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Strings rattle on slide

Brand new to this and in the build of a guitar but bought a Blues box guitar in the meantime to start to learn on. Here is my main issue, I strum an open note then when I put the slide on to play another note the strings vibrate against the slide. I

Introduction and pics of first guitar build

Hi.

I am very new to this whole thing, My nephew told me about these cigar box guitars he had heard about and showed me clips on Youtube. I was instantly hooked on the sound especially the slide so thought I'd have a go at a build and try to learn ho

String selection for a 3 string?

I'm in the process of building my first 3 string. It has an under bridge pickup. I want to tune to GDG as that seems to be the most common for the sound I'm after. I have bought a set of aucaustic steel guitar strings but not sure which of the 6 to p

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Strings rattle on slide

Introduction and pics of first guitar build

String selection for a 3 string?

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