Hi, I made this video five years ago and agonized about posting it for public viewing. The reason is that I made the video and guitar kit for my son, to encourage him into building guitars, so some comments are directed at him only. He lives 2500km a
Read more…I made a box and am having major trouble finding the correct height of the neck .i could easily give up and make a slide instrument only but i want a fretted 4 string . I've made it before but with a different box or cigarbox .
I think the problem is
I have just completed a fretted build, with a 23 inch scale, but cannot eliminate buzz unless I use, in my mind, a ridiculously high bridge. My CBG has a break angle, about 1-2 degrees, an M6 bolt as the nut giving me a height of approx 1mm at the fi
Read more…Hi all, it's Shane Speal. I wanted to give you guys an update about the latest changes for Nation 3.0. This is especially for the 'old guard' members who have taken such good care of Nation 2.0, even with all its glitches and problems.
Got a Three Stooges calendar, a pic I'd love to stick on a cardboard cigarbox git. How to best glue and especially clear-coat cover it without wrecking the color photo? Thx all, -Glenn Kaiser
Read more…I have built an all electric CBG, mainly because the box I used was so thin it wouldn't resonate satisfactorily. I used a hard tail bridge and a CBGitty humbucker pick up. I don't have a conventional amplifier but I use an iRig interface to play it t
Read more…Ok, Ray, you said you would pay for this post… I hope the money is on its way. Here is the [shortened] conversion breakdown of the job.
I have seen a few accounts of others who have done this, but they have been very basic conversions. If you are doin
Read more…Hey guys and gals, hope all are well.
I was wondering of anyone has a good suggestion for a camera that can take video with decent sound and pics with good clarity. My Nikon L610 gave up. Something with decent battery life and is less than $500.
Does anyone else miss Pick? As some know I was his biggest fan/ supporter. I have the record for most Swampwitches owned by a single person. Pick and I were buds and not all of it was sunshine and cherries. We've had clashes and arguments etc. Beyond
Read more…Sorry no new CBGs to show, but here is a collection of resonator guitars I have built over the years. One is a left-handed acoustic guitar that I was commissioned to convert to a Resonator guitar. It might be worth showing how the job was done someti
Read more…I have built my previous CBGs with 24-25 inch scales. However, I have problems with the fretted builds, in that my old fingers have trouble forming some of the chords. I have decided to build a new CBG with a 23 inch scale, hoping that the narrower f
Read more…Hi, some time ago I built a 4x2 bass, it's called a stick bass. Photos should help tell the story. It is free-standing so the bass player would just walk over and play, standing or sitting.
It sounded like a mic'ed-up acoustic bass.
New guinea Rosewood
Read more…If you need to get your old content from Cigar Box Nation 2.0, you can still see the old site at https://cigarboxnation.ning.com for the next week or so. We held on to the old site during the transition as we work the bugs out.
-shane
Read more…Hi, first thanks to the members who have commented on my contributions to the forum. But I should point out that other members contribute far more than I do, they just do it in different areas of the CBN site, and do it regularly.
I have not built a C
Read more…i really hope this is not the final form of the forums.
It is the most difficult task to find any of the previous posts. The list of subforums is gone and there is a horrible list at the top where you have to click more to see them.
the posts are not
Read more…God bless the writers of science magazines back in the 1960's. Everyone wanted to be a rock star, so they found innovative ways to make the instruments!
We have archived these vintage 2x4 bass plans in a downloadable PDF file for you to print out an
Read more…Hi all, I am living in Thailand and building CBGs for about a year.
I will be returning to the UK this year and looking to continue building. My question is 'where is the best place to buy cigar box's? Where do you get your box's from?
Cheers
Ric
Read more…This seems to affect some videos but not all and I can't quite figure out why. Some vids are still displaying correctly since the upgrade but others are displaying as small thumbnails like this…
Here’s how to fix them…
Once upon a time, I needed a ukulele. But since I play the guitar, it was difficult for me to transition to the 4-string uke. So I searched for a ukulele with 6 strings and I found this amazing 6-string guitalele by Gretsch. I loved it and played it
Read more…Train songs on Handmade instruments by Eastwood station, featuring CB Gitty’s own Ben Baker & Danny Woodman. Follow the Link to their YouTube page:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tydik-_kXWQ&t=827s
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