Getting better at playing slide and blues, and I"m interested in using some pedals I own. I have:
Boss CE-2 chorus
Ibanez PT-9 phaser
Digitech Screamin' Blues distortion, and
Behringer RV-600 reverb.
I'm also thinking about the TC Helicon body rez p
Read more…I was organizing my mini-shop this weekend and needed a place to stack my paltry collection of boxes. I had an old pallet outside. So I pulled most of the bottom slats off and leaned it against the wall.
It'll work for now...
I'm a drummer by trade, but love to pick around on my Cigfiddle. Baratto Cigfiddles are best tuned to D, A, D, F# and I was having trouble finding a chord chart that could assist with figuring out my favorite cover tunes. Most of the tab sites jus
Read more…Happy New Year to all members, why not bring 2016in playing three strings.
Read more…Just wondering if I need to be looking at tech for getting the most out of CBG playing. I've seen videos from you awesome lot using loop machines, fancy pants amps, distortion pedals, other effects pedals, mics and other baffling stuff. Here's the qu
Read more…This video just showed up on my FB feed and thought some of you might enjoy it. Cheers!...
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I really only make videos so I can hear what I sound like--kinda like a golfer who films his swing in order to correct flaws and improve his game. But the built in mic on my laptop sounds pretty terrible.
I'm not smart enough to understand advanced
Read more…The 2015 Christmas Album is ready to be downloaded!
Thanks loads to everyone for their submissions, and special thanks to Steve for organizing it again this year.
You can download the album here:
http://downloads.cbgitty.com/cbnalbums/2015Christm
Read more…I want to learn David Bowie's Space Oddity on CBG but there are a couple of chords in there that I am not sure how to play. Am7/G and C/E. This type of chord confuses me even on a regular guitar. Can someone please help?
Rusty
Read more…Does anyone have any good country slide tabs, lessons or tips bookmarked? I have a couple licks figured out, but I'm feeling pretty limited. A friend wants to collaborate on a folk-country tune and I can imagine all the cool lap-steel style leads I c
Read more…Good morning folks:
The diddley bow is the first musical instrument I've ever picked up and felt good about noodling with. I spent a fair chunk of my childhood in New Orleans, and my weekends were occupied with listening to Jazz concerts, funerals an
Read more…I'm in the process of building a small cbg for my 2 year old granddaughter for Christmas. I'm trying to figure out some details to make it look more girly without giving it a look she'll quickly outgrow. I'm going to mix epoxy with purple glitter and
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For the first time in my life, a complete stranger asked me to make a guitar for him.
He wants something of the dobro type. He wants "a tin guitar to play delta blues with"
I told him I could make a cigar box guitar with a resonator on it.
Prob
Read more…Still showing I'm wet behind the ears here. I'm learning about music and building cbgs at the same time and so far, this us the best place for answers. My last 5 guitars, I used rod piezo pickups under the bridge. And here is where I show I need to
Read more…Get ready, come one, come all!.... Here's your printable ticket....Prices subject to change : -)
Read more…when you had kids. so cute..
https://www.facebook.com/mia.debbins/videos/10152649848628998/
Read more…Good morning, fellow bargain basement luthiers!
I am new to the use of any musical instrument (aside from the obligatory month or two with a recorder while in the SCA 30 years ago), and my CB Gitty Diddly Bo arrived over the weekend. I've watched Sha
Read more…If..ya have ah floatin bridge.. N..ya change..yer neck angle.like on ah banjo.. Why dose.it affect..fret position? By makin.tba frettid notes sharp..?
Read more…the sound should be better inside the guitar and welded to a fixed jack that you think
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