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Bridges

Does anyone know how the size, weight and type of material used for your bridge affect intonation? If you use something too big and heavy does it deaden the sound.?

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Cookie Tin Diddley Bow

Hey guys, I'm currently working on my third diddley bow build, and I need a little bit of advice. I've built one diddley bow from a cigar box and one using a gourd, but the one I am currently working on will use a cookie tin that my daughter gave me.

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First stringed instrument build!

I of course have decided on a Bow Diddley. Trying to use what is in the shed and Found an old old box and bamboo torch. How much of the sound is transfered through the arm is my first question? Also has anyone thought of using bluetooth Technology

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My first Diddley-Bow!

Hello folks! I wanna show my first Diddley Bow guitar.

Firstly, I live at Vladivostok, Russia (yep, it's not common in our region to make cigar box guitars). Mainly that's why the body of my guitar is not a cigar box, but a crafted by myself box from

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