After Christmas I finished up with a whole bunch of chocolate and cookie tins covered in pictures of Santa Claus, Snow men and Christmas messages. The local goodwill stores are also filling up with a few. Now I got no beef with Santa (he and I go ba
Read more…Hello everyone, i'm currently having a battle with my first build.
i have tried mounting piezo pickups in several places but i cant seem
to get rid off the exsessive handling noise. the body is made of powder coated metal
and a table leg runs throug
Read more…Hi folks,
I've been off of here for a couple of years, and cycling back to the cbg hobby.
I just bought three cookie tins. Two are round at 6", the other is rectangular at 4x6".
I'm looking for plans on making something with these. Particularly
Read more…I wanted to show two of my pet projects to see if you guys find them interesting! I know most you guys are all about the hand made (which is awesome!) but I should warn you these involved some pre-made parts.
Full albums:
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So far I've built a number of different "Cigar Box" instruments. 3 & 4 string guitars, ukes, a 4 string bass, and most recently a "cookie tin" guitar (see pic). I'd like to try building a "cookie tin" banjo next.
Can anyone supply me wit
Read more…For me drum body banjo sound better. For me Kankara sanshin works with good tin also. I have kankara sanshin measures http://bachido.com/community/forum/12636 Scale lenght is 570mm. I also have some good cookie tins. My problem is neck wood and strin
Read more…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5wydJRFvKE
What about homemade recording devices? That guy in the video is very inspiring!
I did some recording trials before using old CDs. But since I saw the tin can recording, I want to copy that too. Who is in?
Read more…Last night I put together a quick build using an old "Canadian Club" gift box that my wife had been holding on to for a few years. I already had the neck built for a hubcap guitar so there wasn't much to do to finish it up.
The box is 9" square, and
Read more…I'm building my first instrument. It's going to be a tenor ukulele, which I'm calling a "banjolele" because the box I'm using is a rectangular tin that once held Whitman's candies. It measures 10" x 8.5". I've got all the materials I need at this poi
Read more…hi, my name is mark and from from uk and got my first cbg yesterday. The short question is, it tends to sound very light and tinnie so i would like to base it out to give a heavy blues sound. obviously i need to change the strings but if i can desrib
Read more…I live in Estonia. It's hard to find used cigarbox or humidor in Estonia. New humidors are 51 euro.For me buying form ebay is to expensive. I have never build a guitar only didley bow.
I'am not soft guitar player. I don't like nylon strings.
I neve
Read more…So this is my first build I've been watching and learning on this site for the past month or so and eventually built one. Thanks to Juju for his advice from the interview i did with him on my blog.
So this is England and we don't have the oversized
Read more…i found 2 examples of how tin boxes are attached to the necks.
the first has some kind of frame inside the box and the second
has a support piece under the neck. does anyone know if the second
is done by using screws to attach it to the back side of
Read more…Hey guys, appologies if this has been covered but there are a LOT of discussion to file through.
I've been experimenting with piezo elements to amplify one of my CBG's and a mic and i get the same issue with both...they feedback like a bitch!
I've trie
Hi folks I've knocked together a little web site/blog where I'll be talking about and hopefully selling a few cigar box amps, effects and anything else that floats my boat. There are two amps available at the moment, but it's early days and to be h
Read more…Hi there, I've made a few CBGs but just got my hands on an excellent, large, rectangular tin that is begging to become a guitar. I was just wondering what, if anything people did as structural support in these things. Its as solid as your average tin
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