Cigar Box Nation

Glad you liked the Ghettoborn, man. It was a kick putting this thing together, and having the brethren and sistern go along with the idea. Best part, aside from your stunned look in Dan's delivery vid, and the obvious joy oozing from your fingers when you cranked it up, was having Dan tell me Harrison had just sold it "out from under us" on Facebook, all the while Harrison was telling me he'd jsut told you it had been sold. Hope to meet you next summer, if the baseball gods decree 1) my son makes his travel team next spring, and 2) we manage to win our way through Poland. If that happens, we'll be in Williamsport in August; woudl love to drive down and meet you, share a beer, and jam.

Hi Shane,

  Hope things are going well.  I was a boss and manager for 30 plus years.  I am much happier the past few years as just another worker (and better yet, just part time.)  I hope the same increase in peace and calm goes to you.

   Nice new builds.  Good luck on em. 

I was at the last show in York Pa. & loved the National Anthem you did. Where can I get a copy of it for myself?

Oscar.

I was at the last show in York Pa. & loved the National Anthem you did. Where can I get a copy of it for myself? Oscar.

No probs. Shane - requests always welcome

Loved the pics Shane. Congrats on such a well presented collection!!

http://www.cigarboxnation.com/photo/get-a-bloody-haircut-d

Hello,

Built my first fretless Cigar Box well kinda its not a cigar box more of a old metal first aid kit i found

anyway what would you recommend for string setup as far as the hight from the neck to the strings mine are pretty high havent meassure them yet for accuracy but their around 1/2 inch or so and by doing this do you think it will interfear with the slide thanks

Hello Shane,hows it going in the U.S.A. it's pissing down with rain here in Malvern U.K. My friend in England also called Shane is building me a flying vee guitar he also built me a cbg using a dog bowl as a resonator,with humbuckers,the guitar has got amazing sustain when played on a amp with the dirt on.ive also got a divstik and a dulcimer which is a little strange to play. Anyhow must go best wishes Ken

shane-

great seeing you play last night, glad i got a chance to talk to you a bit.

thanks for the cds, i'll pass one along to my friend.  we gotta get you to frederick md, where the bikers drink alongside the NPR crowd!  

cheers, amigo!

Hello! My name is Kevin M. Kraft, founder of the annual Kansas City Cigar Box Guitar Festival. This year's event will take place on August 26th, and once again I am accepting cigar box guitars and cigar box guitar-related donation, which will be raffled off during the festival, the proceeds to benefit Kansas City's Blues in the Schools program. If you have a guitar, accessory, CD, DVD--anything related to cigar box guitars that you would like to donate, please contact me at the Cigar Box Nation or email me at kevinmkraft@juno.com  to learn where to send it.

Thanks for you time and consideration.

- Kevin

http://www.cigarboxnation.com/events/the-2nd-annual-kansas-city-cig...

Hi Shane!

 Good to har from ya!! Hope all is well. Things are heating up over here, who'da thunk? 

Czeck it out, I'm building some guitars for Rick Springfield!  What a crazy world eh? 

Hope you have a great Holiday Season!

Hello, friend! Nice to find you here.

Any chance of coming out west to Eugene,Oregon?

The McDonald theatre or in summer ,The Cuthbert Ampitheatre is awesome,Or even John Henry's .Would love to see ya roast it up here.

Thank you for accepting my friend request. I am new to the cbg world and i am loving it. I look forward to buying and/or building many cbg's and playing the blues :)

thanks shane .

Hello Shane

I was wondering if you are going to play at the first cap in york sometime soon

Shane,

is there any chance we can see some live concert footage from the "Dive Bar Tour"?

the best,

Wichita Sam (one of your greatest fans)

Hey Shane,

I have become a big fan of yours, and lots of others on here, over the past couple of years. Congrats on the record deal and all that comes with it.

I once saw a video of yours on YouTube where you had one of your "chugger" CBGs... it was a 3-stringer if memory serves... but the neck was a shovel handle.  I think it had eye-bolts for tuners.  It sounded and looked so cool, and I was so inspired by it (wanting to try making one like it and hoping it sounded half as good). But I can't seem to find the video or any pics of it anywhere.

I have seen your signature 6-stringers like it, but thought I would ask to see if you had a recollection of the style I am referring to, and might could steer me in a good direction on it. Thanks in advance (and thanks for all you've done and continued to do).  

Best Wishes,

_Brian_ 

Hi Shane,

great Job. Really. Congratulations from France :)

Nicolas

Hi Shane!

Thought you might recognize my profile pic. 

Thanks for being a friend and thanks for all the great music.

I can't wait to hear what's next!

Kevin

http://www.cigarboxnation.com/photo/sssob022015mclearys

shane i left a post about a guitar i just bought from an old school friend that builds them he tuned it for dadf# and used the top 4 strings not the middle ones can i return it safely with theses same strings or should i swap them out for the middle strings? to go regular 4 string cigar box? it's like his brothers play and he just builds them and more set up to something i don't know much about anyway... dadf# ...

Love the music. Love the CBGs. Now if I can only drag someone into this with me.......

We had a blast Shane at the York PA CBG festival, nice set by the way and tossing the CBG at the end was epic....We'll see you next year....Cheers

Hi, Shane.

This is probably going to come across as a bit stalkerish or a weird thing to do. I just wanted to leave a comment on your wall to say 'thank you' for all the encouraging things you do to help beginners like me along the road. I first heard about cigar box guitars when I saw your videos on YouTube and I've watched many of them now. I believe I heard about CigarBoxNation through your videos and subsequently joined just a few days ago. It has to be said that not only are you responsible for my love of CBGs but you've given me this gift when I needed it most. I'm currently making a variation on your free plans for the lapsteel guitar that you have posted here on CBN too. So, thanks very much for doing what you're doing in encouraging so many people and best of wishes to you and yours.

Dani :)

Hey Shane , what Pick up you think is good for a rezo guitar?  Thanks

Hey there Shane.

Just wanted to let you know that WDVX.COM  Has been playing Sea Sick Steve on their playlist!

You will love that station for sure!!!

Btw when you talk to Glenn ask him if he uses the telephone harp mic i made for him. Low fi sound for sure would sound great in that little pigeons amp!

Take care hope to see you at York Emporium!

Hey Shane, just watched your FB broadcast with demos for the new album. Sounds like some real good songs! It was cool to notice the head of the Gus banjo peeking from behind your right elbow. I'm half way through making a very similar one for some upcoming shows. Take care.

Jim 

Hey Shane,

Thanks for the very kind words and for inspiring me to start building in the first place.

Shane

I think your comments on the Cigar Box Guitar movement and festivals are timely. This year for the first time I started considering going to a CBG Festival, so I have been watching a reasonable number of You Tube CBG festival videos. I have also searched the internet for more info on the various festivals.

Some background may be helpful. I made the jump from the old Yahoo Group to Cigar Box Nation back in 2008. I built my first CBG that year (using the Bill Jehle video as a guide) and have been having fun building cigar box style guitars over the years (probably around 20). With the exception of the octave uke featuring 3D printing that I posted for Uketoberfest, I have not been posting my more recent builds. I do regularly follow the pictures posted and watch some of the videos when they look interesting (yours always make the cut) including CBN TV (but not via FaceBook).

Why would I, or anyone else, go to a Cigar Box Guitar Festival?

I can think of 4 reasons:

1. To see others play cigar box guitars
2. To see and try out other makers instruments (and buy parts!)
3. To interact with other CBG enthusiasts
4. To attend a workshop to improve my building or playing skills

With these reasons in mind, how to the existing CBG Festivals measure up?

After searching the internet, I have to say I really don’t know.

Reason 1: It seems playing slide is very popular, but that doesn’t really appeal to me. I’m a rhythm 6-string guitar player and have experimented with various 4-string guitar tunings over the years with not much success until this year with my octave ukulele tuning. My success with 4-string CBG style short scale basses have kept my building over the years. I haven’t really given 3-string CBG’s a serious try, but a John Nickel You Tube video changed my mind on what is possible playing rhythm, so it is now on my to build list. At this point the draw of the players at the festivals is not very strong.

Reason 2: I really would like to check out other builders guitars. There is a big difference between seeing pictures of guitars and handling them. I would say playing them, but I’m a lefty and I don’t expect the situation to be any better than any normal guitar store (dismal!!!). That’s just the way it is though. Hopefully, there would be CBG parts for sale. It’s hard to say what the CBG vendor situation will be at the various festivals.

Reason 3: It would be fun to interact with other CBG enthusiasts and I would imagine this would not be hard to accomplish at any of these festivals.

Reason 4: It’s really hard to determine if any of the festivals feature builders or players workshops. It doesn’t seem to be a priority.

The info I have been able to track down on the various festivals is sketchy at best. Nevertheless, I am seriously considering the Huntsville Festival in June 2017 (a long journey from Washington State) because it is the longest running and there is a cigar box guitar store there. The other possibility is the CBG Festival in Oregon, definitely more convenient from a travel perspective. I haven’t been able to find out much information on it.

Playing instruments I have made is very satisfying and Cigar Box Nation continues to be a source of inspiration to me. I am the music team leader at my local community church. I lead half of the time on my 6-string guitar and play bass the other half with my CBG style basses. I would like to lead with a CBG style guitar, but I have not been able to win the team over yet! I will keep trying though. Who knows? Maybe my next one (I have a dozen Snake Oil Humbuckers on order from CBGitty) will make the cut!!! With my octave ukulele tuning I can play pretty much any worship song I know (extensive uke chord charts and chorded songs are plentiful), along with some folk, rock, and pop songs I am fooling around with.

Since CBG style guitars

Shane

My last paragraph was clipped.

Since CBG style guitars can play pretty much any style music, maybe our CBG festivals should be summits that focus on equipping builders and players to infiltrate all the other music festivals out there with CBG mojo!

Doug

Good choices for instrument of the day.  Some good stuff getting built.

Shane 

i was surfing the internet and found a video you made about creative way to hang your cigar box guitars??  it was an invite to share creative ideas on hanging CBG's  - i cant find that video anywhere... can you send me the link ??  puckettcbg@gmail.com

thanks man...