My first Cigar Box Guitar build will begin this week, but this past weekend, I started working out some issues with this wacky "Electric Racket" guitar.
This is not really a "serious" design (obviously) but I do plan on having some fun in experimenting with different pickups, including the cheap single coil (pictured) and a couple of older humbuckers that I…
Added by Darren Addy on June 23, 2014 at 6:55am — 1 Comment
Are you interested in giving bright brass that aged look? How about MULTIPLE ways to do it?
http://blog.yourstruli.com/2008/06/giving-brass-that-aged-look.html
Note: See if your item is truly brass or only brass COATED. Brass coated items may be stripped down to the base metal by some of these processes.
You can take brass all the way down to BLACK, if you so…
ContinueAdded by Darren Addy on June 9, 2014 at 10:30am — 6 Comments
This blog post is part self-motivational speech. If I am honest about myself, I know that I love to learn new things and understand things fully but actually finishing a project is not my strong suit. Sometimes I like to see all the lights turn green before I leave my driveway. It's really dumb when you put it into words like that.
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Sometimes the pursuit of knowledge comes at the expense of actually putting that knowledge to work and learning about the how the theoretical…
ContinueAdded by Darren Addy on June 6, 2014 at 12:30am — 11 Comments
Somehow this wonderful rabbet hole escaped me until recently, but I'm disappearing down it fast. I don't even play (yet) but I'm very interested to learn 12 bar blues slide on a three string of my own making (in the planning and parts accumulation stage now).
My personality type is 1/2 artist & 1/2 scientist, so you can imagine how Cigar Box Guitars tickles my fancy in so many ways...
I see a guitar as I see a wonderful meal. The better the quality of the ingredients, the…
ContinueAdded by Darren Addy on June 5, 2014 at 6:34am — 2 Comments
CBN and CBG newbie here. Just trying out adding a blog post to see where it shows up, etc. This site is SO RICH that I'm sure I haven't scratched the surface of all of the knowledge and inspiration to be found here.
See my next post for a little "about me".
Added by Darren Addy on June 5, 2014 at 6:21am — 4 Comments
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