Hello All! I've posted "One String Escape" my very first diddley bow instrumental solo for your review and comments. I'd had this instrument for some time but didn't take it seriously--until Shane posted a video of a young man named Bluebeaten Reds
Read more…I'm running through a blues deville and it sounds great to me,but i'm jus a beginner at cbg and playing with a slide.what amp do you experienced players use?
Read more…Hi all- Smithsonian Folkways has 24 hour-long podcasts giving and overview of the Folkways (and I think Library of Congress) music, oral history and poetry collections free for the download. You like Woodie Guthrie? You like Leadbelly? You like earl
Read more…i'm a shop teacher in chicago. i've started my kids on a lap/slide guitar project fashioned out of a piece of lumber and amped with a piezo. we are trying to figure out how to connect the piezo to the guitar and electric guitar amp with out all the f
Read more…Hi folks Well, I’ve pretty much finished my first build, and despite the lady’s neck being warped, the fact that she's highly strung, whines a bit and my splitting her box, and messing up the neck slots and generally acting in quite an un-luthier-li
Read more…this is an interview and in-studio performance with Hasil Adkins....king of psycho-billy or whatever the hell you want to label his tunes... the great thing about this performance is the interviews that are mixed in...HILARIOUS. and a great mix of
Read more…Hi all, I'm another newbie here and most of the way through my first build. I just got to the stage where I need to seal up the lid of my box, but I'm a bit scared as I don't want something to go wrong internally and have to smash up the box to get t
Read more…I just ordered my first cigar box off of ebay, and I am absolutely stoked about buildng a resonator. I can't wait until it comes to see what I can do with it. I haven't ever done anything like this before. I have wanted to build a guitar for quite so
Read more…I'm not sure what strings to put on my strum stick. Nylon, or... ans size. Any suggestions?
Read more…I'm new here and don't know nuthin. As a fatter of mact I'm a horrible, impatient guitarist, otherwise known as a drummer. I'm lookin for a cool guitar to play whilst I sing odd hill music and sea chanties. Should I just go away? Maybe I can start w
Read more…I put a new sound card (Diamond Extreme 5.1) in my computer a while ago, and I've noticed that there are tons of software amps, effects, and other goodies available to download from various sources. Never tried to "plug in" directly to the computer,
Read more…So, I'm working on my first CBG and it's almost finished but has now become a neighborhood affair. The ghostwitch family band and Henry the neighbor are helping. we've been drinking and rehearsing ...
Read more…As a result of becoming a member of this site we have all had the pleasure of meeting friends from places other than where we live (as well as in our local areas). One very recent experience that i had involved travel to Italy. As a member of this si
Read more…how do you find forum pages? i was going thru the forum pages and stopped for the night on page 100,when i came back on i could not figure how to get page 101 so i could continue...... i am not the sharpest knife in the drawer when it comes to comput
Read more…Hey all. Just bought a 2-string Lowebow today and I am as giddy as a school-girl...now I just need to learn to play it. Looking forward to building my first 3-string CBG after Christmas with the help and advice from you guys on this site.
Read more…Been kind of eyeballing this tin. It is pretty big says approx 14 1/2". Isn't that pretty big? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=360198125015&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT
Read more…Hey, do any a yous guys seal da paper covered cigar boxes with laquer or sump'n? Ya know... just ta keep it from peeling or comin' loos. Jus wondrin'. Aam tinkin' a tryin it right now. Tanks; Unc
Read more…I'm looking for someone to do a one track recording of high quality at least 256 kbs of mp3 or better. for me of a slow paced peacful song for a scenery setting for a local film I am doing and I need a song about 4 to 5 mintues long. if you are inter
Read more…I would like to build a license plate resonator cbg I have built 3 cbg's but don't have a clue what goes under the hood of one of these, any help would be much appreciated. thanks!
Read more…Any opinions about what kind of guitar string--either bronze-wound acoustic guitar strings or nickel-wound electric guitar strings--are best to put on CBGs? I have noticed that, although louder and brighter, the bronze-wound strings to produce a lot
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