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The speaker in the pic is from my work. They were switching out PA speakers and let me have one; they were pitching them anyway. On the left you’ll see a coil of copper wire. Can a person make a pup out of t
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I just bought a radio/cassette tape player at an estate sale. $1.50, half-off from $3.00. I want to convert it into an amp. I've watched some vids that showed the process, and it looks pretty easy. (And the filthy-dirty-nasty sound is AWESOME
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So, here's the thing: I got into CBGs and junk-based stringed instruments (cookie tins, metal boxes, scrap wood, etc.) and I LOVE it! I've made a number of guits, and a few are really nice.
I've also made percussion instruments: tambourines o
Read more…Miss Samantha Fish, totally BRINGIN' IT in an outdoor concert on Sunday night, July 29, 2018 in Wiley Park, Galva, Illinois. I had seen many vids on YouTube of her, but never before in person. I'm an even bigger fan now than before! And her band
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I'm fixin' to graduate from buying pre-wired harnesses to the big people's table and do my own soldering of parts--jack-to-volume-pot, pup-to-volume-pot, etc.--and I don't know what kinds of wire to get. I see two colors often: black and
Read more…So, I was at a yard sale and I bought this really nice hardwood rolling pin. Cheap—$.25. Now: what the heck do I make with it?
Read more…So, my church sold ice cream--floats and sundaes, delicious--at a small-town event. Part of the event was a whole mess of houses in town had rummage sales. Always intriguing for CBG people, right? No less this time. I scored a shot glass slide, a
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I bought an old cassette player/radio at an estate sale (really cheap!) and I'm wondering where/how I start in converting it into a guit amp.
I've seen a few vids of some Australian (?) cat doing it, and he took out the magnetic head that reads
Read more…(Alright all you smarty-pantses and dirty minds, I mean the garden variety hoe, not the other kind!)
So, at a community yard sale last Saturday I bought this really cool-lookin' hoe ($1, bargained down from $2). I figured I'd either use the handle
Read more…Hey--I asked on the chat room, and I'll ask here: I need ideas on what to do with a silverware box I just bought from Goodwill (LOVE me some Goodwill!). It's on the big side. I'm not sure what to make with it, a 6-string, or a bass, or....
If I ma
Read more…The plans for the $20 CBG uke build on this site, the one that has the vid of Shelley playing the first uke she made, has zip ties for the frets.
I'm willing to try that, but I have a concern: How does one get the plastic strip of the tie to lie do
Read more…(I tried to post this earlier, but I can't find it on the board. Sorry if this is a repeat.)
This is a file drawer divider, from my bosses files. He cleaned out his filing cabinets and was pitching a lot of these. I rescued four of them.
They're
Read more…I'm thinking of giving it a try--making my own single coil pickup. I've watched a vid a few times where I guy takes a magnet from a speaker that was in a toy, glues it between two plastic disks that he cuts out to make the bobbin, and winds the wire
Read more…I got a small Bluetooth speaker for my b-day. It came in a clear hard plastic box. I think it has possibilities for a build.
1.) I would need to drill and saw on it to fit parts, and use screws. I speculate that cracking and breakage might be a r
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http://www.mandolincafe.com/ads/106838#106838
I found it in the mandolincafe.com classifieds.
I gotta say--VERY tempting!
Anyone know the builder? Anyone know the history?
Read more…I've started to get interested in building a git with an Altoid tin. I saw them online a long time ago, and I heard a guy play one at a blues fest. Really cool!
One I saw used a piezo, and something about a bottle cap on the piezo.
Anyway, what's t
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My first attempt at building a $20 cigar box uke, per the instructions posted by Shelley Rickey: EPIC FAIL!!
I blame myself entirely! Here's my post mortem:
1.) I used an old pine 1x2 that I found in my basement, left from home improvement pr
Read more…I've been looking in lots of places for a used, even a little beat-up, 5-string banjo neck I can use to put on a cookie tin to make a 5-string cookie tin banjo. I have a 4-string that a friend made for me years ago; I tune and play it as a tenor gui
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