CHRISTMAS 2018
will be here before we know it !
For any of the new folks here on the Nation every Christmas we compile a FREE DOWNLOAD ALBUM of songs played, composed and sung by our members, we have been doing this for the last several years with
Read more…The viewer requests keep coming in! "I Ain't Superstitious" is one of the most challenging songs yet... but you can do it! I break the riff down into three parts for you to master. I'm especially thrilled to teach a song that is in the key of D.
Read more…If anyone has used one of these in their builds how did you attach the bridge to the box? Did you glue it? Screw it? Would like to know the best option before attach it to the box thank you.
Great forum BTW.
Read more…You asked for more Howlin' Wolf... so you're gettin' more! For this lesson, I've taken the 1960 Chess Records version of "Back Door Man" and distilled the guitar parts down to a single 3-string cigar box guitar riff.
For reference, let's hear the
Read more…Off of piezo pickups now onto magnetic, been using 80/20 Bronze strings and wondering if this is still a good option or if better are recommended?
thanks
Read more…Watched a video by a pro builder pressing grommets into a headstock using a purpose built press. I was fiddling with a few things to see if I could replicate something similar with stuff I had in my shed when I noticed my many Phillips head screwdriv
Read more…Hi, under the chrome cover is my new pickup experiment. It going into a resonator style CBG, you can just see the hookup wires sticking out. I have not wax potted it yet as I have a bit more work to do. Its what I would call a Hummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Buc
Read more…Viewer requests! Shane shows how to play two of Howlin' Wolf's biggest songs: "Smokestack Lightning," "Little Red Rooster" and "Asked Her for Water (She Gave Me Gasoline)."
Tune your cigar box guitar to Open G to start the first lesson:
Next, we
Read more…I've really been enjoying building and learning to play these crazy 3 stringers, heck I've even sold a few. I started building to hopefully finally be able to play a stringed instrument. While I love the " build with what ya got" motto I wanted to bu
Read more…Hi, yep that's the fingerpicking truth.
My old band arranged a 20th anniversary get together, since its formation, and seventeen years since that original line up played together. I got the more resent line up together [haven't played together for te
Read more…When making a heel for a CBG, is it possible to make and glue to the outside of the box and glue under the neck as opposed to running the heel all th way through the box?
Read more…After reading and watching videos about tuning for proper intonation, I wasn’t ready to bite the bullet for a hardtail bridge. I just don’t like the look on a cbg. No other reason. So I bought some 12mm dice, slotted the top of three of them, and use
Read more…For the past month I've been working on my fourth and fifth guitars. I've been making them for my daughters. They are young but enthusiastic about it and they both wanted to paint theirs, in their own style. My arrangement was this: I get to design a
Read more…I don't always have a chance to get to them. But when I do I can usually come home with a bargain or two. Last night was a good night. Paid $3 for a Ryobi drill. Works! Paid $12 for 329 CDs. Out of all of them I'm keeping 47. That's still .26 a CD. A
Read more…So I've made five cbgs so far and I'm really wanting to try frets on my next build. I still want to be able to play slide with the frets so I'm wondering what fret size to get to start experimenting with.
Read more…Post a pic of your first build with short description.
My first is a Cohiba box Les Paul Jr. copy. W/sound hole next to neck. and vintage p90
A few years ago I built four cbg,s three acoustic anyone PIezo with volume and tone pots. Now I am about to start a 6 string electric. A few questions
1. Pots, seems like most folks use 500k pots on electrics, but I have red in several places t
Read more…Hi everyone,
I've made a couple of induction pickups like the ones in the first set of images in this discussion:
They seem to
Read more…Looking to buy a slide for a 4 string CBG. Not sure if I will be using it on pinky or ring finger. I'll probably have to get a few to try out. Thinking either glass, ceramic, bone or ??? other than metal. Not sure if I should get a short/stubby one o
Read more…Hi all,
I thought I'd post a few pics of my banjo uke that I built last year, using a cheap (£12) tambourine from Amazon, an idigbo neck, and hardware from Ebay.
'Loud' is the best word to describe it. I'm in a couple of local uke groups, and this i
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