All Videos Tagged biscuit (Cigar Box Nation) - Cigar Box Nation

old-merry-snail-go-round

2013-03-13T14:12:34.653Z

jamming with audacity recorder. biscuit tins; diddley bow and toy organ

haven't got any idea what i try to do/play here...

où est charlie ? part1

2012-10-17T10:22:58.968Z

Waldo in CBG land...
a little game (an easy one to begin!)
ahah i hope that CB friend will not mind that i steal their profile pics and guits

poor waldo...people always think that he's having fun playing hide and seek,
but he's actually desperate caus he's totally lost his way and dont know how to go back home! after crossing many cities, he's now lost in a weird frightening world, THE CBG LAND !
Who will be the first CBGer to find him and tell him the way to go back home ?

White and red striped biscuit tin with clip on piezo plugged in the recorder...sound like crap... i like dirty sounds, but here's not the kind of dirty sound i like..

The Breton

2012-07-10T12:36:57.104Z

Time to break out the Breton. Biscuit Tin. Maple through-neck. Crappy bridge I ripped off a cheap toy guitar (I made a bridge but lost it. Like my tooth...) It has a pickup but I usually play unplugged as here, the volume's fine.

Sorry about the ropy singing, chuggy pace ( I normally play this faster but with even more mistakes), alarming visage, rakish camera angle (ipad propped against a plant pot) and shower room setting. In fact, sorry about everything. You have been warned.

Bourbon Blues - On Three String Bourbon Biscuit Tin Guitar

2012-05-04T13:07:10.747Z

I loved the look of this tin like a giant Bourbon biscuit, and thought it would be fun to make into a guitar...didn't expect it to sound so good!!
These are still available from M&S for about a fiver. They are selling on eBay for much more...and with no biscuits in??!!
My husband spotted them. He also got a Custard Cream one which he is planning to use to make his first guitar when he can find the time. They'd be great to play together : -)
I'm using one of my favourite slides, made by diamond bottlenecks http://www.diamondbottlenecks.com/DB08/index.asp
The amp used is a Roland AC33, absolutely clean with no reverb or anything.
I used a rod piezo (from CB Gitty) which I put just under the bridge inside the tin, between the tin and the neck. It's wedged in so there is downward pressure on it which I think is important. This is the second one of them I have used and I think they're great!! Less feedback and a more rich and mellow tone than the disc piezos.

The Bourbon was introduced in 1910 (originally under the name Creola) by the Bermondsey biscuit company Peek Freans, of London, originator of the Garibaldi biscuit. The Peek Frean brand is now owned in the UK by United Biscuits, although the Peek Frean name is no longer used in the UK. In the US and Canada the brand is owned by Kraft Foods.

Gold Rush Resonator Guitar

2010-06-24T12:55:28.948Z

Cigar Box Resonator Guitar I built. It has a RV floor flange for the resonator cone, a stove top drip pan for a cover, a purpleheart biscuit bridge, popular and oak neck and drain covers as the sound hole covers. It is a electric three string laptop with some swampy blues just pouring out.
Thanks to my friend Matt "Sea Legs" Singley