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Comment by Paul Craig on July 19, 2017 at 10:39am

Welcome Steve.

Comment by Steve on July 19, 2017 at 8:23am

Hi there,

Finally joined, I'm from Birmingham UK and really looking forward to enjoying the experience of CBN.

Thanks

Comment by Jeff 'Bones' Reilly on June 29, 2017 at 9:49am

Cheers Jim thanks for the greeting mate I really dig building stuff but these CBS's are so much fun got both the boys playing and have been asked by 5 mates to make them a cbg each ,lucky I've finished off building the new house finally found a hobby that combines all my favorite things I do .

Comment by Jim Morris on June 18, 2017 at 12:31pm

Welcome Jeff. I too used to make furniture and now I look at it as nothing more, or less, than a good foundation for making instruments.

Comment by Jeff 'Bones' Reilly on June 18, 2017 at 11:49am

Hi my name is Jeff I'm from Hobart Tasmania Australia digging the learning curve on building and playing the CBG . cheers to the experience builders that have paved the way for us new kids on the block , I'm a retired furniture maker French polisher with a passion for playing guitars ,first 2 builds went fantastic #3 #4 are on the bench .can't stop ,won't stop is my moto .

Comment by Paul Craig on June 1, 2017 at 10:03am

Welcome JD. We are all happy to help if needed.

Comment by Paul Craig on June 1, 2017 at 10:03am

Welcome JD. We are all happy to help if needed.

Comment by JD Richardson on June 1, 2017 at 9:02am

Hello All,

My name is JD Richardson from Bonne Terre, MO. I joined about a week ago. Really interested CBG's. Got my first on the bench right now. You guys have a lot of great information. Cool not only to learn how to build and play but the history behind these great instruments. Thanks for letting be a part of the group.

Comment by Paul Craig on May 29, 2017 at 9:12am

Welcome Larry and Tim.

Comment by Tim Hooper on May 29, 2017 at 9:04am

Evenin' all!  I'm a late middle-aged bloke from the UK, with a passion for music.  I've been talentlessly strumming guitars for decades, and still can't manage a 3-chord song without messing it up somewhere along the way!  I was really intimidated by all the guitar heroes on YouTube, and rated myself very poorly in comparison.

I found the CBG phenomenon a year or so ago, and being a life-long model maker, soon had a simple 3-string CGB up and running. I attended one of Chickenbone John's excellent seminars, but just couldn't get the hang of the thing.

Step two saw me making a 6-string CBG, so I could carry on playing my familiar chord shapes.  This is my most used guitar, and even features an adhustable truss rod in the idigbo neck.

Then I discovered ukuleles, and everything changed! The chords were simple, and there were several clubs in my area.  Obviously I had a build my own (having had a bit of a bash of a simple kit from Ebay).

Uke 1.  Made from a painted wooden box I found on Ebay, I added a tenor mahogany neck.  Plays well, but the thick soundboard makes it too quiet for club use.

Uke 2.  A tenor banjolele, using a cheap tambourine as a pot, with a through-neck form idigbo wood.  Loud.  Sometimes too loud!

Uke 3 . Another tenor uke, but with the body built from parts of an old, scrapped acoustic guitar. So, nice curvy sides, with a thin ply top. Sounds a bit like a lute.  Nice.

Uke 4? Considering doing a 8-stringer, so watch this space!

Tim

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