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Here's a short tab for the Pink Floyd riff from Money as played on a four string CBG tuned to open G. The Beginning letters represent the tuning. Low string represented on the bottom as in traditional tablature.
Hi All
Here are the tabs for my latest lesson 'Bluegrass Cigar Box Guitar'. Will be posting up more videos on this topic. Watch this space....
Download tab here: Bluegrass%20Cigar%20Box%20Guitar%20Lesson%20%E2%80%93%20Joe%20Cribb.pdf
My cigar box guitar lessons playlist is HERE
If you enjoy my lessons please take a look at my latest releases and music here: http://joecribb.bandcamp.com
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Keep on keepin' on
Joe Cribb :)
Road in front of my house was frozen solid during that bit winter weather the South got a couple of weeks ago. I threw together a sled...took longer to walk to the shop and back than to build. Fun was had by all for the rest of the day and part of the next. Not a bad use of 2 scrap pine 1x2s and 3 leftover cabinet cuts.
Finished this custom build for a customer. Used a My Father's Cigars Box, which I have come to like very much. It has a lot of tone. The neck is aspen and the fingerboard is curly maple. Finished in tung oil. Pick up wound to 9.5 ohms.
I would love to hear about peoples ideas or inventive ways on.. what or ..how they make their tail pieces... :)
Thank you:)
I've finished my very first guitar!
She's a beauty, and she sounds great. The through-body neck is one solid piece of hard maple. The box is a CAO box with the markings scratched off, to be a little more kid friendly. I got the parts from C.B.Gitty at the 2013 CBG festival in York, Pennsylvania.
I carved the neck with the draw knife in that picture - bit by bit until it felt perfect in my hand.
She sounds amazing unplugged, but will scream power cords when plugged into an amp. Here's a video of me backing up a friend of mine on his electric!
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10101012514914056&l=5065029016687675455
Une petite révélation Mercredi soir en allant voir Simon Abkarian & the rhythm men au Balajo! Il y avait en "guest" deux grecs qui jouaient Misirlou popularisé par Dick Dale, d'ailleurs si quelqu'un connait le nom de ces deux musiciens...
Misirilou est en fait un vielle chanson grecque des années 20
Qui de plus se joue avec un Bouzouki instrument grec à 3 doubles cordes accordé en open D : ré - la - ré
A vos cigarboxguitar !!
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misirlou
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouzouki
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6mfdTIrYnQ
Décidément ces grecques auront tout inventé!
La mythologie, la géométrie, les soirées guerriers, la philo et Misirlou!!!!!!!
Je propose qu'au nom de son apport à culture mondiale on délivre à chaque grecque ne siégeant ni au parlement ni au gouvernement, une pension mensuelle de 1500 euros, délivrée par Bruxelles!!
Et qu'on leur foute le paix bordel!!!!
This was my 10th guitar, and my first serious attempt at a 4 stringer:
I was never really happy with it: the box I had made (out of 6mm ply and 3mm sapele for the soundboard) was big and a bit unwieldy, I had also originally intended to have only 9 holes on either side but unfortunately a beer and drill related accident meant I had to add more to make it symmetrical.
I also had a couple of problems with this guitar - the neck was not secured well enough to the box and there was some uplift on the neck. Not a bow in the wood as such, but it was making the action uncomfortably high. I also managed to leave it leaned against an external wall in very cold wet weather, and the damp made the soundboard all spongy and raised the grain on the neck. You could say I had some bad luck with this build.
I worked on a couple of other projects for a while and came back to this one, with the intention to rebuild the box. I started by making a pickup for it:
Well, I made a couple of pickups... the one on the right is obviously the one for the 4 stringer. I used a scrap of oak from the fretboard for the top of the bobbin. 6400 wines of 42AWG and alnico 5 magnets. I was going for a nice mellow tone on this one so I didn't want to overwind.
I had a couple of pre-made plain craft boxes left over so I planned to use on of those. The only problem is they don't sound good (very thick lid etc). I planed off the original lid and made a new one out of the same solid sapele stock I used for the original. I used a bit of Rustin's walnut stain on the box to make it look a bit more interesting.
This pic shows the underside of the soundboard. I glued two 100mm strips together and used 5x6.5mm spruce strips for the bracing. The hole at the top is for the pickup. I added a scrap of 6.5mm thick sapele to act as extra support under the bridge to counter the extra tension of 4 strings.
I glued the new lid on, attached the neck (very securely) to the bottom of the box and finished everything with a few coats of Danish oil.
...and that's the finished article; 4 strings tuned GDgb, 4 pole pickup, volume & tone control.
Sound holes - just 6 this time, I used 6mm inside diameter grommets from a leather craft supplier on eBay. You might notice the magnets are a bit wonky on the pickup. Not intentional! Sounds fine though.
The bridge is made from a scrap of oak from the fretboard and a tiny strip of bone from a guitar saddle blank (I get 4 CBG bridges from one blank). I just use a drill to make the bridge 'arches' and sand it to a point. Volume (A250k) and tone (B250K) control with a .047uF Sprague Orange Drop capacitor. The tailpiece is a bit of sapele with a piece of brass sheet glued to it. The string ferrules are bike spoke nipples. The copper plate is connected to the ground on the back of the volume pot.
I loved working with sapele for this neck. Compared to oak it cuts like butter with a spokeshave and smells lovely. I'll definitely order some next time!
To make this headstock I cut a section out of the top of the neck blank and glued it to the bottom, then shaped it with rasps and sandpaper.
That's it. Now I can get back to playing it!
Rick
Hi guys,
A great slide player and true road warrior was in a car accident recently during the last big snow storm we had on the East Coast. You can go here to see the details: http://www.gofundme.com/6p1kdk
Any help at all will truly be appreciated, even if it's just reposting the link. If you've never seen Eric in action here's a sample of him playing on one of his 7 or so guitars he brings onstage. Thanks!
This post isn't exactly about cigar box guitars, but it's relevant to acoustic musicians in general. I hope you like it!
http://sincerelyiris.blogspot.com/2014/02/my-gear-presented-by-robin-williams.html
Thought i would put up some tabs for my lesson video 'The Claw Grip' part 3. Hope they help. You can download them using the link below
You can find all my lessons on my youtube channel or my cigar box guitar lessons playlist
Have fun...see you soon
Keep on keepin' on :)
Have now set up a bandcamp page to sell my tunes @
Currently working on builds #3 and #4 simultaneously. Was planning on just building a 4 string cigar box uke for my 6yo until my 4yo daughter decided she wanted one too, also requesting 4 strings....so...now I'm building 2 at same time and experiencing small scale production. I have to say, its much more efficient to build this way.
Anyways, a few firsts on these builds for me. Firstly, tried my hand at building my own boxes for these and so far so good. Just cut the boxes open today, Not a perfect cut, but nothing my surface planer couldn't fix. Secondly, I cut and glued my first scarf joints. Built a nice little scarf cutting jig for the table saw (will post pics later). The boxes are made of poplar sides and lauan ply top/bottom. Alder braces in the inside corners.
Got some rough necks glued up so far. Went pretty experimental with the wood choices. Cherry neck. Scarf'd headstock piece is dark walnut. Wings on one head stock is poplar. Alder wood for heel piece. Aspen fingerboard. I chose aspen because i needed a light wood for finger board as i'm planning to color the board with an acrylic wash.. We'll just have to see how it holds up. Its pretty soft wood. Probably gonna have to glue a few frets down.e
My 6yo wants a unicorn themed guitar that is pink and purple. My 4yo daughter whom we adopted from China about 2 years ago wants a Superman themed guitar. I do want to thank DC or whoever created Superman for making one of the greatest superheroes an adopted orphan. My daughter has been in love with superman since she found that out,. Will try to post updates as the build progresses.
Here's Part Two of My License Plate Blog. I hope you like it!
http://sincerelyiris.blogspot.com/2014/02/license-plate-guitar-pt-2-dirty-details.html
1. Wolfclock 2 string cigar box guitar. Mojobone slide
2. Keith Alan 3 string cigar box guitar and Wes Carl suitcase amp
3. Mead 3 string cigar box guitar
4. D.B. Customs 4 string cigar box guitar. Wes Carl suitcase amp
5.Wes Carl suitcase amp. Danelectro effects pedals. Cigar box guitar
6. Snowden 3 string cigar box guitar with Harrison pickup. C.B. Gitty cigar box amp
More senseless SH!+ http://www.cigarboxnation.com/video/triple-lowebow-attack
Then there is this bit of Swamp Witch insanity:
Ok a bit of explaination..this was a custom build I did for a local Blues guitarist who lives on the west coast of Canada. This is a semi-solid body; 12'x17' ; made of old growth cedar and church pew mahogany sides, 1/4" Baltic birch plywood back and 1/8"Ash/mahogany veneer sound board. It has a bolt on neck that I took off a Schecter electric guitar that I was given for parts. The head stock needed redoing as someone had tried to do some "custom" work on. It has single Duncan Seymor humbucker pickup from the same Schecter guitar going to just a 250 ohm volume pot. I used the black volume knob from the Schecter. For the resonator I used an aluminum Jello-mold/cake pan. The bridge is a home made solid mahogany compensated unit. I was having trouble with the intonation so I built the compensated bridge... it works very well. The sound holes are 1-5/8" drains fitted into 1 1/2" drilled holes. The tail piece is a stainless steel spatula which is attached with a 1/4" stainless - 3 inch long stove bolt. Finish is once coat of walnut ploy stain, followed by three coats of clear polyurethane and finished with a couple of coats of a wood finish made by a friend that is made of walnut oil and bees wax. Sounds really good acoustic, but it has a bit of a hum when run through my amp but not that bad.
I posted a film clip on Utube, but can't seem to attache the link.
