As above, Alternative market & Record fair, Pink Toothbrush Nightclub Rayleigh Essex Sunday 4th December 11:00am till 3:00pm.
Mud N Mojo have a stall there hopefully flogging some CBG's, I been building them quite a few years now & need to thin them
Read more…Hi I acquired a CBG recently and am trying to learn it and at same time I’m learning the harmonica (Diatonic) I also by chance have a number of USA reg plates which it appears I can make into guitars? Do uk members buy from the USA the parts etc or h
Read more…Hi all, just wondering about what FX rigs you have, and hoping for some ideas/recommendations.
I am currently using 2 pedals: an Electro Harmonix double muff, and a Behringer tuner (all going into a Fender Passport mini). Does fine for home use, and
Read more…Starting next week til the end of March in London.
Kicks off with Dollar Bill and Hollowbelly free at the Blues Kitchen in Shoreditch on Weds 20th.
Anyone else going?
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/one-man-band-festival-tickets-43559505654?mc_cid=f00
Read more…I was wondering what make of amplifiers people out there in CBG land are playing and why they bought them.Did you buy a solid state amp or a tube amp? Did you make an amp? Are you happy with it?
If money was no object,what amp do you think would be s
Read more…Just come across a great cigar box for a cbg,but its only 8in x 5in.Solid made and no warning stickers.
I've never used such a small box, and think it would look a bit odd as a standard scale cbg, but I've no experience of anything else.
any suggesti
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I would really like to play some festivals next year. My current festival tastes consist of small (500 tickets max), non corporate fests. I really quite like cider/cowpunk fests.
I am not looking for payment. Hell, I'll even buy a ticket.
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Well after a long time and different incarnations and moving and life getting in the way my new website is now live!
3 strings, 4 strings and 6 strings, promo vids, links to instagram and shop... its all there!
Appreciate anyone w
Read more…Saw today that Gibson have filed for bankruptcy.
Hope that doesn't mean the end of the name.
Maybe it they made CBGs they would be still going!!!
Note to chairman "Bring back the square red Gibson played by Bo Diddley."
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A few pics of my latest build.
Iroku body and neck. Humbucker pup. Frets (first time for me).
And the best bit, a vintage hubcap resonator - love the sound this gives it. I am definitely chuffed with this build.
Just have to learn some chords
Read more…Comment by Rick D 1 second ago
£20 each including postage in uk?
less for more than 1.
27 - 30 cms long, about 14cm wide and 5cm deep
Hi, Couple of pics of my CBG. Saple neck, fretboard American black walnut It's frettless with a humbucker pickup
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First off, if posting recordings of your own songs is frowned upon, then I apologise. Let me know and I'll delete. However, if it is welcomed, then......
A little background to begin. I started making and playing CBGs about 3 years ago. I w
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I love CBGs but have managed to get into it without coming from, or going to, a real big thing for the blues.
I do play live and would like to start adding some classic blues songs to the repetoire.
Any recommendations gladly recieved - I
Read more…Hi guys I was wondering if any of you retiered guy are learning the three string or six string guitars in the East Yorkshire area.My wife bought me a parlour guitar and I start my lessons next week,just thought it might just be a good idea if one or
Read more…I've fallen in love with the idea of CBGs, and I'd really like to build my own. I'm having trouble finding parts and I don't have a ton of tools to build with at the moment, so I'm trying to find something of a "one stop" shop that can either sell m
Read more…Hi guys I'm new to this site and new to building and I was just wanted to know what the little metal things are called that the strings go through at the base. I've added a photo Many thanks
Read more…Lovely morning here, so I went to my local timber merchants, have been going there for years. I got a few fronts and backs for my boxes. You may or may not know, that I have been playing 6 strings for over 50 years, and last year my cervical spine di
Read more…I am new to this but I have a three string, love the tone but I do need to learn to play it.I was never able to play a standard guitar, I used to play blues harp but I am having to relearn that.
Dose anyone instruct in the UK preferably near Birmingh
Read more…Heres one of my latest creations, Ritz casino habana box with a pitchpine neck, oak headstock & walnut fingerboard. Boxwood bridge & horn nut.Tailpiece is a beer pump badge with bracket riveted on underneath. Rod piezo pickup. Im a southpaw so most o
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