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.?
Hey gang, I've been away for far too long. Anyway I need a few canjo or strumbox pickers to check my Tabbing out. I know there are at least 2 Rolling Stones fans out there!!!! Did I do this right??? This sounds right to me but I'd like to be sure.
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.
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
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
Hey guys, I just finished my first attempt ever at a diddley bow. It's electric with a hand wound pickup. Neck is made from an old hickory handle off of a set of post hole diggers. 1920s Cyrilla cigar box, tailpiece made from a bit of copper pipe, br
Would just like to post a few pictures up of my first Diddley Bow. The wood is an old packaging pallet which i took to bits. The boards are 800mm long. I bought an electric guitar pick up on Amazon for a few £ and mounted that into a small off cut of
Before my recent discovery that guitar is a lot easier to play if you get rid of five of the strings, the only instrument I ever learned to play was the harmonica. There are tons of songs at www.Harptabs.com and I got to thinking that it should be ea