Wonder if someone can shed a little light for me... Im building a twin neck cbg which features a diddly bow top neck and 4 string bottom neck. Each will have its own mag pup wired thru a 3 way switch (git only, diddly only, or both - for the more ad
Read more…I have seen and read the post about making a piezo pickup and have bought some and need help with pics on how to solder the wires on as the ones I have are wireless. Thanks.
Read more…I know most guys here use the A D G strings from a standard acoustic set but has anyone used the E D B strings for one 3 string guitar and the A G E strings for another with any success? I would hate to buy strings and only use half of them.
Read more…Sale Length: This refers to the distance from nut to bridge, is this correct? I see there are some variations on this, 23, 24.5, 25.5 inches. Is this correct in terms or how I am measuring this information? —B
Read more…Hi all I am all together new to all of this. I got my very first banjo this past Saturday and I can now play marry had a little lamb. It is a pie plate banjo made by a good friend that has made close to four hundred banjos. I started looking and foun
Read more…KNOCK IT THE F#@k OFF!!! Errrrgh. I'm not one to begrudge someone their hobby, but dammit! Some guy is taking really large, gorgeous, hard to find boxes, slapping a $2.50 clock kit in it, and charging $45 dollars for it as "wall art". DO THEY HAVE
Read more…Hello ya'll, First let me thank all of yall for all the great information you hand out on this site! Props to all of ya!!! Now for the messup part, lol I got my box and decided to use some old oak I got from an old couch. started reading on here and
Read more…I know this isn't CBG and is primarily US focused (international brothers, please excuse me), but on the 8th anniversary of the terrorist attack on 9/11, it seem fair to pause and look back. I was teaching at a Christian School in San Jaun, Puerto R
Read more…So I tried to fret my first CBG and the fretting came out great but I found out I don’t know what scale length is. I thought I knew what I was doing It turns out I don’t. Can someone explain scale length to me in simple terms. I know this is probably
Read more…Drilling the headstock to fit the tuners fills me with dred. Everytime. It should be simple enough, but without a drill press, I find it nigh on impossible to get everything in line. Marking where they go is no problem - a tape measure or a templat
Read more…I found this site this morning and wanted to share it with you all. Go to blackguitars.com then on the right click on tin tone. Lots of nice builds from old tins and lots of good ideas also. Roger
Read more…Just curious what kind of tools used to shape necks. I've been using router, rasp, sandpaper. I like old hand tools. and have been looking at draw knives and spokeshaves. Not very familiar with them, never used either. Anyone use them. Lots of old on
Read more…Looking for a small practice amp to use with a piezo equipped CBG. See alot of the Danelectro Honeytones, anyone got first-hand experience with it? Others? Looking for battery capability as well as a/c adapter. Thanks
Read more…So I'm driving along the backroads near where I live, and I approach this particular place where a family of clowns used to live. (Yeah, that's what I said, a family of clowns.) They were once a staple of every area parade and festival around these p
Read more…Here's is a link to a webpage on my website http://www.dbrooker.com/songtabs.html where you can down load a PDF that has a few songs tabed out using numbers for each fret to play the note of a song using a single string AKA diddley bow - Some years a
Read more…My wife & son have snickered, but they've put up with me swinging through the "craft" section at wally-world and even the few calculating stares at household objects. When we left last week on a cruise to the Bahamas, I was told - NO! you can't pack
Read more…I started this discussion back in June as " . . . population 1000" when we were knocking up against that milestone, NOW we're closing in on twice that!
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Hello. I'm new to cigar box guitar building, and I'm close to finishing my first 3 string guitar. Pretty much trial and error so far. My questions are. Should I use the piezos I purchased at Radio Shack or should I use leftover humbuckers that I have
Read more…I just discovered the whole cigar box guitar thing last week and am already mildly addicted... okay, maybe very addicted. I built my first one this past weekend out of a box I already had, but now I need to know where to get more. Do most cigar shops
Read more…Well, I've had my Lowebow for less than a year but I'm seein' some deterioration on the cigar box under where I pick... Okay, I am a thrasher but is it okay to take some of that clear plastic laminent and cut it to size and carefully lay it over that
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