"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…Bob Wurster of Berkeley Springs, WV is more than just your average guitar builder. His instruments, built under the name Berkeley Strings feature ergonomic necks and top notch fretting. Some of his instruments even have amplifiers build in to the
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
Read more…We have just discovered another set of historic plans as part of Cigar Box Nation's ongoing research to archive homemade folk instruments. How a Boy Can Make a Banjo was first published in the Salt Lake Herald on Aug. 20, 1893.
The article descri
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…Just a little something I came up with, tell me what you think.
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Read more…hey yall, will post pics soon as i have them and add a link to the reply but i just finished a new build last night and fine tuned it today. its a 3 string bass, played with a slide and tuned the same as our guitars, AEa cept being a bass its one oct
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