I am a lifelong musician (everything from Tuba to harmonicas and all sorts of stringed instruments) and just recently got around to making my first cigar box instrument from 'scratch.' I really tried to talk myself into buying a Seagull Merlin dulcitar for my birthday, but ended up trading in some old random gear for a tenor banjo instead... But I still wanted my dulcitar. So I decided to go ahead and build one. Now I need to makeanother one because the first one I built made an executive decision for me that it would stay fretless.
I've made washtub and trashcan basses and a bad attempt at a canjo made out of the corpse of a Mcnally strumstick, but I am now really interested in making more cigar box instruments. I just don't know which of my ideas to build first!
I dig old time clawhammer banjo, play electric bass in an Americana band called Midway Fair ( midwayfair.org ) participated in February Album Writing Month ( FAWM.org ) and am, when I find the time and space, a hobbyist blacksmith.
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Hi Dave!
I have a few cookie tins and rings of material I've been collecting over the years waiting for me to start into making instruments. The toolbox idea sounds neat...
Rick
That's slick!
How do you have it tuned?
6-C, 5-G, 4-C, 3-G, 2-C and 1-C.
Found the body on the side of the road. Had all the parts in my parts bin. Bought the loaded Squier Affinity pickguard off the bay.
Haha. It was one of two that found. About a month later on another street I found a 3-piece Basswood Strat body and a '65 Silvertone 1482 tube amp. Put a new cord on it and it worked, but needs to be rebuilt. Couple months later I got a Snare, bass kicker and 2 sets of toms, all but 2 toms need skins and there wasn't any hardware.
I think I'm the only one left in the neighborhood that plays anything dagnabit.
That was Paul who said that. Baltimore still has a thriving music scene. Our Old Time and Bluegrass scnes are really strong and growing too. There are weekly or bi weekly jams that are really well attended, square dances, all kinds of stuff.
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