My father and I are two different kinds of craftsmen. My dad grew up on a farm where you did what you had to do with whatever you had. The tools weren’t the best and often not the right ones but he figured out how to get by with them. As a kid I w
Read more…Ok, I've been away for a long time. Life came a calling a while ago and I needed to take care of other things.
So as catch up, I am answering long asked questions that no one probably wants the answers too. The playing isn't any special but when I
Read more…I posted this in the NE group but wanted to make sure anyone who is interested in attending gets a chance.
I am hosting a meet up on Sat Jan 26 at 10 AM in Westminster MA. PM me for details or questions. You can alternatively email me at littlebox
Read more…Hello Nation
I am looking to see what kind of interest there is in a local builders guild. I know in the woodworking hobby there are such things where like minded people pool knowledge and resources to benefit the community as a whole. I would like
Read more…I'm organizing the first meeting of a NE group get together. Who is in? I'm hosting.
I'm thinking an open shop day and show and tell. I'll provide a pizza and soda lunch. Saturday Jan 26 at 10 AM
Contact me through the contact page at Little Box
Read more…Recently started playing slide and have a question for those who build and play.
I built a couple instruments for slide and have carefully cut the frets and set the bridge so that the strings are perfectly level. The idea was to make it easy to make
Read more…Not new to media production in general but am somewhat new to web videos. I got a package today from woot that had a new video camera. So I shot this and uploaded it to youtube and linked it on my profile page.
It is a video showing the making of a
Read more…My supplier delivered my order of Nickel Silver today. I formed a quick cover to see how well the low temperature silver solder works. Then on to the buffing wheel. I'm using #5 soft compound but cannot seem to get the buffing wheel marks out. You
Read more…Finally I got to spend a whole weekend in the shop (A good part of it anyway). First day of spring so first up, cleaning and organizing too then down to work. The best part of today being the first day of spring, I get the garage bay back. Once th
Read more…I am pretty fortunate to live close to a couple of really good exotic lumber companies. Even so, I've have stuck to traditional hardwoods like ash, cedar and sitka spuce for bodies and maple and rosewood for fingerboards. Unfortunate for me however
Read more…Well I finished my project a day early and so had a rare day off. So I spent some time in the shop getting the next series of fret boards done.
Some had expressed an interest so I took some pictures and posted them up on my page at http://www.cigar
Just adding a pictorial post on a few things I've worked out for making this task go smoothly.
Cutting: a rotary tool with a cut off wheel. I use a small clamp on vice and mark the jaw with blue tape to the width I need. Just clamp, cut and repeat.
As the title says, I'm looking for a quantity of say 6-8 of these thin Arsenio boxes for purchase or trade.
Anyone have or know of someone with some of these? I checked a couple of advertisers on the home page and even searched Ebay but didn't find
Up until now, I've just been building instruments for myself. A few weeks ago one of my good friends was intrigued enough with my new hobby to ask me to build him one of his own.
It was kind of bittersweet seeing it leave but it was really great to
I posted a short clip on my profile page. http://www.cigarboxnation.com/profile/folkcafe
Excuse the poor playing. I split my middle finger (on the sharp edge of some broken tile) last week and it isn't quite healed. The recording is strait into my c
