I have about 25 or more of the narrow printed on various species of wood veneer, about 1" wide, fret boards used for making slide ONLY CBG's, diddley bows, etc., some with numbers, some usual dots, a few with PSA on the back and will sell all as a gr
I've been away from this site for a long time due to health problems - Not complaining just letting you all know - My business is has been shut down and the equipment to make these sold and these are left over fretboards printed on REAL wood veneers
I want to make a canjo(e) so I can make custom labels for the cans but have never seen one close up - Is there a bridge in the can that the string goes over that holds the can down on the stick? Any helpful comments are appreciated - D Brooker
For those of you who make you own CD's for friends, etc. Here's a page for a CD holder design I did that can be made from one page of cardstock or whatever - You can download a PDF of the basic pattern - Just thought some of you might find some use f
If you go to my Diddley Bow page http://www.dbrooker.com/diddly.html about half way down there's a link where you can download a PDF of a 23" and 24" fretscale with 24 frets that can be printed out on a single 8 1/2" x 11" sheet of paper - Just thoug
Here's is a link to a webpage on my website http://www.dbrooker.com/songtabs.html where you can down load a PDF that has a few songs tabed out using numbers for each fret to play the note of a song using a single string AKA diddley bow - Some years a
I got another new diddley bow design done - I'm calling it the "Little Buddy" - The scale length is only 17" and the whole thing including the can is only 26" long - I'm suprised at the volume for such a little can - Just thought some of you might b
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I made this diddley bow using a cake pan - the string comes through the bottom of the cake pan, through the 1 x 2, up and over the bridge, over the nut and on to the tuner - the bridge is a metal pipe holder - If you lay the cake pan between your le
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Just thought I'd mention that my "Little Buddy" diddley bow guitar is going to be talked about on on Tom's Guitar Show - It's a TV show that's been going for over 10 years - You can catch the live stream on the website, here's the link http://www.tom
I've been getting questions about my printed veneer fretboards so here's a close up scan - The fretboards are 1" wide, printed edge to printed edge - For reference the ruler is 1 1/4" wide - The top one is cherry and the bottom is birch - I hope thi
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I am offering printed wood veneer fretboards - They are for a 24" scale in 2 designs in either birch or cherry - They are obviously for guitars that are to be played only with a slide - Here's the page link http://www.dbrooker.com/diddly.html - I wil
I manage to cobble this together with what tools I have on hand - The body is a scrap 2 x 4 and the can is attached to the side of it - I used one of my printed wood veneer 24" scale fret boards and a custom wood veneer label for the can - I'm guess
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I added my printable on a 8 1/2" x 11" sheet of paper my 24 1/2" scale in a PDF so there shouldn't be any problem with printing it out - Here's the page link http://www.dbrooker.com/diddly.html - Just scroll down and you'll find the link to the PDF f
I'm please to announce that I am making available to the public real wood veneer that you can print on using a standard laser printer! I've been using this for years and many of you have seen the results on some of the diddley bow guitars I have buil