My First Build!!
Just got my hand's on this lovely antique cigar box! Can't wait to drill hole in it and add some strings!
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Beverly East Yorkshire Blues Festival
Hi I Have just found out today about a blues festival taking plac in Beverly,East Yorkshire in October,A good place to put the cigar box guitar in the spot light in East Yorkshire. I actually belong a ukulele group at the Sun Inn Beverly that meet t
Read more…Beverly East Yorkshire Blues Festival
Hi I Have just found out today about a blues festival taking plac in Beverly,East Yorkshire in October,A good place to put the cigar box guitar in the spot light in East Yorkshire. I actually belong a ukulele group at the Sun Inn Beverly that meet t
Read more…Attention Northerners!!! Hollowbelly & ChickenboneJohn 7th July, Barnsley
Hi good people, Hollowbelly is "Going Back Up North" (OK, so Barnsley is the wrong side of the Pennines for Mr HB...) fitting in a rare UK gig into his increasingly busy international schedule. Support from ChickenboneJohn.
7th July, The Polish Cu
Read more…latest build
Hi guys judt finished this three string witrh flat poiuckup from Austria love the sound.Mal (Hull)
Read more…Rochester Sweeps Workshops
Hearty congratulations to Malcolm Wright for running HGMC guitar making workshops at the Rochester Sweeps Festival. Apparently it was so successful that they want us back next year...to do the workshops with more people, playing workshops and an eve
Read more…practice amp
Any guys in the uk making cb bluesy amps,but need to have volume and tone plus ear phone socket.Please contact me Mal(Hull)
Read more…Soldering stations
Can anyone recommend a decent soldering station that's reasonably priced?
I've come to the conclusion that I need something a bit better than my trusty simple soldering iron. A simple iron has been fine for guitar circuits but I'm struggling to do a
Read more…Free CBG Podcast
FREE Cigar Box Rock Podcast available at http://leadfoott.podbean.com/ Its the first part of a two part series. It the series covers all the tracks on the album I've recorded with Fast Fingers Kevin The Bass-ment Dore. I give a little insight into wh
Read more…Tinqui8 UK Tour May 2012
For those of you who are thinking May is looking a little dull, we have some excellent CBG news...
Tinqui8 and Chickenbone John will be playing a select few dates in just a couple of weeks time.
If youre in the area, I can recommend catching them liv
Read more…News from HGMC - Hollowbelly featured in TV pilot show with Gordon Ramsey!
Yes folks you read that right! HGMC have been approached by an independent film producer to take part in a TV pilot..and of course, we've put our best man on the case...the one and only Hollowbelly.
The show will feature 6 acts, and is called "The
Read more…new cgb
been looking to buy another cgb i have a 3 string bought from chickenbone john at the north east guitar show its very good looking to find another uk builder to buy one from , any info would be most welcome thanks alan
Read more…what strings??
ok, this is probably out there somewhere but . since i started building these things i've been using d'addario strings, mainly because a set was left at our house after a party,and they sounded great. anyhoo i now have a bunch of 1st 2nd n 6th strin
Read more…bone slides
i went to St Johns restaurant today and had fergus's signature dish of roasted bone marrow, which was so tasty. but i took the bones home. wondering how i go about turning them into slides. any ideas?
Read more…Selling in shops
Hi there,
Is there anyone who has experience selling guitars in shops?
I've got a local shop interested, but I'm not sure how to go about it in terms of payment etc.
Do you do a contract?
Do they pay you when they sell one?
What cut do they take?
Read more…Left hand build underway but hit a snag.
Hi all. New first time poster here but I've been 'lurking' on this excellent site for a while and am hooked.
I'm currently in the process of building a left handed six string for a mate's 60th birthday in early May. It's based upon an old Amplion 35m
Read more…StumbleCol @ the New Cross Inn
i am pleased to announce that StumbleCol have agreed to play at my SHELTERBOX charity gig on the 7th of April at the new cross inn (south london). it is also a bit of a knees up for my 40th birthday so there will be cake.
so anybody who missed them a
Read more…My builds so far
Hi Guys,
I thought that I would just share my builds with you.
As the snow comes down AGAIN!! up here in Yorkshire.
Dave
Read more…Great Site
Just a little "Heads Up" for you guys.
If you are looking for a great site for lyrics/chords/tabs etc.
I would highley reccomend you Google "CHORDIE"
I don't know if this site has been mentioned before, but I
have got some great blues lyrics from it.
Read more…Synth hacking?
Inside a synth / electronic keyboard there must be a point where all of the keys are wired to before the sound is put through the chosen effect or patch. If I was to solder a jack plug to this point and plugged in a guitar, would the signal from the
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