Old Cigar Box Diddley Bow given to me by a fellow vendor at Junkstock last week. Built by Faye Kempton on Feb. 8th 1921. It's in rough shape but I'm gonna brace her up and do the necessary fix up's to make it a player again....then I'm going to give it back to him.
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Historic restoration Bet that Old wood will sound great Fine Job Maddog
Yup.
Nice find MD, go slow with the old girl and she'll suprise you in the end.
Thanks Pick! :-)
Thanks AGP!
Started glueing and bracing yesterday........gonna take a while as the box is in rough shape. Tackle each crack and weak spot one at a time.
"Yep", Nice Gesture & Great Relic Build.
regifter !!
;-) but in a good way . ;-)
Thanks Wes!
I'm looking forward to getting started on this.......just gotta find the time now :-/