Chester Winowiecki

Hey man welcome to the nation.... Looks like you are off to a good start here, I really like your builds... Stop by my page and say hello sometime.. Jim

Welcome aboard, Chester! You will find lots of helpful folks and information here on all things CBG (CBU, CBB, etc.) Feel free to poke around, ask questions, and post your stuff (photos, recordings, videos, etc.).

Up in the Free Resources menu at the top, you will see a number of plans for building and playing cigar box guitars/ukuleles/banjos/dulcimers/violins. I encourage you to download any of the plans, take a look at them, and ask questions from there. Also our site is VERY searchable. I bet you your questions have already been asked, so take a few moments and look around.

Join our Chat sometime (see the bar at the bottom of your browser page). Keep in mind that tho the chat window says there are X number of people online, not all may have the chat window up.

Most of all, have fun!

-Wes

Okay I think the answers to your questions are Medium D'Addario acoustics .035-.026-.017- .017 tuned to D,G,B,D. 560mm ( +-22") Thank you for the comment.
Opps! that's for the four string... On the three string it's the same strings .045,.035,.026 G,D,G Take care. Jim

I am very gratfull for your help can't wait to put it all together.Thanks man .I owe you one.

Man, love those tin banjos and clean work on the amp too.
Bluesheart

At this time I should come clean and let you know that I am mentaly disabled and I some time have a hard time understanding things I went to the site and saw all the trancfers and parts list ,but for the life of me I can't find the 1 resistor that is color coded Brown Green Green.Is there any way I can use one that is close and if so what would it be color code wise that is.I would also like to ask you if you would consider making me one with out the expensive parts as I have them all or if I am stepping out of bounds here then would it be possible to send me close up pics of the one you have and maybe just baybe I can get it right.I just know that I will be able to make more once I get over the hump.I really appreasiate what you have done so far.Thank you .After you read this go over to my pics to see my Alien CBG.

well it took me a long time.1st the thing just flat out did'nt work but I continued trying but still nothing,then yesterday I picked it up with all cylenders going I tracked it down to a faulty batterry snap,but nooo to easy then after changeing it out it still did'nt work so I narrowed it down to the input jack pluged it in and all I got was a buzzing sound so just before giving up I took a long hard look at the parts placement and 5 seconds from giving up I saw that I had the transistor in backwards.Well thanks to your support I am pleased to saythat it works just fine and I can build them in my sleep.Thank you for the incouragement

Thank you Chester for your comment. I am posting two more parts today and the final "video" lesson part 9 tomorrow. Enjoy.

OK, yeah, we were feelin' pretty rough by the time we got home...3-1/2 hours sleep, then a 22-1/2 hour day...maybe too old for that now.

I'll figure out how to contact you PM-wise, or e-mail (or whatever it's called here).

M

Thank you Chester for sharing the pictures . A real nice find. Enjoy.