You guys are not gonna belive what came up for sale on ebay!!!
A neck and boxes from the master cigar box craftsman Sam Kamaka. There is a neck and two Sam'l Davis cigar boxes of his for sale. Sam Kamaka's family started building cigar box ukes in
Read more…Hi beautiful people, I'm new to the group and have just built my first cigar box guitar. Well... Not quite a cigar box as I've made the box my self. I'm very pleased with the result and I'm now going to build another 3. I'm looking for special parts
Read more…Great looking builds from the reclaimed barn wood.
Anybody else think the wood looks more like chestnut than maple?
I'm leaning toward chestnut because at the time the barn was built chestnuts accounted for approx. 25% of the forest in the eastern US
Read more…Took a photo with my old iphone of a homemade cigar box guitar I just built, I have a few other photos I will post over at
http://www.homemade-guitars.com/
I just wanted to share.... what'cha think????
These guys in Syria are just like us!!!!
Music brings folks together!!!!.... Lots of new history of cigar box guitars I will be posting today at
http://www.homemade-guitars.com/
if you have some free time come on by and read some stories!
If you have duplicate boxes that are too skinny for a build have a go at a doubledecker.
Remove the top from one and the base from the other,Line with thin ply to glue them together - result a nice deep useable box
members of the nation present a new album featuring 17 new original tracks played on homemade instruments - with a little attitude thrown in.
featuring new original tracks by
rtz
patrick curley
tom thompson
vinylhed
silent jim
gary martin
rich
Read more…Do you need some bluesy background video for your CBG songs? I live in an area with all kinds of interesting "old west" stuff. I love to go out and shoot old mining sites and ghost towns here in Arizona. These are video clips you can use without worr
Read more…Here is my latest invention, a three stringed fretted cigarbox guitar. To test it, I played one of my all time favorites, Canned Heat's On the road again, see this you Tube:
Read more…So, a little background.
This summer, I "finished" my first CBG, a 3-string fretless. It had been something I wanted to do for a long time, and I finally just did it.
I took it along when I visited the Orchard Festival run by the South Westminster A
Hi...Does anyone have a chord chart on chords or riffs on a 4 string open E..cheers
Read more…I got the Shane Speal newsletter yesterday and even though I have seen his logo before, yesterday It caught my eye and I saw it in a new light and wanted to try to draw it with a pen.
well, just wanted to share this art, Shane's been a big influence
Read more…I've made a few guitars and stick dulcimers and I'm having a problem. It seems the lowest (thickest) string sounds fine unfretted, but when I fret it, it sounds dead. As I fret towards the neck it gets worse. What have I done wrong and how do I corre
Read more…So ITS been a couple of weeks since I fried everyone's brain with stupid questions so here's my next topic of conversation! I can translate chords to three string even one string but most guitar riffs intros or solos are not chords but a series of n
Read more…When moving between frets I can hear the scrape of the slide along the string. More so on the bass string and not at all on the high string, it is most noticeable when amplified. I've tried lifting off entirely between frets but I get a ringing or bu
Read more…why is it that every body on you tubes want to give lesson??
don't they think there's enough tuition going on.
I would like to hear music on these cbgs not f$$king lesson's.
sorry but some do try their best sing but I want here the cbgs play.
so far
Read more…I have a Hohner Blues Blaster with a fried element. Any suggestions for a replacement element that will sound good and greasy, without breaking the bank?
Thanks.
Read more…Got a phone call last week ,, started to hang up on the guy ,, but he has seen one of my guitars that I had made ,, The guy was playing it,, and he was amazed .. Got my name offen the back and called .It is the Fall Pecan Festival ,, he has comped m
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