Hi my name is Ross I'm from Galway in Ireland. I have just joined the site and already love it! I have made a couple of biscuit tin lap slides and couple of wooden box lap slides I'm currently working on my first fretted CBG and I'm finding this site
Read more…Hi, I am a total newbie with CBG. I played a little with a guitar long time ago and now have a strong wish to play an instrument. Seems to me CBG is a great and cheap way to do that in a unique way. Hope I will learn from you guys and girls. All the
Read more…My name is Rob - and I'm a Blues fan. I grew up in Memphis back in the glory days. When I retired a couple of years ago I decided to learn how to play the music that I love. I've got Fenders, Peaveys, imports, domestics, Teles, Strats, P basses,
Read more…Hi building first cigar box - anyone know where I can purchase the parts in the UK?
Read more…My name is John and I am from deep East Texas. I have not built anything yet and to be truthful until a couple of days ago I had never heard of a cigar box guitar. I stumbled on a you-tube submission by Red Dog while looking at hog dog clips (hog
Read more…My name is Manu, I'm 25 and I'm from Italy. I've already built a tin-tar, or whatever you wanna call it, few months ago. Now I'm on my next one: it'll be a 3-stringed-chromatic-scale-tin-guitar. Hopefully it'll come out better than the first one. But
Read more…My names Dani I'm a 28 year old male and I'm from a little town just outside Leeds UK. I heard Seasick Steve back in 2006 and fell in love with his music and I set myself the task of building a Diddley Bo and in researching this I discovered Bluesbea
Read more…What a cool site! Just recently wanting to get back into music, long after I sold off all my instruments of course. That's OK, 'cause I can't do anything the same way as anyone else. That's why I'm here! Plus an old injury makes playing a "normal
Read more…hello, I'm from Brescia and I just finished my first cigar box guitar.
thanks for all the tricks I learned on this site.
Now I begin to think about the next guitar (... banjo, dulcimer, ukulele ... still do not know) and I have to learn to play.
ciao ci
Hello everyone. I just heard about CBGs recently and since then I have pretty much spent every waking moment building, researching or hunting for boxes at cigar shops. I finished my first one last weekend using an Oliva box. Nothing fancy, but I was
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My name is Sammy and i am a local pickup maker here in Lafayette Louisiana. Me and a friend run a small pickup company called Live Oak Pickups. My Uncle AKA Bairfoot Cajun introduced me to the cigar box revolution. Since then I have become very
Read more…hi,, bought a box, 10" x 8" x 2", now i need a neck, how long should it be 36" ?, never played guitar before or built a cbg, here's a pic of the box,
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Hi, Im Jason Johnson from Eugene Oregon. Ive been building cigar box guitars for about the last year and a half. I usually do 3 or 4 string guitars with single coil pickups in them. Ive done some things like putting 1 bass guitar string and 2 guitar
Read more…Howdy everyone. One String Willie directed me to this site after I purchased some broom wire from him to construct various instruments with.
A buddy & I are putting together a bunch of DIY instruments & mics and we're going to see what kind of recepti
I started building cigar box guitars just a few months ago after starting with one made out of a chocolate tin. Now I'm addicted having found a local tobbacconist that is only too happy to give me the cigar boxes they used to throw away.
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I live in Mcleansville (rural area just outside Greensboro) and I am working on my 3rd & 4th cbg projects right now. Been blowin' blues harp and "playing" ( i say that 'cause i pretty much still suck)guitar for 15+ years and enjoy both bl
Read more…the name is petey twofinger
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a lil bit about me , i lost my middle 2 fingertips on my fret hand to a lawnmower when i was a kid . i can not use my middle 2 fingers to fre
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I found this site after going on the web and doing a search for CBG's after I had seen a homemade banjo in a Homesteading magazine one thing lead to another and I decided to do the CBG instead of the cookie tin banjo for right now. I've been a
Im Tim from Mc Henry illinois, ive been making 3 strings for about 5 months and i just finished my 6th build, and its a 4string! im sitting here w a set of extra light d'adderio strings and im not sure which ones to use...do i go higher or lower on a
Read more…Hi everyone, I'm on the central coast CA (Santa Barbara County). I just joined CBN and am starting my first build tonight. I'm keeping it simple; 3-strings and fretless (for now). I used to do adjustments and minor repair, so I understand a bit about
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