"Hard times make great music." Ain't that th' truth?!
While e'rrybody is stuck at home, we're gonna get y'all building the coolest stringed instruments ever. There's over $1000 in prizes, too!
Unlike our contests of the past, this build-off ha
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Here's a wild guitar concept I haven't seen before. This three-stringer was crafted from a discarded exit sign by Gary Desrosiers. According to Desrosiers, he came across the plastic sign at a job site and inspiration struck.
He
Read more…Samantha Fish is currently on her Chills & Fever 2017 tour and she sat down with Reverb.com to show off her pedalboard and main guitars (including her Stogie Box 4-string cigar box guitar). Check out the wild space effects she gets from her delay!
Read more…After spending months developing the new 2x4 Lap Steel Kit, Ben "Gitty" Baker started to consider other uses for simple 2x4 planks and came up with this very simple strummer guitar.
To make the instrument, Gitty started with a single piece of 2x4
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CONTEST OVERVIEW:
What instrument can you build that starts with a 2x4 plank? We're looking for the most spectacular, innovative, interesting and artistic creations. Note: This contest will also include all instruments, whether stringed, wind, p
Read more…So I got the wiring to my new CBG 95% figured out. The kill switch is working, the knob is turning it up and down, but in the middle of turning the volume knob, I get a buzz for a second and then it goes away as I get to each end of the turn. Turn u
Read more…Found object guitars are popping up everywhere! We have two new viral videos this week featuring guitars made from an axe and a car air filter. If you have a wild instrument of your own, post it in the comments below.
Reverend Peyton Plays and Spl
Read more…Glenn Watt of C. B. Gitty Crafter Supply returns with another country cover for one-finger cigar box guitar playing. We love these lessons because they allow ANYBODY to play a cigar box guitar with this simple method.
Here is "You'll Never Leave Har
Read more…Amazing Grace continues to be one of our most requested lessons. Glenn Watt of C. B. Gitty Crafter Supply shows you how to play the entire thing using just one finger. You'll need a 3-string cigar box guitar tuned to GDG.
We heard it from a friend who heard it from a friend that Glenn Watt of C. B. Gitty Crafter Supply has taken the great singalong rocker, Take It On the Run by REO Speedwagon and arranged it for one-finger playing! You'll need a 3-string cigar box gu
Glenn Watt of C. B. Gitty Crafter Supply has broken down Creedence Clearwater Revival's classic Bad Moon Rising and shows you how to play the entire thing with one finger! You'll need a 3-string cigar box guitar tuned to GDG.
So this is the design I am thinking of for my new rig. I am still working out the bugs, this was the first time I even tried it out on the bench. So bare with me.
I was thinking flap pup design, and I always thought it would be cool to make a pup tha
Read more…Man it has been a while. I have taken a loooong time off away from the forum and building anything.
So, I am recently wanting to get back into it. And also a bit rusty.
I am wanting to build some little portable amps from older transistor radios.
Read more…Shane Speal shows the simple paper-thru-strings percussion technique that Johnny Cash made popular in songs like "I Walk the Line." This is a lesson that needs to be taught!
Thanks to C. B. Gitty for buying us this nifty new video camera with all
Read more…What happens when you spend all day cutting 1/8" thick wood on a CNC laser cutter? Apparently, C. B. Gitty's Jason Munoz gets inspired to recycle the wood scraps into cigar box guitar necks!
Check out this wild neck Munoz created using nothing but 1
Read more…Internet viral sensation, Brushy One-String is known for flogging an old acoustic guitar graced with a single bass string. After playing that guitar worldwide for several years, it was finally in need of some repairs. Pablo Lojo, a luthier in Buen
Read more…Shane Speal has been championing the 3-string "EEB" tuning for years and has written several songs with it. In this lesson, he shows how you can start playing your own lush ballads by simply using two fingers for a moveable chord. It also includes
Read more…Cigar box guitar phenom (and teacher) Jerome Graille returns with another blistering 3-string cigar box guitar video. "Just my little Eruption on cigar box," he comments.
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Read more…Shane Speal's back with one of the most useful lessons for cigar box guitar sellers looking for the ultimate riff that will draw people to their booth. Speal shows how to use a simple G major scale on a three-string slide CBG and a Roland MicroCube
Read more…Glenn Watt of C. B. Gitty Crafter Supply takes one of the most popular songs of the 1970's teaches you how to play the entire thing with one finger! This John Denver classic is very easy to play using Glenn's simplified technique. You'll need a 3-
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