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"New Lesson-Chords for "What'll I do"(Irving Berling) from Slow Mick. MIDI pick-up. https://rutube.ru/video/8661d1ecb556c5a151e3c33834567cb6/"

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" I sat here in a stupor of wonder at the sound of that thing.Your wonderful playing added to the sound. Thank you."

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"Southern Ray, thank you for comment. I Like design of this guitar. It was experimental to elaborate the optimal configuration Best regards."

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Southern Ray commented on Slow Mick's blog post Experimental CBG from Slow Mick finished 2024

" I saw the top picture first and thought what I nice, understated beautiful guitar that is and then scrolled down and got a big grin. Love the way that top[ folds away to expose the innards. I bet that is a lot of fun to experiment with. For me…"

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"Pretty cool and that would sure be useful in lots of ways. Nice playing as well."

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"Very good composition! Catching sound and playing style. Thank you for sharing!"

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"Thank You, Uncle John. This is fragment of MoonlightMile from Sticky Fingers."

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"Super nice. I love the slow blues. "

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"Thank You, A.D.EKER. Just for information: Roland GR-55 can simultaneously run four channels: Three MIDI and one from Guitar PICKUP. It has both Analog and MIDI outputs, what allows later during edditing in DAW on computer to use…"

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How did you learn about Cigar Box Nation?: Surfing in Internet

How many instruments have you built so far?: 3

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 like the Simplicity of playing Rock and Blues iconic songs from 70-80 ties on CBG with a very Rocking Sound. Always was dreaming to play Brown Sugar and here you are, now I can!

As for CBS guitars building, I started in spring 2022 (after I retired) and I found this process exciting and very challenging.

I developed design of flat Single Loop pick-up, which does not require making notches in the neck of CBS, like if you instal Conventional Magnetic Pick-ups. This allows to make solid body 3 String Guitars more compact and light weight. Two “3 string solid body Guitars” I made to understand details of construction and manufacturing process, selection of necessary tools. And the third one was kind of the final prototype, which has accumulated in its design all my experience from production of previous two.

I also play and record songs as Slow Mick.

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Experimental CBG from Slow Mick finished 2024

Posted on January 16, 2024 at 8:00am 1 Comment 1 Like

Just finished experimental CBG. Material used for the box: 12 mm plywood.

Two Pick-ups:

- Inductive - Self Made

- Piezo - BelCat kit - IRIS 1 with Pre-Amp. It was available and I utilised it.

Each sound channel has separate output socket.

During experimenting I used also a sheet of metal for enhancing resonance, but nothing happened, on top - guitar became heavy. So I refused to install this element.…

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Pictures of my new Guitar (4 strings).

Posted on June 7, 2023 at 8:15am 4 Comments 2 Likes

Hello respected CigarBoxNation community.

Here are pictures of my 'just baked' Guitar, this time with 4 strings.

Shape of body - Fender Tele.

Pick-up - Inductive (as in previous 3 models, made earlier).

Tuning: G D g B

Manufacturing in garage with multiple days-off - took about 3 month of non-intensive work.

Sound examples will be sent later, sorry :o)

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WARNING ABOUT NON_APPROPRIATE ACTIONS OFMr James Pollard

Posted on March 4, 2023 at 10:00pm 5 Comments 0 Likes

Through Cigar BoxNations I received a message from this person: James Pollard

below: James Pollard added a comment to your profile on Cigar Box Nation

I have been in search of someone with this last name "Yakunkin" so when I saw your name I was pushed to contact you and see how best we can assist each other.

My name is Mr James Pollard. I am working with Commercial bank of Dubai(UAE). I believe it is the wish of God…

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Instruments built by Slow Mick (aka Mikhail Yakunkin)

Posted on February 28, 2023 at 9:00am 5 Comments 3 Likes

There is a line of 3pcs of Solid Body Guitars (SBG), which were inspired by design of CBG, I met in internet. All were manufactured by me in 2022-2023.

So the first two instruments were used as prototypes to develop the final design (#3) and Guitar body final shaping, including selection of necessary tools, materials and type of woods and coating used.

Special attention was dedicated to development and assembling of the flat pick-up, which really allows to simplify the…

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At 7:47am on November 10, 2023, Doug Thorsvik said…: The Cigar Box Nation links to my songbooks you used may not be the latest. You can find the latest free songbooks at my website here: Slinger Songbooks

Enjoy!

At 8:34pm on October 5, 2023, A.D.EKER said…: HI mick ! do your thing ! greets A.D.

At 8:12am on March 18, 2023, A.D.EKER said…: Hello Slow Mick ! this is what i use ,for all my recording.

and afterwards i mix the digital signal whit Audacity.

Hope this answerds your question ! Kind greeeettsszz A.D.