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Comment by Paul Craig on October 3, 2018 at 6:33pm

Those are some nice builds John, welcome aboard.

Comment by John Czarnecki on October 3, 2018 at 8:53am

Started building CBGs this spring, so I've been at it for only about eight months or so.  So far I've put together:

1. A 1936 Connecticut license plate guitar on a big cigar box with a slotted head walnut fretted neck.  Piezos under the bridge and license plate.
2. The Black Resonator - a big Camacho cigar box resonator with piezo bridge and a single coil neck pickup, Brazilian cherry neck, onboard preamp, and embedded modded Morgan silver dollar.
3. The Ammo Can guitar - a USGI .30 cal ammo can with a hand-wound humbucker pickup and Brazilian cherry neck, set up for playing with a slide.
4. The Blue Bird - a pie pan resonator using a huge mahogany cigar box, a trapeze tailpiece, modified banjo bridge with embedded piezo rod, and a Stratocaster neck.  
5. Dick's 96, a 1966 NC license plate guitar with 3-string walnut neck, piezo under the bridge, and a single coil mandolin pickup in the middle,
6. Not a CBG - a full-up Stratocaster, with a Canadian spalted maple body with a honeyburst dye job, EMG pickups, David Gilmour electronics package.
7. The Cigar Box Strat - literally a mahogany cigar box with a poplar solid insert that fills the cavity, Strat neck, HipShot locking tuners, two single coils and a Humbucker at the bridge, and a Gotoh traditional tremolo bridge.  This is a work in progress, and I'm hoping to have it done in a week or two.

I was building rifles for a while, and got bored with it, as I found there was no real skill involved.... just like snapping lego pieces together with the occasional tweaking needed.  No fulfillment there at all... so I started making guitars, where each and every piece offers it's own bit of complication that results in a rewarding search for solutions.

I've been plugging away at adding pics of the builds... I'm making an album for each one, but the 10 pic per day limit is a bit aggravating.  Patience, just like I tell my teen daughter all the time.  Patience.

Comment by Paul Craig on September 29, 2018 at 12:01pm

Love the old British Bikes myself and just about any other bike.LOL

Welcome to all the newbies.

Comment by the anonymous pick on September 28, 2018 at 11:17pm

lol.. Kev ,  then ya may like my other passion .  Choppin british 

here's one of mine in iron horse mag . 

Comment by Kevin McMichael on September 28, 2018 at 10:48pm

Yessir Mr pick, thanks! That's my other passion, choppin' Sportsters

Comment by the anonymous pick on September 28, 2018 at 7:56pm

Welcome .. gonna have to go back and  look at the guitar  , I was  too bust checkin out that sexy ass girder barr hoppin chop you got there   Kev ;-)

Comment by Kevin McMichael on September 28, 2018 at 7:46pm

Cool, that's some beautiful country out that way!

Comment by Alex McDonald on September 28, 2018 at 6:57pm

I set up a site on Minds. Its a site which will likely dwarf facebook before long. Sorta similar though. Anyway here it is: https://www.minds.com/groups/profile/884481267287838720

Comment by Alex McDonald on September 28, 2018 at 6:56pm

Yea, no kiddin!   I'm in Rogersville.   About 45 min away.

Comment by Kevin McMichael on September 28, 2018 at 6:44pm

Hey Alex, nice to find someone fairly local here. I'm in Sevierville

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