Diddley Bows and Other Primitives

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Comment by chongolio on May 10, 2012 at 1:23pm

"The Junkbow" A two stringed cigar box diddley bow that I made using an old cigar box, scrap wood, a couple bolts and some drain covers for sound holes. I made a flying skelly head stencil and used a couple clear rinestone for blingy eyes. This buggah sounds awesome and can be heard on my song "Junkhound" by clicking on thislink.

Comment by Vick Griffin on April 27, 2012 at 8:05am

Tinkering around with my first d-bow build.  Got an old Teisco pup that I'm mounting on it - wondering what the optimum distance between string and pup would be for best playability...

Comment by Dave Burley on March 28, 2012 at 4:03pm

Tried my first one out tonight. I've dismantled it again for now so I can give it a bit of a sand down etc. but it sounded pretty good to my untrained ear.

Comment by Simon Wicks on February 12, 2012 at 2:26pm

my diddley bows ( so far )

this is the first one I made , took all of 2 mins to build originally , I added the pickup and jack socket later from a old guitar I had kicking about that was well past its best , it worked ok but not great , for one thing the string taken from the same guitar ( was all I had at the time ) was too short , struggled to get more than about a octave and a half from it before it went ultra sonic , I tried a smaller can on it to try and get more but didn't improve it much so I scrapped it and had a rethink

so onto MKII this one works way better , used a new string and it easly gets 2 octaves + , I put the pickup and socket from the other one in a baccy tin and mounted it to the board , added a machine head from the same guitar ( now looking very sorry for itself ) so I can tune it , I broke the last sander belt I had halfway through shaping it so it's a little rough around the edges , one day I will get round to getting it sanded up and finished , but for now I'm just enjoying playing it .

Comment by Tony Everett on February 3, 2012 at 4:23pm

Hi guys, can anyone tell me the best length of neck to put on my forthcoming one string project, I'm using a broom shank ... Many thanks ... Tony

Comment by Matthew Borczon on January 27, 2012 at 12:34pm

http://jerusalemmules.bandcamp.com/releases here is a link to a free cd I made on bandcamp. It is played on a 3 stringed cookie tin banjo. Hope you will listen and enjoy. Thanks

Comment by Jim Olean (JimO) on December 29, 2011 at 10:21pm

here are 2 pics of my portable bongos.  This is a large set but they can still work as lap bongos.  The cut outs are for your legs.  Played by hand mallets brushes.   /They pack well. 

Comment by Graham Alibone on November 20, 2011 at 11:13am

Hi Pat Wentworth, I thought this site was about making Music not money!

Comment by william Joseph mcbride on October 22, 2011 at 9:39am

Howdey

I play an array of Instruments from banjo to hurdy gurdy.
I picked up a Guitar Dulcimer 3 years ago and thought i would Make a cigar box version.
this went by the wayside and unfinished.
Then i discovered the Diddley Bow.
I finished the cigar box diddley 10-20-2011 with a Camel Snus resonator.
I will be putting a Transuducer in next and give it a wirl.
will post pictures soon.
I have also Just ordered a custome Cigar box Fiddle
with a Strum stick dulcimer neck from Blaine Horlocker who made my dulcimer.
He really likes a challenge. will send pics on that also.
If interested in having speciall items made like this you may want to check him out at
http://smokeymountaindulcimer.com/

Comment by Medicine Man CBG's-Mikel Doktor on October 8, 2011 at 12:54am

Truly one of the coolist guitars i've ever seen. Very inspiring!

 

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