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Where can I get the file for the 1959 Guitar. I built the lap steel. Wanted to try something else. Thanks Dave
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Performances, How to Play, Lessons, Concerts (2214)
Left hand help
I’ve made several CBGs, fretless and fretted, although I’ve concentrated my playing education on the fretless as my elderly fingers aren’t as mobile as I would like them to be. However, I’ve begun to use my fretted CBG, it would be a waste not to. Un
Read more…While we are talking solid body resonator guitars.....
Hi here is another solid build, in memory of the new owner's father who had passed on.
I selected the timber from the late woodworker's stash in his vast shed and made what you see here. However, the customer wanted a solid black lacquer, and I hate
Read more…Beginner advice
I’ve built a fretless CBG using a flat humbucker pickup, which I connect to a CB Gitty amp. However whenever I play it, as soon as I put the slide onto a string, the result is a “ping” like sound. This may well be due to my playing inexperience, but
Read more…20watt Amp
Yesterday, I got a new amp. Sweetwater had a sale going on the Orange Micro Terror amps at $200. I've been looking at these for awhile. They are small lunch box style amps with a 12AX7 preamp tube and Solid State power. They come in 2 forms, the Oran
Read more…Help for beginner
Hi, I’m looking for help with my CBG playing. When chord names are shown above a melody tab, are the chords strummed at the same time as the melody string would be picked? So far I’ve only been attempting to play the melody tabs.
Read more…6 string license plate resonator CBG
Hi folks:
I'm thinking of building a resonator 6-string with a vintage 1965 license plate. In your collective experience, will the plate be able to take the string pressure by itself, or will I need to put in braces?
Also, has anyone used the CBGitt
Read more…Which G is the G in GDG?
which key on a piano are the strings tuned to? what are the frequencies of the G, D, G sequence?
Read more…Proof is in the Tuner
New guy here, so please be kind as I ask a possibly stupid question.
Building my 2nd Cigar Box Guitar. 25.5 " scale, EBE tuning, mechanical bridge, semi constructed, pre-built neck.
Using a digital tuner, open E is in tune, 12 fret E is in tune and 1
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Hi everybody
i seem to have created a problem for myself by making a three string guitar with a 30" scale it seemed like a good idea at the time but now i am having great difficulty trying to tune it to the standard GDG i am rapidly running out of st
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Hi everybody
i seem to have created a problem for myself by making a three string guitar with a 30" scale it seemed like a good idea at the time but now i am having great difficulty trying to tune it to the standard GDG i am rapidly running out of st
Read more…Truss Rods. Needed?
Hello and good morning nation!
I have been building solid CBG style guitars for the last 3 to 4 years now and in all my builds, I always install a non-adjustable truss rod into the neck. Usually 1/4 inch thick metal rods.
The reason I do this was fro
Read more…Buying stuff from cbn, living in Australia
Hi, has anybody in Aus bought things and if so how to pay for it etc. Trev
Read more…make a 3 string sound like a 6 string
So, firstly, Im not associated with this product but I stumbled on something that can fill out the sound of your CBG chords. It's called a plectone (yes, they have a website with that name) and it is essentially two picks sandwiching a bit of silicon
Read more…Tryin to stay in tune
Howdy, I've been pickin a lotta years on regular guitar. I'd like to think I have a good touch. My GBG I can't keep in tune no mater what I do.
This is a zero fretted instrument that plays so good on the fretboard it's actually a little hard to play
Read more…best structured lessons yet (and who the heck is fred?)!
i'm as guilty as anyone of being distracted by everything that this site and youtube offers to beginning players, me flitting from one shiny one object to the next, trying out all that i can, very briefly, before moving on ... and never really lear
Read more…Miss all ya'll.
Funny thing happened on the way to the nation...
We lost internet access a few weeks ago, and I broke my hand about the same time, in a shop accident.
At the library typing one-handed and only have time for short message.
Read more…Threaded bolt nut
Seems like a pretty simple thing, but I just need someone to say “yes”. When using a threaded bolt as a nut, I need to shave about 5cm off the first fret. That’s half the bolt width. Yes?
Read more…check me out!!! 700 views help me hit 1000
check out my youtube vid playing a cbg a song i wrote about our current situation....look up "stan burd"
"six feet from everyone"
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=stan+burd
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