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Permalink Reply by Jeff 'Bones' Reilly on October 5, 2017 at 10:14am

Cool looking forward to seeing what you come up with I've hot #12,13 and parts of #14 on bench and in shed I'm using oak I've got lots to use up have fun building

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Permalink Reply by Wal Callaby on October 7, 2017 at 11:15am

Getting there. Thought I'd go for a nice simple fretless one-string first, make all my mistakes on that before moving onto three strings. Then I found a really simple Eb chord and couldn't tear myself away from the ones I already had, making up fun new stuff with the fun new chord. Ho hum. Did get the neck cut, shaped, and oiled in between playing; all the hardware is ready to go. But playing the damn' things is just so much fun- how does anyone find the time to build a new one?

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Permalink Reply by Kigar on October 6, 2017 at 11:51am

20mm is plenty for 3 strings, our 1x2 is really .75x 1.5" and that is fine with hardwood.

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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on October 6, 2017 at 8:10am

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RroVxJO-kng

This one's good too.

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Permalink Reply by Cause the Blue rat on October 6, 2017 at 7:32pm

Love me some Rage Against the Machine.

Here's a four chord progression I'm trying to work into something.  Using the 1, 5, 8 tuning. 

...................7

.....................8

.....................8

.................3

.................3

.................3

................8

......................10

...............8

.............5

.................6

............5

I've also learned that you can play lower that an open G in a G,D,G (158 ) tuning.

X

0

..2

X

.....3

..........5

0

0

0

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Permalink Reply by Cause the Blue rat on October 6, 2017 at 7:45pm

Four more chords to add to the first four.

....7

......8

....7

.......8

...........10

............10

............10

...........9

.....7

.........8

..5

..5

There are still a lot of variations I can try to add to this run. This is why I'm always videoing what I do. If I get stuck. Or run out of ideas I can watch this tatter. Sometimes all it takes is a bit of time away to make something work. 

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Permalink Reply by Diglydog on October 7, 2017 at 12:37am

Trying to play jazz on a ukulele at the moment.  I've just discovered ukuleles and the revelation has led to an accumulation of yet more instruments :-\

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Permalink Reply by Wal Callaby on October 7, 2017 at 11:04am

I know what you mean , dog. I'd sorta thought that when I started accumulating CBGs that I'd somehow just lose the six-strings, but it doesn't happen like that. My wife may kill me...

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Permalink Reply by Wal Callaby on October 10, 2017 at 6:11am

Ah- bless!

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Permalink Reply by Snuffy Smith on October 9, 2017 at 4:46pm

Well, I'm only 28 miles south of the Mason Dixon line (in West Virginia), but I don't find that location influencing me at all. I'm only a little over 4 months into playing CBG, and I'm really into the mellow/folksy, fingerpicking thing for now...no guitar picks, slides or distortion as of yet. I can't pinpoint what style I'm doing at all. I'm just playing what comes out of me, and I'm not aiming for anything, or limiting myself to one genre of music. So far, it's been all Open G Tuning for me, as I am too lazy to keep re-tuning my guitar.

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Permalink Reply by Wal Callaby on October 10, 2017 at 6:08am

Sorry Snuffy, that was a bit of lazy stereotyping (like all we English people have bad teeth and talk like Dick van Dyke)- I'm well aware of Kentucky and Appalachian folk traditions, the differences between Delta and other blues traditions, and the fact that Chicago blues, although hailing from Illinois, is a direct result of the black diaspora after WW2. But it got the discussion started, did it not? Number 1 CBN content for a while now...

Being new to this game too, I've not settled into a style. I am gonna learn some dustbowl blues, but you and others have said nice things about the fast-paced, "Brit"-sounding things I've posted. I usually start with a chord, add another, see where that leads... I was so pleased with finding an Eb chord last weekend it was a struggle to tear myself away and build something. There's at least two ideas happening, but it's got to be at least slightly multi-tracked before I can post it- I'm the only CBG player I know!

Btw, I used to know a guy from West VA- finest banjo player I've EVER heard. Proud of hailing from "the northern-most Southern state" he was- y'all.

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Permalink Reply by Snuffy Smith on October 10, 2017 at 6:42am

No offense here at all, LOL. There are stereotypes out there. And here in West Virginia, LOL. There's no denying that, but I hail from a hard rock background. My roots are more towards 1970's-1980's hard rock, than old skool American blues players (which I think alot of hard rock pioneers borrowed from).

Like you, I've not settled into any one style. But we're CBG noobs, so it might take some time to find where we gravitate to stylistically (and naturally). I too will just start out with a simple fingerpicking pattern that I like, and often will find a part to lead right into, but then I get stuck. I usually end up with just two parts. Then after a couple of times playing it (sometimes over days) the next part will develop, and often snowball from there. Sometimes I end up with too much, and have to hack it back (a leftover habit from being an old skool "prog" rocker as well).

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