Barnes & Noble Bookstores all around the country are having a Mini Maker Faire in their stores this Friday, Saturday and Sunday Nov 6 thru 8. They have one hour presentations by any hobby group so that they can sell their books on the subject. B&N s
Read more…I just built a 21 inch SL Octave Mandolin (GDAE, 1 octave below a Mandolin) and I found the string sizes on blogs. I ended up using the strings from a set of Fender 150XL/012. .053E string tuned up G; .042D D; .024G up to A; and .012E E. DAE are g
We have scheduled the CBG meeting at the Strum Shop in Roseville, CA on Sunday, July 21st, from 1 to 4pm.
We will have a guest speaker, Rand Moore from China, so review his page on CBN prior to the Git-together and if you are like me, you will have
Read more…A friend wants me to build him a cigar box bass with a short neck. Shorter than the 34" scale length of his Pbass and use regular electric guitar bass strings, because that is what he is used to. I took him to our local uke shop and he didn't like
Read more…The plans for the 2nd ever Sacramento Area CBG Get-together are coming together.
We will have a show & tell for you to showoff your new CBG or CBU.
Tommy Young (washtub bass) will give a class on playing chords on the 3 string CBG tuned GDg or DAd, s
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