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Medicine Man CBG's-Mikel Doktor's Groups (24)

  • Can Jo Consortium

    167 members Latest Activity: yesterday The simplest little resonator instrument of all. Please add links to plans, photos of your canjos and ideas you've found that make the most of this…

  • Cigar Box Nation Facebook project

    96 members Latest Activity: Mar 28 A collection of CBG fan pages on Facebook. Spread the word about other builders/performers on fB!

  • Cigar box tunings

    166 members Latest Activity: on Friday

    Cigar box tunings open to 2'3'4'5'6' stringers uke's bass's what ever you got. and how you creativly use these tuning's

  • Home Made Guitar Amps

    97 members Latest Activity: 2 hours ago

    This is a group for home made guitar amps.

  • Three string guitars

    539 members Latest Activity: 4 hours ago

    Everything about anything that's a three stringer

  • Shane Speal Concert Network

    78 members Latest Activity: May 26

    Shane Speal is now booking performing arts centers, festivals and club shows in the Mid Atlantic US region (Pennsylvania, Maryland, New York, New…

  • unusual guitar designs

    152 members Latest Activity: May 7 bring us your most unusual builds that you think is not average so we can say yes that is different.

  • Old Punks Never Die - They Just Play CBG's

    90 members Latest Activity: Dec 24, 2012 Talk about the good old days when you were a punk. Post pics and covers of old Punk Songs on a CBG!

  • Piezo pickups

    133 members Latest Activity: Jun 11

    All ideas to make piezoelectric

    sound good and stable.

  • ~History's Corner~

    12 members Latest Activity: Mar 13 Stories of Old Cigar Box Instruments

  • Cigar Box Guitar Museum at Speal's Tavern

    67 members Latest Activity: Apr 18

    Get updates on The Cigar Box Guitar Museum at Speal's Tavern, the world's first permanent museum collection of Cigar Box Guitars.  Speal's Tavern…

  • rat rod guitars

    142 members Latest Activity: May 15 cbgs that may look a bit rough around the edges but sound like hot rods

  • DUMPSTER DIVER'S MUSIC UNION

    174 members Latest Activity: Apr 29 Scavengers unite! We want to know what unusual trash you've used to build instruments. Post your trash-to-treasure creations. Follow up on…

  • Super Advanced Cigar Box Guitar Building

    388 members Latest Activity: 4 hours ago Here's where the freaks hang out. Get the inside scoop on wild cigar box guitar designs, advancements and experiments. Not for the timid builder!

  • Dulcimers and Strummers

    297 members Latest Activity: 6 hours ago This group is opened to everyone that builds, plays or just likes the sound of a dulcimer. Both the strum and lap types, it`s all in the fretting.

  • New York Cigar Box Guitars

    31 members Latest Activity: Jan 8 The Cigar Box Guitar group for builders and musicians in the New York area.

  • Four String Cigar Box Guitars

    120 members Latest Activity: Jun 10 Group for those who are interested to find out more and swap ideas for builds, chords and tunings for these versatile instruments!

  • Classifieds and Swaps

    301 members Latest Activity: May 15

    A place to buy, sell, trade cigar box guitars and other related gear.

     

    Keep in mind that you can find most…

  • C. B. Gitty Crafter Supply

    200 members Latest Activity: Jun 11 C. B. Gitty Crafter Supply is your one-stop shop for the parts and accessories you need for building and playing Cigar Box Guitars and other…

  • CBG wiring & electronics.

    506 members Latest Activity: yesterday

    Want to plug that thing in? Here's a place to share ideas about pickups (Both magnetic and piezo) and wiring in volume and tone control, the best…

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