Bluesheart

Haverhill, MA

United States

Profile Information:

How did you learn about Cigar Box Nation?
Internet search for cigar box guitar
How many instruments have you built so far?
About 35 I think.
What do you find most interesting about cigar box guitars? (If you do not enter something meaningful here (at least one sentence long), your membership may be rejected as a spam/bot fake account).
Each one is a new adventure and learning experience / engineering challenge.

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  • Suspect Device

    Thank YOU. Your stuff is amazing. I really like the Papillion uke and the build you are doing with the curved/clamshell box. I have a pile of those boxes and I like the look (& challenge) of the curved top/edge.

  • Nigel McTrustry

    Thanks Bluesheart for the comment.

    You have some great work on your page. very inspiring.

    Dig the washboard,Harp box, jeans bags. etc...

    Nigel

  • Michael Fred Johnson

    Thanks for your comments. I was just about to post some more photos of No23 and say it was my first fourstringer but I'd forgotten about the bass I made for a nieces boyfriend. He did the outside paintwork on the house in exchange

    Michael

  • Phill Hill Charlie

    Many thanks for your nice words about my works, BluesHeart...°<[:-) [---]==={...

  • Phill Hill Charlie

    Happy to be your new friend...i ve all your vids to see...°<[:-) [---]==={...

  • Jonathan Hartwell

    will do. I love your work.  MA is massachusetts right?

  • Jonathan Hartwell

    I have been wanting to see what the fall looks like in maine, and mass. for a long time. Some of the pictures I have seen are more beautiful than those here in WV and VA.Yes maple is definately a plus.

  • Michael Fred Johnson

    Thanks for your comment

  • Turkeychicken

    Thanks for the friend invite. If you are on facebook, "Like" me at http://www.facebook.com/TurkeychickenCBG. I post there alot more pics and such there.
  • darren brown

  • thikwater

    Hi Bluesheart, just noticed your like comment from sunday. Thank you for that. I'm still just finding my feet navagating the site etc. So apologies for my late reply.

  • thikwater

    Hi  Bluesheart, thanks for the invite. Glad to be  friends.

  • GARY KNIGHT

    Thanks for your nice comments.. This is a great website, glad I discovered it :)

    My best mate Neil play Harmonica too.

    Here's a vid with me on an old Harmony guitar I converted into an electric laptop slide and Neil on harp. See what yer finks?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xrr79WVm7Q

    Bright Blessings

    Gary

  • GARY KNIGHT

    Thanks for that.. I'll tell Neil

  • thikwater

    Hi Bluesheart, thanks for your kind words. I appreciate it. Trev

  • darren brown

    thank you blues heart

  • Michael Fred Johnson

    Thanks for the comment on the new playpen. I reckon the best thing will be the light, I'll be able to see what I'm doing

  • Dave Lynas

    Hey bluesheart, Thanks for the invite to friendliness. I love your work and your comments. I love this site and meeting new like minded builders and players such as yourself. ... Dave 

  • Dave Lynas

    Hey Bluesheart, thanks for the friend request. I tried to leave a note, but got a notice about moderating comments and it blipt me.?. Dave

  • thikwater

    Thanks for your comments Bluesheart. You're the man!

  • Jonathan Hartwell

    hey bluesheart how have you been? I checked out your new pics and i gotta say, i can't wait for more. hope all is well

  • Dave Lynas

    Hey Bluesheart, i got myself in trouble with the powers at Nation over the lady sculptures. I don't want to cause any trouble with anyone, so i'll speak of it no more. I love this site and want to stay in the club. "Nobody knows you when you're down and out" like you're singing... Dave

  • darren brown

    thanx buddy .

  • Jamie MacBlues

    Cheers, Bluesheart, ma man. Ah thought we were friended too, just noticed today we were NOT. Have a good weekend, or what's left of it :)

  • Ron "Oily" Sprague

    Bluesheart,

    Very glad to accept your Friend request. Once I get to a decent computer, I plan to look and listen more closely to your vids they take forever to load on an iPad). One way to improve that that I do is to upload to YouTube, then paste the YT link to CBN.
  • Greg Roberts

    Thanks. I may try that wammy idea but I hear you on the so many ideas and not enough time thing
  • Michael Fred Johnson

    Thanks for your comment, I see your mandolin conversion is comming on well

  • Low Budget Luthier

    thanks bro!

  • Low Budget Luthier

    thanks bro!

  • Howling Dick

    Bluesheart, Trying to get people to contribute their music for a podcast of lowfi blues and cigar box guitar. Interested? HD

  • Matty Baratto

    Thank You!  I'm pretty floored myself... Happy Holidays.  Nice tune!!

  • Matty Baratto

    Happy Holidays!  Your welcome anytime when you are in  North Hollywood.  Just call first! 818-761-3370.

     Best,

     Matty B

  • cynthia dinan

    Thanks for the compliments Bruce. I'm rather impressed by your work as well. Gorgeous stuff.
  • darren brown

    thanks bluesheart that is tuned to gdgb .

  • George Simpson

    Thanks Blueheart!!!

    George

  • Michael Fred Johnson

    Thanks for your comment

  • Gerard Hoogeveen

    well it's a teabox actually but thanks for the comments anyway.

  • Jonathan Hartwell

    Thanks for the compliment. Yeah I threw some frets in there, I figured all the work I put into it would be a waist if I didn't. Been wanting to check out your pics for a while now, I'm sure you have a lot of new ones in there. Thanks again.

  • Dave Lynas

    Hey Bluesheart. Thanks for your comments about too many photos/videos per day. I like seeing all the great stuff people are making, but too much is too much. I don't look as much at the multitude of daily additions. Now i troll through the photos and open only ones that turn my crank. I'm amazed at the sheer volume of new photos every day. It get boring to try and see them all. Less would be more in this case. I love this site and hate to see it made into a race for numbers of views of the same project. Fewer with more information written about each one. Many photos are not identified at all. I'd use the messages are for my comment, but it's not working for me lately. I have to go right to your page to leave a message. Don't know what the problem is there... Thanks again for taking time to speak to this issue. ... Dave
  • ron carlson

    "just where the sander wouldn't reach"

    Ha!!!  You should have made up some big story about how you learned that heel detail from a CBG building Tibetan  monk during you travels east while trying to find yourself.  Who knows, I may have bought it ;)

    Thanks for the friend request thing. I'm flattered and happy to oblige!

  • Randy S. Bretz

    Here`s one i saw sometime back, saved the pic for reference.

  • Bjorn Damsgaard

    Hi Bluesheart! Thanks for wishing me welcome to The Nation. I've finished two more gits since then, and I'm keeping on keeping on. I've tried to comment to your builds, but have failed to load it up or something. I'll try again.

    The Best to you.

    Bjorn

  • Bill Powell

    Bluesheart, the lack of a chapter on you and featuring photos of Aja, the Undertaker, Splinter Pig and other examples of your skill and design aesthetic makes David Sutton's book, "Cigar Box Guitars" incomplete.

  • cynthia dinan

    Bruce,  I look forward to your new works.  I have been working on mandos and ukes lately, but recently returned to the 3-stringer standard to build one for my cousin and it is very pretty, with clean lines.  I will post pictures of it after she receives it in New York.  It's supposed to be a surprise (what it looks like), so I don't want her stumbling onto any pics before then.  She plays bass, so I strung it uniquely.  More to come!  :)  I'm hoping to do more of the Steampunk work too, since the Steampunk twins have gone off to new homes. 

  • Blue Collar Devil

    Thanks for the request :)

  • Michael Fred Johnson

    Thanks for your comments. Yes it is all cut by hand, must be getting better, I only snapped two piercing saw blades on the tailpiece as opposed to about ten on the sound hole

  • Rob (Uker) Porras

    Great page. I love the music.

  • Michael Fred Johnson

    Thank you for your comment

  • darren brown

    thank you blues heart

  • Rick "Mik" Moretti

    Thanks Blueheart, will do. I have a few things started now. Will post them as I complete 'em. Hope to learn more from veterans like yourself.