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  • New Zealand CBG Movement

    New Zealand CBG Movement

    29 members Latest Activity: Nov 4, 2022

    Kia Ora...Somewhere for all CBG people in the land of the long white cloud to get together and talk CBG stuff......

  • Cigar Box Guitar Museum at Speal's Tavern

    Cigar Box Guitar Museum at Speal's Tavern

    90 members Latest Activity: Dec 10, 2021

    Get updates on The Cigar Box Guitar Museum at Speal's Tavern, the world's first permanent museum collection of Cigar Box Guitars.  Speal's Tavern…

  • Lazy B Radio

    Lazy B Radio

    27 members Latest Activity: Feb 2, 2016

    A group devoted to showcasing cigar box guitar musicians and Cigar Box Nation…

  • The Blues Exchange

    The Blues Exchange

    71 members Latest Activity: Nov 20, 2020

    Share your songs, videos, lyrics, ideas for anything Blues.

  • BALALAIKA GROUP

    BALALAIKA GROUP

    15 members Latest Activity: Sep 27, 2015

    Putting a different angle on 3 strings.

  • Greasy's Easy Chords

    Greasy's Easy Chords

    127 members Latest Activity: Aug 26, 2019

    Since i started playing these cbg's i've been wishing i had a chord book. A recent attemp to teach myself music theory gave me the idea to try to…

  • Radios turned Guitar Amps

    Radios turned Guitar Amps

    291 members Latest Activity: Jul 3, 2023

    This is the group for Lo-Watt Rock & Blues.

    Here is the place to post photos and information on how to convert vintage electronics into…

  • Four String Cigar Box Guitars

    Four String Cigar Box Guitars

    213 members Latest Activity: Dec 9, 2023 Group for those who are interested to find out more and swap ideas for builds, chords and tunings for these versatile instruments!

  • Hand built and custom microphones

    Hand built and custom microphones

    85 members Latest Activity: Jan 29, 2022

    thought about how i was using modern mics and effects, mainly distortion and reverb, to record with and it seemed the next step to me was hand…

  • Home Made Resonator Boxes 101, v.2.0

    Home Made Resonator Boxes 101, v.2.0

    232 members Latest Activity: Dec 2, 2022

    Beginning Box Building. Nothing too fancy, but functional. For people who don't have easy access to cigar boxes. Other home made non-rectangular…

  • CBGs Showing Up Everywhere

    CBGs Showing Up Everywhere

    26 members Latest Activity: Dec 3, 2015 Pictures of cigar box instruments being discovered in the most unlikely places.

  • CBN on Skype

    CBN on Skype

    54 members Latest Activity: May 9, 2018

    For members of CBN who want to chat (proper verbal nattering) to each other on Skype. 

  • How have CBG's changed your life??

    How have CBG's changed your life??

    28 members Latest Activity: Oct 16, 2016

    Share how being involved with CBG's has changed or enhanced your life.

  • Shane Speal's 12 STONES

    Shane Speal's 12 STONES

    27 members Latest Activity: Nov 29, 2015 Shane Speal's new album, 12 STONES is on sale.  We thought we'd repost Shane's recording logs & answer questions you have. …

  • Piezo pickups

    Piezo pickups

    202 members Latest Activity: Mar 13, 2022

    All ideas to make piezoelectric

    sound good and stable.

  • Shane Speal Concert Network

    Shane Speal Concert Network

    80 members Latest Activity: Nov 4, 2019

    Shane Speal is now booking performing arts centers, festivals and club shows in the Mid Atlantic US region (Pennsylvania, Maryland, New York, New…

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Flat bucker under box top. Any Success?

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Has anyone tried this? Thoughts?

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just came accross this pickup idea on youtube.

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VIDEO: Building a CBG with limited resources.

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Free PDF Download: Vintage Guitar Effects Plans - 1967 Fuzzbox and 1969 Treble Boost

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Tune up songs

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Duel output jacks

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No Harmonics

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Camera suggestions?

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CBG site issues, continued.

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Anyone used a violin-style tailpiece on a CBG?

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Guitar for the grandson

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Building with vintage paper/pressed board cigar boxes.

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How to Get Your Own Music on Spotify

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Trash Canjo

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Do Measurements Matter?

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There goes the property values...

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I'll be fashionable this summer =)

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Everyone can make CBG. And I did it =)

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.✨. Cover Me ..♪♫•*¨*•. ~ the Delta Blues Outlaws

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Q&A with Arkansas-based talented blues musician Billy Jones, one of the very best authentic modern artists

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Big Power Bank for Small CBG =)

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