The St. Louis Fest today was the best yet. People were everywhere, Checking out all the guit's for sale, playing those they wanted to buy. Justin Johnson on stage wowing the crowd as usual. Justin took the time to play guitars that people brought him
Read more…My very first cbg was a 3 string fretless. It really enjoy playing it, and it turned out to be the gateway for this new hobby (obsession). Since that build, I've made a couple electric, acoustic, and ukuleles. All of which have been fretted four str
Read more…Hi Guys. I have a fretless guitar and want to mark off the fret positions to make it easier for myself. It's been built on a 24" scale, but I can't find any info on where to mark off the frets. Ive been out of the loop for ages and my brains frazzle
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I'm in the process of building a biscuit tin guitar and was planning on fitting a duel piezo pick up. I have built 2 of these guitars previously, one with a magnetic pick up and one with a single piezo.
I struggled to get a
Read more…I've had a few hubcaps kicking around for a while now with the intention of building a guitar .is there a group dedicated to these guitars .? Jamies birthday present has got me inspired but I'm not sure how to go about it ...
Read more…I thought this would be a good place to post these photos. This is a newly made one-string. I used what are considered tone woods for the entire project: maple neck, maple resonator box, Indian rosewood finger board, ebony and bone bridge, bone nut.
Read more…this guy hand makes these they are beautiful, however it was tuned DADF# and not normal for a Cigar Box guitar I guess, it's more a tenor guitar look but they are playing them that way, where do i find music to play with this tuning and strings that
Read more…Check this out Somebodys Got to Do It
Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs fame has a show called Somebody's Got To Do It on CNN.
Tonight (Thursday June 4, 9 pm EST) his show does a story on Mike Snowden a CBG builder and player out of Marietta, GA.
I plan to che
Read more…https://jerusalemmules.bandcamp.com/album/no-sacred-ground here is a link to a free 14 minute track of me practicing some of the songs I plan to play at the hand made music extravaganza in Toronto Ohio tomorrow....Enjoy...mayy
Read more…That is my question for discussion. I would like to call myself a luthier, but I hesitate. I have built 21 instruments. They all work. I usually say I am an amateur luthier.
I have built 3 string guitars, 4 string guitars and 11 ukes. Do my o
Read more…Hi folks. I imagine there are hundreds of similar questions posted here, so apologies for creating yet another.
I'm about to order a dog bowl reso from Shane Wagstaff in Mansfield (he's only a handful of miles from me, and his builds always seem to
Read more…I believe this one of our member.#sitting on top of the world..
I like it alot. sound rocky .
Read more…I'm installing a pre wire mag pickup and just noticed a little tab on the pot that sticks up. With the tab in place I can't install it flush to the box. Can I safely cut it off?
Read more…what is this page for thats the question I would like to know.
can't we keep things in order.
this web page is for
any other regarding making etc should be in here....
Are there any videos out there on how to specifically play a Lowebow?? I am intrigued by this contraption.....Thanks, Bill
Read more…Hello, pleased to meet you all. I've been lurking in this forum for quite a while and I think this place is great! I got so inspired two days ago that I made my first instrument, the one stringed Canjo with a diatonic scale. It is a good start and it
Read more…I am a new member and this may have been posted before but I just wanted to post a few pictures that may save someone from ruining a fret board or neck using the Harbor Freight Japanese Pull Saw as a fret saw. There are two models and I originally bo
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