About twelve months ago I began clearing a derelict garage in back of our house of decades of festering nastiness, then- during the hottest late summer I can remember- demolishing and hauling away the re-inforced concrete building. In the autumn I pa
Read more…This has been niggling at me for months, and now is the time to raise this in the community. I’m guessing that many of you have, in response to some question or another, replied “I build guitars. Well, actually, when I say guitars I mean cigar box gu
Read more…They seem to be rife in the US, but I can find no mention of any upcoming CBG-related events in the UK. Any clues, anyone?
Read more…Given that the distance between the top and bottom strings on a three-string CBG is about the same as the length of the short axis of a plain-topped humbucker, is there any reason why you cannot mount one vertically rather than horizontally? Aestheti
Read more…Having built a handful of CBGs, a biscuit tin or two (depending on how broad-minded you are), and currently working on my second LPG, I was today pondering the advice of a friend, who said that, rather than crafting necks to fit pre-made boxes, I sho
Read more…There are, I'm guessing, thousands of you out there. You're clearly not all from south of the Mason/Dixon- this spirited venture would appear to encompass the whole of N America and Europe. So- we can't all be playing 12-bars in G, or mournful dustbo
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