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"Looks very much like my metal cookie box guitar. Does it sound tinny and harsh when…" YeahDoIt replied Nov 7, 2010 to My first CBG and its a BTG! A great Saturday night playing with my wood	18	Nov 10, 2010 Reply by Mark
"Get real tuners. It's OK to be cheap but the CBG has to work." YeahDoIt replied Oct 31, 2010 to Tuning pegs	6	Nov 1, 2010 Reply by Kevin Knuth
"I cut a notch in the cover for the wire to pass through, put my microphone inside th…" YeahDoIt replied Oct 29, 2010 to Please help: I'm having troubles on how to add a jack to the box to plug in.	16	Jan 23, 2011 Reply by MichaelS Country Boy Guitars
"Maybe we can work this out ourselves. Part of the problem may be that many different…" YeahDoIt replied Oct 22, 2010 to Method for learning like the caged/escolator,scalator type method, but in open D	18	Oct 22, 2010 Reply by BenBob
"Adorable little amp. How long can you operate on a 9 volt battery?" YeahDoIt replied Oct 22, 2010 to mini amp gone off the rails	9	Oct 22, 2010 Reply by Mungo Park
"http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/1920m.html" YeahDoIt replied Oct 18, 2010 to 1920's music ???	2	Oct 18, 2010 Reply by Keni Lee Burgess
"Buy a lottery ticket maybe you are on a lucky streak." YeahDoIt replied Oct 15, 2010 to Huge flea market find	3	Oct 15, 2010 Reply by YeahDoIt
"I found some nylon uke strings on the web that list diameters: http://accessories.mu…" YeahDoIt replied Sep 24, 2010 to looking for a nylon string gauge calculator	4	Sep 24, 2010 Reply by YeahDoIt
"My favorite 3 string CBG has a neck 25.5 mm wide." YeahDoIt replied Sep 24, 2010 to Is a 40mm wide neck too thin for a 3-stringer?	12	Sep 24, 2010 Reply by YeahDoIt
"I don't get much sustain from my CBG, and my CBG tuned GDd sounds a bit like a banjo…" YeahDoIt replied Sep 22, 2010 to Help required on setup	12	Sep 24, 2010 Reply by Keni Lee Burgess

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YeahDoIt's Discussions (72)

"Looks very much like my metal cookie box guitar. Does it sound tinny and harsh when…"

"Get real tuners. It's OK to be cheap but the CBG has to work."

"I cut a notch in the cover for the wire to pass through, put my microphone inside th…"

"Maybe we can work this out ourselves. Part of the problem may be that many different…"

"Adorable little amp. How long can you operate on a 9 volt battery?"

"http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/1920m.html"

"Buy a lottery ticket maybe you are on a lucky streak."

"I found some nylon uke strings on the web that list diameters: http://accessories.mu…"

"My favorite 3 string CBG has a neck 25.5 mm wide."

"I don't get much sustain from my CBG, and my CBG tuned GDd sounds a bit like a banjo…"

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