Where are the best sources to look for cigar boxes? Just starting out and need to pickup a stash of boxes to work with. What should I look for in a box? I’ve made a few traditional acoustic guitar and ukuleles so I know about wood. Are there cert
Read more…Anybody have a tab for Goober Peas before I attempt to transcribe it to G-B-G?
https://www.music-for-music-teachers.com/goober-peas.html
Read more…Just doing my first fretted instrument. Cut the slots in a poplar fretboard, and I noticed that one of the slots is off by about a millimeter. I’m thinking it will be a few cents flat. Should I just proceed and live with it, or cut another one?
I ten
Read more…Howdy. I have had a lot of luck with getting cb Ukes to sound VERY good. Not so much with a cb Fiddle yet. Any plans (or simple screenshots) of cb fiddles that had a decent sound? Thanks!
Read more…I know, I know, I spend way too much time on YouTube and this tool is better than my last find, which was better than the one before ect ect. But if I had seen"This gem" (CLICK) I wouldn't have bought half the crap I picked up at garage sales. Watc
Read more…Had some problems with 'Blues Box' with the box lid, bridge, action height, intonation, all sorts of stuff. Honked the lid up pretty good, lots of screw holes, so...
I fabbed a new one out of 1/8th birch ply, burnt an anchor in (woodburning), rigged a
I’m thinking of working on two bowed 3-string instruments... akin in size to (and using strings for) a cello and string bass. I have the luxury of looking at string types and sizes for guitar tunings... but can anyone suggest cello and string bass st
Read more…I use my iMac and iPad to access the site using Safari as my browser. There are multiple links on the site where I get the following message when I click the link.
"This website may be impersonating "www.cigarboxnation.com" to steal your personal or
Read more…I've fallen down a bit of a rabbit hole!
I've been thinking of ways to get a powered fret-slot cutting system going, both for speed and consistency of depth. I'm not quite ready to invest in the StewMac table saw blade, especially since I'd prefer to
Read more…These things...
Per Shane's recipe, VERY simple conversion to lo-fi mic.
DO IT! SUPER easy, SUPER awesome!
I made two necks out of walnut with scarf joints, seemed nice and straight prior but now I notice a back bow of about 1/16" rocking, once a fretboard is glued on and secured with substantial clamps and heavy bracing top and bottom, could this be corr
Read more…I bought a single coil pickup, but can't figure out how to install it. The 2 mounting screws that came with it are too skinny to actually thread into the pickup harness. Do i have the wrong screws or is there a method of installing this that I'm not
Read more…Hi everyone,
I am new to owning a CBT and to this group so hello to all my new friends.
I purchased my first cbg before attempting a build so I could get learning, I would like to tune my new cbg to GDG but the low G string will not tune to G before
Read more…As it says, I'm close to finishing my first guitar and installing the pickup is frying my brain.
I had initially bookmarked this link: https://guitarelectronics.com/1-humbucker-1-volume-1-tone/
but the wiring is different to my pickup.
I have a singl
Read more…I recently built a guitar neck(4 string) that turned out perfect......until I was putting the tuners in the headstock. Well loe and behold my headstock was cut to thin. So, my question is, are there tuners available with shorter stems? Thank you.
Read more…I'm trying to figure out what works for me. Arthritis really limits my left hand fingers, and not being a player, figuring out how to noodle around is challenging...gonna have to pay closer attention to Shane's lessons.
But slide....have a metal stubb
Been messing w. this a bit- for busking, etc.. I already know positioning speaker far away from pickup, placement of sound-hole and the like, but any OTHER ideas outside of these to killing feedback? Thanks, -Glenn
Read more…I’m on the hunt for an amp, I’m still on the fence.
right now I’m going back and forth between a used Roland cube street and a new cube mini, but I’m really open to any and all suggestions.
ive also looked into the pignose amps but I have a lot of
I would like to build a cigar box banjo for my next build. I’ve seen people place small tambourines with a skin head and bells removed inside the box in the same place you would put a reso cone. But what style pickup should be use. I’ve have bad luck
Read more…i’m going to put this five dollar make it Holla MGB pick up in this box. I never wired one. Two questions. Which connections to the red and black go to when I solder them to the input jack? Secondly, do I have to ground it somehow? If so, how do I d
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