After obtaining a broken necked electro acoustic I've salvaged the electrics.. Input jack,, volume n tone slider control and piezo rod all pre wired.. Would swapping the piezo for a standard single gel coil pickup be o. K. Or would it need a differen
Read more…Ok, we have to admit it. It's the tail end of Summer, Labor Day is coming up, and we're about to start coasting into Fall. This means football and Halloween. Let's face it, the main seasonal songs in the CBG database are Christmas, Celtic, some Summe
Read more…Please post how to play a song video links here. Mississippi Hill Country Blues https://youtu.be/EWaobHeHe7k Wish you were here https://youtu.be/E2HQWKSpN_4 Dust my broom https://youtu.be/OhgvWPTnWfs Stormy Monday https://youtu.be/o7X6sDaDe2o Ho
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I have the Roland Micro Cube GX. First off, I really do love this little box! I have been using it for the last 3 months, but I am almost exclusively playing it with the headphones, and rarely play through the speaker...as I play most of the
Read more…Hi all, a pesky peizo question if anyone can help? I'm making a cbg with a humbucker & peizo with a 3 way switch and volume & tone, I'd like to decrease the output (volume) of the peizos. They're currently wired in parallel, would their output be les
Read more…This guy asked if I could play Blade Runner Blues. Does anyone know how to play it? Do you have the chords, tabs, or a videoleaaon? https://youtu.be/RScZrvTebeA
Read more…First, let me say that I am NOT asking for money. Good--that's out of the way.
What I do need is this: Recently, my project Big Chris & D'Bare Bones Band had a song on the Bongo Boy Records compilation "Backroom Blues Vol. 5". Every time Bongo Boy
I have the eBook "the How and Tao of Folk Guitar." It teaches how to play in open G tuning.
I noticed that in a lot of chords the sixth string is omitted from the strum and deadened by your thumb so it doesn't sound.'I've also heard that Kieth Richar
Read more…I'm new to this site but I'm having some issues with tuning on my first build. I know this has been covered in a topic already, and I have read everything I think I could find on this great site about it but maybe situations can be different. Well an
Read more…I took Shane's advice and tossed the picks away ,way more fun finger picking thanks for the great advice Shane .
Read more…I'm builder CBGs for Lovejoy highshool Allen tx. They are performing mid summers night in a oh brother where art thou type setting Anyone interested it helping teach the kids to play ? I will get a list of the songs !
Read more…Other than appearance, there is no particular reason to use a cover over a recessed, Lightning type cone, is there?
Read more…It’s Swamp witch guitar Album time again . BUT…THIS TIME THE PLAYERS SUBMIT THEIR OWN CHOICE .
Swamp witch guitar Owners / Players, get your Swamp witches out and make a track /mp3 to send in .Or ,.. send me a link to a new (or old) video, o
Read more…Could someone wat h these, and tell me what I need to work on for gigging, please? I sent these vids to a brewery for booking a show, and they told me that my guitar skills weren't ready for a venue yet. Note. I'm partially blind, so I don't have fin
Read more…Hey guys. I've just finished my 2nd build. I put a p90 in. Sounded great in the dry run before finishing. So a couple of issues now i have it all back together. I earthed the strings via the tail piece to the out jack and now when I touch the strings
Read more…We have had our 4th cigar box festival passed Saturday and had roughly 650 visitors at the venue: cafe Calluna in Holland.
Again a big succes!
For those of you who are interested in footage and images of the Dutch cigar box festival, see our Facebo
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Just wanted some feedback. I've been playing my CBG for a little over 3 months now, and was wondering how folks around here make recordings. More specifically, how folks record to a computer file. Yes, I have a video camera, but I want stric
Read more…I have always striven for my CBGs to play well acoustically with the ability to amplify them with piezo pickups. this is my first stab at an electric guitar. I'm pretty stoked.
Here is my Cohiba "Johnny Cash".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn7BZvu4
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I have several cigar box amps, some I've made using Gitty parts and some purchased from them. I test the guitars I make with them, some piezo and some mag pu. The magnetic pickups work great through the cbg amps but there is no sound coming
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