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"I recessed the neck of my guitar to give the lid max resonation. The only "electrics…" Wild Rover replied Aug 7, 2010 to Leaving the top free to resonate?	5	Aug 7, 2010 Reply by Wild Rover
"Thanks for all your effort. I built my cbg and the amp that goes with it. I play cbg…" Wild Rover replied Jul 27, 2010 to Death of the podcast	29	Oct 22, 2013 Reply by Tom Krein
"If you love this kind of music, listen to Stink Finger Radio on Weds @ 8 pm EST and…" Wild Rover replied Jul 18, 2010 to Stink Finger Radio! Live on Fridays at 4 PM est	4	Jul 18, 2010 Reply by Wild Rover
"I remember when I was a kid, plugging my headphones into the mic jack on a portable…" Wild Rover replied Jul 3, 2010 to My accidental pick up discovery	22	Jul 6, 2010 Reply by Bad Golfer
"The strings I have on mine are .032, .022, .016, I have mine tuned to open G (G, D,…" Wild Rover replied Jun 26, 2010 to string gauges for a 3 string guitar	10	Jun 30, 2010 Reply by Keni Lee Burgess
"You might try black annealed wire. It comes in a lot of different gauges. I got some…" Wild Rover replied Jun 16, 2010 to Black fret wire	20	Jun 24, 2010 Reply by Michael Gajeski
""It Might Get Loud" is one of the best music documentaries I've seen. Another good o…" Wild Rover replied Jun 10, 2010 to Jack White of the White Stripes/The Dead Weather rips on his Daddy Mojo CBG!!!!	8	Jun 10, 2010 Reply by Wild Rover
"This is some good stuff. Hope this saves a few steps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=…" Wild Rover replied Jun 9, 2010 to Jack White of the White Stripes/The Dead Weather rips on his Daddy Mojo CBG!!!!	8	Jun 10, 2010 Reply by Wild Rover
"That was really cool. I saved both of those to my favorites. There is Blind Willie J…" Wild Rover replied Jun 9, 2010 to Blind Willie Johnson Music out of this world	2	Jun 9, 2010 Reply by Wild Rover
"The video at this link is not on youtube anymore, but you can still find the video p…" Wild Rover replied Jun 9, 2010 to Over The Rainbow	14	Jun 10, 2010 Reply by Crow

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Wild Rover's Discussions (26)

"I recessed the neck of my guitar to give the lid max resonation. The only "electrics…"

"Thanks for all your effort. I built my cbg and the amp that goes with it. I play cbg…"

"If you love this kind of music, listen to Stink Finger Radio on Weds @ 8 pm EST and…"

"I remember when I was a kid, plugging my headphones into the mic jack on a portable…"

"The strings I have on mine are .032, .022, .016, I have mine tuned to open G (G, D,…"

"You might try black annealed wire. It comes in a lot of different gauges. I got some…"

""It Might Get Loud" is one of the best music documentaries I've seen. Another good o…"

"This is some good stuff. Hope this saves a few steps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=…"

"That was really cool. I saved both of those to my favorites. There is Blind Willie J…"

"The video at this link is not on youtube anymore, but you can still find the video p…"

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