) where she had glued identical boxes back to back. They are nice boxes and I was thinking about opening up part of the joined bottoms and making a double deep CBG. Any reaso
Read more…I have another question that I hope you can help me with? After cutting a scarf joint and gluing it together do you also have to notch the head stock? I hope my question made sense .
Read more…https://brian-c.github.io/fretboard-template-generator/
Found this today. Print out the scale you want, cut it out, tape together, and your in business, to do your fret boards. Once printed out, there is a box in the lower right hand corner, that is
Read more…I can't use the FretFind2 app, as there is a pup in it. My computer won't allow it, as the pup is malware. Any how, I know that at one time, there were other fretting apps on the internet. But when searching, all that is coming up, is this one. If I
Read more…Need some advise. Getting ready to start my third build and considering using Redwood for the neck with a Rosewood fretboard. This will be a three string. Does anyone know of possible problems with the Redwood neck?
Read more…Greetings all,
I'm working on another build with dual springs along the thru body neck inside the box for reverb effect. My last build didn't seem to generate that much effect from the springs, so I thought I would turn to the collective think tank
Read more…As a someone who never played guitar, I’m teaching myself three string. Playing fretted at the moment.
Ive been working on melody, playing about twenty of the simple tunes in CB GITTY’s song book volume one.
I haven’t spent much time with chords, r
Read more…Ok let’s see you best Headstock for the past year of building I’ve seen some wicked ones ... I’ll start off here’s one of my favourite ones I did this season .
