Just had an incident happen in my life that really drove home the safety issues when working with any power tools.

A friend of mine died last week from a chainsaw accident.

Sadly it was not necessarily a fatal injury but because he was on his property by himself he bled out leaving two gorgeous angels 18 month and 4 years behind him. 

What is it that I can take away from this tragedy to give it some…

"Bluesboy" played two gigs this weekend curtesy of the "The Big dog blues band" and he also got sold!! Be sad to see that dirtbox go but going to a good home so all well...........jeff

Just finished and delivered "Marky"  please see pics . Nice old box I'd been keeping with a Maple and Walnut neck. Bone Bridge and Penny saddle with my now standard and preffered Alluminium Nut.  Strat style pickup and a sweet sound. Thanks for looking...... Jeff

A Tail of Two Cats ~ By John Bolton

Our sons have long since grown up and moved away. Our two black cats are like children to us now. I think their stories are worth telling.

Elvis came to us first. Linda and I were biking the Raccoon River Trail on a late summer morning. About ten miles out we crossed a gravel road. The trail on the far side had a shady line of trees.…

Hello everyone, the new Bulldog Burnings site:  www.bulldogburnings.com

is now up and running, pop along and have a look see.

I am available for any type of wood burning you need doing.

Either contact me on here or use the contact link on the site to get in touch with me.

Any  comments, ideas or suggestions from you guys would be appreciated.

Let me know what you think of…

We're riding out the Blizzard in Boston and I thought I'd share a weather update with my friends on CBN.

I just needed a good camera name like Chester McCrablaster or Rock Pile Dumbhead or something.

I really love looking at all the pics people post here. But sometimes a bunch will get posted without any description at all. I really like reading about the builds as well as looking at them. Can't be just me?

The following videos have been piling up for some time now. They are all rather long and meandering, from both an audio and visual standpoint, so instead of clogging up the video pages, I've made the odd decision to post them in a blog. The first and second is played with a Smokestack Guitars 4 string cbg, the third and fifth with a Swamp Witch guitar, and the fourth is with a D.B. Customs 3 string cbg.…

Just trying to collect a few different idea's for fret wire materials or markers.

What have you used?

e.g. tooth picks, staples, pyrography, marker pen.......

Back to roots - Retour aux racines

Esclaves et prisonniers sur le sol américain, les africains déportés ont tout perdus, leur liberté, leurs pays, leurs familles mais aussi leurs langues, leurs traditions. ils ont du s'adapter et surtout inventer un autre mode de vie et…

Well I get most of my boxes for free from a local cigar club.  I had agreed to build them a CBG to hang on their wall and to play around with and they will give me empty cigar boxes!  Real nice people there!

So I started with a Arturo Fuente Cigar Box

I thought about using just a straight 1x2 for the neck and building a basic acoustic for them but the more I…

Check out this piece I wrote for Weekly Alibi about Albuquerque CBG builder Hector Pena. Weekly Alibi on Facebook.