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You know you're addicted to building CBG's when.....

Posted by Wade on August 31, 2011 at 8:51pm in Performances, How to Play, Lessons, Concerts

 

Hey, 

 

You know your'e addicted to building cigar box guitars when.....

 

# 100 - you're missing a drawer pull in the kitchen cuz' you needed a kool tailpiece for a build!!!

 

I bet we could come up with at least  99 more- let's hear what you have to say!

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  • Mr.C December 21, 2011 at 4:19am
    When you stop and look at a 70s walnut couch put out in the trash try to figure out how many necks you can get out of it .and how to fit it into a two door sports coupe.
  • Order99 December 20, 2011 at 11:30pm

      You see a can of pre-sweetened Mango tea in the Dollar Store-  

          

      -when suddenly, without warning, you see it in your mind. An imitation Strohviol! The can will be the bridge and resonator both, just like a Canjo. In order to get a proper intonation at the 12th fret mark(and it WILL be marked!) you'll need to place the can on a small, movable platform then screw or glue it later just like a guitar bridge...then enclose it in a  cigar  box for extra resonance and a mellower sound...flat-wound giutar strings tuned to a chord (the design has already mutated into a small cello)...maybe some soupcans grafted onto the soundhole in the box for a true directional sound just like the real thing....

     

       ...and when your head clears(after a mental inventory of how many 0.50 garden stakes you have left and if you're out of wood glue) you realize you have four 20oz cans of Mango tea in your bag-one for the prototyping, two in case of errors and one for a neat little Canjo.

     

       Also, you have no idea if you like Mango Tea.

     (GLUG glug glug glug....)

      Meh.

     (glug glug glug glug glug glug glug glug glug.......)

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

  • Habanera Hal December 18, 2011 at 7:17am

    Maybe next week if I remember to bring a screwdriver (and rubber gloves). Though, if I get caught and arrested, how do I explain it?  And if I do snag it (or 8 of them), would I tell prospective customers?  "Oh, yeah, the soundhole cover is out of a public urinal."  Sounds real classy. LOL.

    Ellwood T. Bear said:

    Well................... Did you Snag it?

  • Wade December 18, 2011 at 3:02am


    Hal "PairsNPaint" Spalter said:

    Had to bring this thread back to life.  Went to a concert down at the beach tonight (Good Blues/Jazz group).  Had to use the public restroom.  WhilTe standing there looking down, thought the metal strainer in the bottom of the urinal would make a cool soundhole cover.

     


     

    Lord, please help me.


    You guys really are addicted and have some issues(haha)- hey Hal when you get that urinal cover grab the white cake in the bottom for me- Im thinkin it will make the inside if my CBg smell purty!
  • Habanera Hal December 17, 2011 at 10:18pm

    Had to bring this thread back to life.  Went to a concert down at the beach tonight (Good Blues/Jazz group).  Had to use the public restroom.  While standing there looking down, thought the metal strainer in the bottom of the urinal would make a cool soundhole cover.

     

     

    Lord, please help me.

  • Roadkill a.k.a. John Maw October 16, 2011 at 1:14pm
    And you spill food on your CBG because you can't stand to be parted from it at mealtimes. That's not me, by the way. Just my imagination getting the better of me. Don't worry. The men in white coats have just come to keep me company.

    Penfoot said:

    you are constantly sitting with a CBG either on your lap or around your neck even if you have no intention of playing at that point (although these points should really be few and far between)

     

  • Hayden A Butler October 16, 2011 at 12:48pm

    you are constantly sitting with a CBG either on your lap or around your neck even if you have no intention of playing at that point (although these points should really be few and far between)

     

  • Habanera Hal October 16, 2011 at 10:47am
    Is that neck curly maple?


    Grease Stains said:

     

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    i Forgot to post this here, hahah, thanks Wes!
  • Grease Stains October 16, 2011 at 9:52am

     

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    i Forgot to post this here, hahah, thanks Wes!
  • Roadkill a.k.a. John Maw October 16, 2011 at 5:11am

    OK. I own up. That's my photo and my addiction, but I can now raise you one. How about when you are so addicted that you get your friends to look out for stuff for you. This happened:

    A friend of mine was shopping for olive oil. I had asked her to keep the bottles with the long necks. She was looking at all the different types and a man said to her, "this is a good one if your not sure which to choose" and she turned to him and said "Thanks, but it's the wrong shape", which must have confused the hell out of him. He will probably never talk to anyone in a supermarket again, and wonders what shape olive oil should be.

    Watch out. This stuff's infectious.


    ED (Bad Finger) said:

    Can we keep going?

     

    I'm not sure if this one made it to the thread, and I don't like to call anyone out for their addiction, but when you're eatin' ice cream and you come up with this, you're done well addicted.

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