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Recycling Centre
69 members
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Scale Lengths, etc.
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Lap Steel World
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CBG Tabs
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Three string guitars
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Cigar Box Ukulele
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California CBGs
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Old School
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Secrets of the CBG Under…
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CBGs by nature involve recycling old boxes. Here is a place to share all your ideas about recycling everyday objects into guitar parts. Eye bolt tuners, drain cover soundholes, rusty spanners as bridges, paint can resos... Share creative ideas here.
This group is designed as a resource for all things related to scale lengths, string gauges, etc.
Move over brand new shiny guitar, Here comes my Cigar Box Guitar!!!
Way back when i was younger I always asked for a guitar, didn't get it. My dad would always
say " Bo Diddley made his guitar with a cigar box and a piece o' wood". And i always looked at
him like as if he were crazy. Meanwhile i had a friend that wanted to leave his guitar at my house.
The neck was broken away from the body, he had no intentions of comin' back for it. what do I do
with a guitar that can't be played? Bo Diddley! Yeah! That's it! I glued and screwed the broken off
neck and bridge to a Hava-Tampa cigar box, thus creating my first guitar and cigar box guitar!
Twenty years later, I discovered "cigar box guitars" group strictly by accident, triggering my long
lost love for all things cigar box. Isn't it funny how life comes full circle sometimes?
say " Bo Diddley made his guitar with a cigar box and a piece o' wood". And i always looked at
him like as if he were crazy. Meanwhile i had a friend that wanted to leave his guitar at my house.
The neck was broken away from the body, he had no intentions of comin' back for it. what do I do
with a guitar that can't be played? Bo Diddley! Yeah! That's it! I glued and screwed the broken off
neck and bridge to a Hava-Tampa cigar box, thus creating my first guitar and cigar box guitar!
Twenty years later, I discovered "cigar box guitars" group strictly by accident, triggering my long
lost love for all things cigar box. Isn't it funny how life comes full circle sometimes?
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Events
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Shane Speal LIVE AT SPEAL'S TAVERN!!! (Pgh. area)
July 30, 2010 from 9pm to 11:45pm – Speal's Tavern
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BLUES IN THE SCHOOL BENEFIT& FUNDRAISER
July 31, 2010 from 2pm to 6pm – FAT FISH BLUE in Zona Rosa
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I have started a CBN group entitled, "How to Play CBG" It is my hope and intention to encourage the "Wealth of Talent" here on the Nation to share their knowledge and skill to further the CBG movement. Please consider contributing an instructional "video" link to this group. If you are a viewer seeking instruction, please feel free to write. If you have any suggestions or know other players who you think may want to post instructional "video" links, please contact me. Thank you for your interest and support, Keni Lee
MadMan Lloyd, here. Just to let ya know, I'll be at the Live Oak Music Fest, June 19 - 21, just north of Santa Barbara. I have a booth on the Art Walk. If you can make it, I'll see ya there.
MadMan Lloyd
Your cigar box is cool! See you online. Lenny
I do make it up to the Bay area on occation as my son lives there.
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