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At 1:31am on August 4, 2011, Keni Lee Burgess said…: Mike - Thanks for your interest and question. I am tuned in Vestapol aka Open D tuning, although I tune down a whole step for my voice to the key of C (CGCegc).

At 12:14pm on June 14, 2011, darren brown said…: thanks mike ,this ones sold fars i know, can allways do it agin .

At 7:10am on March 27, 2011, jeff maurer said…: evrything ive done so far is in open A (AEA). i use an A D and G string. tune your a to A and the d and g string tune up one step to E and A. my sring gauges are wound 36, 26, and a plain 18.

At 11:36pm on February 24, 2011, dogfinger steve said…: just checked tuning...nearly c g c:0)

At 11:33pm on February 24, 2011, dogfinger steve said…: thanks mike, there's one in the fridge got yr name on it:0)

At 3:37am on February 13, 2011, Uncle John said…: Hi Mike, glad to have you and Elvis for nation friends. Going to see if I can post a photo of my Elvis here.

At 10:21pm on July 7, 2010, 7 Hills Stomp said…: Mike, thanks for the comment on the vid. Glad you liked it and thanks for watching

At 3:12pm on June 24, 2010, Charlie Kimbler "dr. Jones" said…: tryin' to figure the whole video thing out, when I do every guitar I sell will have one. sounds great, sustains for a long time, one octave between open to the twelfth fret. thanks for the comment

At 4:23pm on June 23, 2010, Jason Johnson said…: I use a kick drum pedal and just made a little stand for it out of 2x4's.

At 8:50pm on June 6, 2010, HERMIT said…: Many thanks for kind words fella.. your correct its GDG!

At 6:01am on June 6, 2010, Tom (mezzy) Hiles said…: Hi Mike, Thanks for the friendship and the kind words. Watched your videos as well, great sounding amp! As far as purchasing one of my guitars go, shoot me an email @
blackwatermez@hotmail.com and let me know what your after as far as 3,4,0r 6 strings and what type of pickup you'd be interested in and so on.. I'd love to get one out to you!

At 4:50am on June 3, 2010, MrRandomWritings (Backwater Bri) said…: Thanks for the comment Mike - thought a mug shot of me for 5 minutes might be a bit too much to bear for even my greatest fans LOL!

At 1:54pm on June 2, 2010, franky-j said…: Thanks for your com !
to save my video I proceeded as follows:
microphone in front of the instrument (I move to the amplifier for the electrical part) + a microphone placed in ambient the room ---> soundcard ---> computer.

At 11:57am on May 2, 2010, darren brown said…: hey mike thanks its in open g . gdg

At 3:59pm on March 23, 2010, Wes "I'm Baaaaack" Yates said…: Welcome aboard, Mike! You will find lots of helpful folks and information here on all things CBG (CBU, CBB, etc.) Feel free to poke around, ask questions, and post your stuff (photos, recordings, videos, etc.).

Up in the Free Resources menu at the top, you will see a number of plans for building and playing cigar box guitars/ukuleles/banjos/dulcimers/violins. I encourage you to download any of the plans, take a look at them, and ask questions from there. Also our site is VERY searchable. I bet you your questions have already been asked, so take a few moments and look around.

Join our Chat sometime (see the bar at the bottom of your browser page). Keep in mind that tho the chat window says there are X number of people online, not all may have the chat window up.

Most of all, have fun!

-Wes