While planning to build a CBG I am reading a lot of theory and I came across a MIT paper about sound hole shapes (https://news.mit.edu/2015/violin-acoustic-power-0210). The paper is for violins, but I think the same principles stand for a guitar. App
Read more…The sound of this is over in the videos...
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Hi, a condensed slide show of the building of a Parlor guitar. The top is Cedar, and the back and sides are New Guinee Rosewood as is the neck with a Rosewood fingerboard.
The accompanying music is me playing that same guitar.
Read more…I am trying to find any video where someone has taken the 3 lowest strings (E, A and D) from a full set and then put them on an acoustic cigar box guitar and tuned them to DAD or EBE. I would want to know what they would sound like. Do you know about
Read more…When I built my first CBG it was fretless and I enjoyed the process of, at least, getting a reasonable tune out of it. I have since built a fretted version but I’m having trouble getting to grips with it. My problem is that I have very small, arthrit
Read more…I've always been fascinated with the sitar. The buzzing, droning and string bending sounds are unlike anything out there. If the Beatles used sitar, I wanna use sitar!
Recently, I replaced the bridge on a cigar box guitar with a real sitar bridge
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I'm thinking it is more mandolin than guitar, and that it was built as a functional theater prop.
Read more…I am middle age man seriously considering to build a 3 stringed CBG. I have a couple of questions about tuning.
When I was young I used to play a normal acoustic guitar. Since then my voice has been changing so much that almost every single song I ha
Read more…I'm getting a ot of string noise playing slide through my amp. Can someone recommend better strings?
Read more…This is my 11th build, but the first one I've actually sold (sort of). I offered to build one as part of a fundraiser for St Judes Children's Hospital, and this is what the auction winner settled on. He wanted a 3 stringer with a humbucker, tuned E
Read more…hi again, Iam building a electric cbg and added springs again, thinking it would make good vibration around the the metal bowl and added another spring on a howled out spacer glued to the bottom, I’ll stop with the spring stuff after this build.I hav
Read more…For a few reasons, in particular a bad experience with a former member, I've had, little, or no input on these pages for quite a while. With the demise of Anonymous Pick I sort of thought that my attitude was just a bit selfish, whilst I have little
Read more…it has been about 2 or 3 years since I was last on here. with running my own business never had time to bother with cbg's. now that I've finally retired at the age of 70 going onto 71 in a months time. now I'm having to learn what was lost inactiv
Read more…Hi, do I need more work? …….no thanks.
The instruments that get left to me for whatever reason are piling up, even though I constantly pull one off the shelf when I can, in a quiet moment, and restore them. I then move them on to those who can use a
So, I just recorded a really lofi CD of early American songs and one original. I have a skiffle band using only a 2 string cbg and a one string bass and a washboard. All acoustic played into my audacity program. I use the mike in my computer and only
Read more…Hi, what prompted me to share this post was that whilst collating/reorganizing “stuff” accumulated over many years around my workplace, I recalled a post by Infirmary Citrus President suggesting the need for a hypothetical manual that could possibly
Read more…has anyone found a way to eliminate the lingering aroma from empty boxes?
Read more…Recently finished my 1st CBG. I cannot play a lick (yet) but my neighbor says it sounds great. I installed a Junior Disc-O-Tune piezo according to Gitty’s instructions (attached to the top under the bass string and not touching the neck). It has a lo
Read more…Due to my recent battle with esophagus cancer , I will no longer be able to work on my guitars and continue running the swamp witch guitar empire .
HOWEVER ….. Have no fear !!!!
You will still be able to get the swamp witch brand guitars that
Read more…Do anyone have a pdf of the CB Gitty two-string bass instructions?
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