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Selling The Blues Lagoon, 4-String Reso. • 9.5" Biscuit Cone • '61 Falcon cone cover

Started Mar 2, 2019 0 Replies 0 Likes

I'm selling one or two of my resos (trying to raise funds to buy a side bending machine),The details, photo, and video, are below, but this guy is an extremely fast player and very loud even unamped…Continue

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"Great sound!!!"

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Up On Gypsy Hill

"Wow . . . I haven't been on this site for many moons either . . . and when I swing by I find a new song by the one and only KnotLenny. How ya been . . . i didn't know any of us folks from the old days were still around"

Apr 15, 2020

Blind Doughboy replied to Josh Thompson's discussion Store Front

"I'd advise against it if you're planning on just selling cigar box guitars. Low profit margin and lack of demand (amidst the general population) are not a successful combo. I know a bit about Branson and Eureka Springs. I've written…"

Aug 12, 2019

Blind Doughboy replied to Wichita Sam's discussion Garage Sale Silvertone, Amp-in-case...lucky me.

"Everyone realizes that this thread is more than five years old . . . right?"

Jul 29, 2019

Blind Doughboy replied to Wal Callaby's discussion We build guitars

"Great work! Oak is highly underrated as a tone wood, as are ash and birch. I sometimes like to get conspiracy minded and decide that the only reason such cheaper woods are given lesser status in the guitar world is because the profit margin is…"

Jun 30, 2019

Blind Doughboy commented on Poorness Studios's video

Aint No Sunshine on CBG

"That was well done. Nice rendition"

Jun 27, 2019

Blind Doughboy replied to Wal Callaby's discussion We build guitars

"Agree 100% There is a lot of hype that comes from guitar companies . . . just like there's a lot of hype that comes from car companies, food companies, sports companies, or any other industry under the sun. Moreover, if we're being…"

Jun 27, 2019

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How did you learn about Cigar Box Nation?: Early member of the original Yahoo CBG group

How many instruments have you built so far?: a couple hundred

What do you find most interesting about cigar box guitars? (If you do not enter something meaningful here (at least one sentence long), your membership may be rejected as a spam/bot fake account).: building and playing

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(Get Your Kicks On) Route 66 • A Demo of the Trapezoid, Resonator Guitar

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