"Thank you sir. Much appreciated. Now, let the fun begin.
Kidd"
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Kidd Filby's Discussions
Magnetic p'up mounting
Started this discussion. Last reply by Kidd Filby Aug 4, 2011. 24 Replies 0 Likes
OK.. a green horn question. I am looking to build a CBG with a magnetic p'up, for lap slide playing. I have read the SmokeHouse Advanced CBG Construction manual. ONE AWESOME TUTORIAL..... GREAT…Continue
2 on a plate Classical tuners
Started this discussion. Last reply by Kidd Filby Aug 1, 2011. 15 Replies 0 Likes
A friend of mine gave me (2) of these. I am guessing they are for a 4-string tenor classical guitar. They have NO... read that as ZERO markings on them. Can anyone tell me anything about them? I…Continue
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"I think I goofed on my 1st attempt at asking this question...
Hi Shane;
As usual... FANTASTIC job. Sounds amazing and looks killer!!
I was wondering what the spacings between the strings are?
Thanks and keep doing that thing you do;
Kidd"
"Welcome aboard Billy. Glad you joined. Next time you're out, we will have to do a backyard Jam session.
Your builds are fantastic. We may have to do some horse-trading....
Kidd"
Denton Music - Money (Tennis Racket Guitar)
"Howdy;
Those do make some kind a racket. AWESOME tone.
Great cover of a really badass song.
Do you sell these racket guitars? I don't have a FB account so, send me a link here, if you don't mind, so I can see about getting one, if you…"
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- How did you learn about Cigar Box Nation?
- Reaserching CBG's
- How many instruments have you built so far?
- over a dozen
- What do you find most interesting about cigar box guitars? (If you do not enter something meaningful here, your membership may be rejected).
- I Love the Tones you get. Nothing else has this old-time Blues tone like a CBG.
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Comment Wall (8 comments)
- At 11:00pm on January 3, 2012,
Jim Junksville Sharkey said…
Hi Kidd, thanks for the comment on the resonator. I put the pickup underneath the cone. I used a hot glue gun to fix another small circle of wood underneath which is glued through the hole in the cone to the biscuit, then hot glued the piezo to this, I found this way it wasn't to harsh with the treble, you can experement with different size thickneses to get the sound you want......by the way that is one hell off an awesome hotrod you got there!!!
- At 8:29am on November 12, 2011,
Phill Hill Charlie said…
Nice Hot Rod, Nice Guitars an Cigar Box Guitars...all what i love...°<[:-) [---]==={
- At 10:12am on October 21, 2011,
Elmar Zeilhofer said…
- Kidd, thanksn for friending! Cheers & greets from Vienna :-)
- At 1:08am on August 4, 2011,
Mike Bingham said…
- Thanks for the kind words, Kidd. Keep us posted on your build.
- At 12:45pm on August 3, 2011,
- You are quite welcome and thanks for the friend request!
- At 6:49am on July 4, 2011,
Strolling Tone said…
- Hey Kidd - Thanks for checking out my latest vid and I'm glad that my hot rod references weren't wasted. I was inspired by some of the images (like yours) I'd seen here on the nation.
Cheers bud!
- At 7:12am on June 24, 2011,
Hi Kidd -
Here are a few answers to your questions regarding my 5 string reso:
- Pickup Type
I'm afraid I don't know. I bought the cbg originally from backporch mojo - but then modified it with the brass reso cone. The chrome magnetic pickup was what big daddy Darren Dukes had fitted. I daresay if you drop him a message he'll tell you what he used.
On my own builds I've been using 3 string pickups made by Juju - a British member here on CBN. I recently built one with a flat Pup from Klangbox.
- Box Size
- Scale Length
- Tuning
- String Gauge
- Slide Type
- Amp & Settings
- Any Special Effects or Stomp Boxes
- Is this an old song by someone else
- You wouldn't happen to have TAB's for it
- Can I get a download of this video
You can download it from Youtube: Here's a link to my channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/redeyedramblers
Hope that answers your questions OK.
Cheers
Tone
- At 8:43pm on June 23, 2011,
- Cheers for your comment on my backporch mojo jam. I'm happy to exchange details any time you like. Thanks again.
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