Monterey

Winnipeg, Manitoba

Canada

Profile Information:

How did you learn about Cigar Box Nation?
Internet
How many instruments have you built so far?
4 1/2
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).
I love home-made instruments like cigar box guitars, license plate guitars, mountain dulcimers, and box fiddles because they aren't mass produced in Asia, but made by hand with love

Comment Wall:

  • Michael Fred Johnson

    Thanks for the invitation.I'll get back to you about the LPG

    Feb 2, 2015

  • Uncle John

    Good to have you for a nation friend.   Good luck with your LPG.   I've made three and one is a four string fretless and one of my fave players.   Long scale.  Easy slider.

    Feb 5, 2015

  • Michael Fred Johnson

    Thanks Monterey, just amazed you and BeetleJuice picked up on a four year old photo

    May 7, 2015

  • Tom Lanford

    Thanks for the friendship and the kinds words. The wood burning will work great on oak as well. I've done a lot on oak. I would suggest a little practice on some scrap first though. Due to the grain of oak it is a bit tougher to control than poplar or cedar. Good Luck!

    May 29, 2015

  • Rand Moore

    Hi.  I tried to add a comment to your photo on CBN showing your attempt at bending wood for a mountain dulcimer frame in your bath tube. So, I have left my comment here instead. 

    I built a mountain dulcimer with an elliptical shaped body without having to resort to either steam bending or soaking the wood in hot/boiling water. I just bent the wood dry (once it cracked, so had to try again at not such an extreme bend). So, it is possible to build a MD w/o the hassel of boiling/setaming the wood. I documented my build on CBN at this link.

    http://www.cigarboxnation.com/group/HMRB101/forum/topics/rand-moore...

    Any questions, can ask me...

    -Rand.

    Jun 7, 2015

  • Monterey

    Thanks, Rand, appreciate it. The next part is tricky, cutting the ends off so the Dulcimer will be straight when I'm finished! I made sure to make the sides way longer so I have lots of length to work with

    Jun 8, 2015

  • Dave Lynas

    Hi Monterey. I'd be very happy to be your friend. Thanks much. I've enjoyed our conversations and seeing what your up to.

    Jun 29, 2015