Here's a simple way to make sure your bridge is set correctly on your cigar box guitar. (If it's in the wrong place, things are gonna sound out-of-tune.)
-Shane
Read more…Shane Speal is back with a new lesson that tackles the biggest problem with so many beginners: the picking hand! "Your left hand is what you know. Your right hand is who you are."
Follow Speal's suggestions to make your picking hand a "drumstick" t
Read more…Hi folks. I may be using the wrong search terms, but I can't seem to find any info on this.
Does anyone have advice or methods they use to install fret markers on fretboards that are purchased with frets installed? Burning/branding is of course under
Read more…Hi guys, I’ve never built an amp before but I’m going to try and have a go of it in the coming months, I don’t know anything about speaker cones, apart from the difference between pressed and non pressed. What I’m looking to do is recreate an orange
Read more…I’ve purchased a preamplifier which I intend to use externally for several piezo builds. I’ll eventually mount it in a wooden box but in the meantime I’m making use of a small cardboard box. I’ve removed the piezo rod and wired it’s cable to a 1/4 in
Read more…Does your Biscuit Bridge cone seem to be lacking something?
I have found a radical approach to the 6 inch resonator cone in a cigar box guitar. Back in 1933 the Schireson Brother developed a new bridge system called the Flywheel bridge. Even though i
Read more…All 70 issues of Experimental Musical Instruments Magazine are free to download!
When I came home from the hospital several weeks ago, I couldn't do anything except sit and read. The first thing I reached for was my 70 issue set of Experimental Mu
Read more…I just put together a Gitty Psycho Knob. When I turn it on using my Peavey amp it adds a ton of background static. The 5th Heavy Metal setting is especially loud. It sounds like a very bad case of the static you get from a single coil pickup that is
Read more…I've built a few Ubasses using the Aquila Thundergut poly strings and I just got a query about whether I would be interested in making a similar short scale upright capable of being bowed. Has anyone done something similar and if so what strings and
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Trying to save some money and I am in need of some advise, leads, tips or what-have-you on AA, 9V, D and other rechargeable batteries and where to buy them. Applications vary from guitar amps and pedals that I will be building. Perha
Read more…I bought some of these pickups for a project guitar. These pickups are close to the same output as the original Danelectro pickups. They don't use the same magnets. Dano used Alnico VI and then settled on Alnico V while these pickups use a ceramic ma
Read more…Who’s up for CallyFest #4 this year? Our virtual festival was great last year. Thinking about mid-March during the March Madness Tournament.
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I made my first guitar, a reso, and I love it. It's got an amazing sound when open strumming, but once I put a finger on a string it sounds much more muted or dead and the sustain definitely disappears. I've never played guitar before, s
Read more…Hi, I woke up to the news of what is going down in the USA at the moment. I feel for you, it's very upsetting to see and hear.
What will be the songs of the future be saying, who will be the songwriters recording the state of the world at the moment,
Read more…I have acquired some nice but small cigar boxes. I was thinking of using them to build some 2 string "chuggers". My question is what would be good string sizes? I usuall7 build a 24.5 scale length. Want these to be electric guitars. These are not bas
Read more…Has anybody converted a Tupelo/Mountain Tenor kit to Fretless?
If so, do you have any tip or advice.
To get that old deep south southern blues sound what strings would you reccommend on the 3 string CBG?
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I've been hoping, since I started this addiction, to build an LPG, but just can't seem to find a decently priced one when I had the cash at hand. I hope to soon find one, but it appears the price of these things have doubled in abou
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