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At 5:37am on November 26, 2012, Tom Lauten said…: Hi Andy, I knew there must be another CBG obsessed nutter in the Highlands!

Much to my wife's utter horror I'm sure!

At 4:38pm on October 27, 2012, erik brena said…: Hey Andy. I combined the Ruby with the Noisy Cricket. The two circuits are basically the same with a few component value differences. Its an easy circuit to build on vero-board too.

~Erik

At 2:46am on March 19, 2012, Mark C said…: Hi Andy

It wasn't me that hacked the cassette player, it was Smojo as I say in the credits. But, I think it kind of goes like this: dissconnect the motor, you don't need it. Fit a 1/4" guitar socket somewhere. Dissconnect the wires that come from the tape heads and reconnect them to the 1/4" socket. That's about it. If that's not right, my apologies. Even though I've not yet had a go myself, I do know it's pretty simple in theory. The tricky bit, I believe, is just getting at components, and u won't know what you're dealing with until you get the back off your player. I haven't checked, but there may be a hacking group on the Nation somewhere. All the best.

At 5:01am on March 11, 2012, jala said…: for the motoguitar it's not me the autor, thats the man and his passion

living in the94 val de marne france

his site: www.luthier-amateur.com/gruau

At 2:45pm on February 8, 2012, Paul Gibson said…: Hi Andy, thanks lol, i wanted to start my own guitar company but the name has already gone lol !

At 2:28am on December 18, 2011, alan payne said…: Thanks Andy, I live in Lossiemouth.

At 11:49am on December 1, 2011, bemuzic said…: thanks Andy, glad you got it ok : -)

At 6:16am on October 31, 2011, Donald Jack said…: Hey, Andy, good to hear from you. I saw a CBG in the music shop in church street a couple of weeks ago and thought, shucks, I should try making one. Just Bout completed second and well hooked.
Donald

At 9:43am on September 8, 2011, Mike Bingham said…: Hey Andy,

Thanks for the comment on my first kalimba build. Yew the metal is for pinging. The metal strips are played with the thumbs to get a music box type sound from it. Here's a link to a video showing a talented player playing a kalimba. (It's not me playing.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgrM0QU_S7U

At 9:49pm on August 17, 2011, Elmar Zeilhofer said…: thx for your commennt Andy :-)

At 12:43pm on August 17, 2011, David Tutterrow GutBucketGuitars said…: Hey, Andy. Not much on this end. Just building and trying to learn to play the darn things. How are things over there? Staying out of trouble I hope.

At 3:17am on August 14, 2011, Carl Howe said…: Cheers bud guess where im heading off to , after i knock off work in the morning lol yep my local guitar shop to start my new path on the cbg oh n dissmantle a chep pallet lol. Many many thanks looking forwards to this.

At 2:44am on August 14, 2011, bemuzic said…: thanks Andy, yep there are more in the pipeline : -)......

At 1:39am on August 14, 2011, Carl Howe said…: Lol thanks bud,im all new to this CBG so any tip advise would be most welcome. I seen a you tube vid of one of the members off here who made a one sting diddley bow n thought wow i can do that lol just need a plank of wood an old tabbaco tin a string n pick ups but not sure about the pick ups to put in a tin oh and im a lefty but seeing as how bemuzic played it with a stick n a slide i guess that does not matter.

At 10:48am on August 9, 2011, Keni Lee Burgess said…: Thank you Andy for joining my group. Feel free to write if you have any questions. Please check out my instructional video CDs. Enjoy your practice.

http://shop.ebay.com/njmikeb/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_trksid=p3686

At 2:31am on August 6, 2011, Uncle John said…: Andy, Thanks for your comments on Milk Cow Blues. I just looked through your photos. I like a lot of your stuff. Like your builds and you give me artist envy. I played my one remaining 4 string mandolin yesterday. It has never been 'right'. I am doing several simultaneous projects and one is long scale mandolin. Probably 18-20 inches, but tuned natural GDAE. Maybe the longer scale will help me get better intonation.

At 10:58am on July 26, 2011, bemuzic said…: ah right it's two poles!..thought it was just one piece. Yeah the Meranti I got was from some offcuts at Ridgeons. £3 and I can get two necks out of it so I thought that was a bargain?!

At 11:19am on July 16, 2011, Dion Bilalis said…: i hope you had a good time here!! well yes the cartoon is awsome!! Seems like hard times are part of the procedure...Thanks for your sympathy though...