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Added by steve vargo on January 6, 2009 at 8:19pm — No Comments

One day, after working at the music store, I came home to discover that Bo Diddley had died. The news really put a cloud over my day. Upon reading the article of his passing, they commented on his playing on a Cigar Box Guitar in his youth, thus explaining his preference in guitar shapes... This intrigued me. I Said "I can do that." Well, the day, I was at the smoke shop and Lowes, thre days later, Diddley King #1, was born. A week , later, two more followed, then I got online and start looking… Continue

Added by Gary Krepak- Sole Food Diddley Works on January 1, 2009 at 12:37am — 1 Comment

Secrets of the Cigar Box Guitar Underground

Added by John Sims on December 31, 2008 at 8:31am — No Comments

My Pedal Steel site

My Pedal Steel Guitar site

Added by John Sims on December 30, 2008 at 1:46pm — No Comments

new to cbg

New to cbg's, and new to community. Starting building for fun. using what I could find on forums and youtube. started bringing a couple to the craft shows where i was selling my turnings and boxes and other crafts. The cbg's drew more interest than anyhting else. So I'm sticking primarily to building them. And having so much fun doing it. Also make pretty cool wooden drums known as tongue drums. New website barely up and running....www.kendallcustoms.com

Added by kendallcustoms on December 29, 2008 at 3:27pm — No Comments

My CBG Site

Mojo Hand Guitars

Added by John Sims on December 27, 2008 at 5:30pm — No Comments

Radio Sucks

Preaching to the choir here, I'm sure, but radio is real bad.

Except for WDVX (if you aren't in Knoxville, TN you can stream it live on the Web), radio is void of anything remotely resembling art.

And WDVX plays lots of bluegrass, which I really don't care for, so I can't even listen to them a lot of the time. But look out Friday nights. That's when they have the Friday Night Blues Attack, or something like that, and it is AWESOME. It was so good last Friday night I almost… Continue

Added by Pass the Ammo on December 14, 2008 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Introductions

Let us know who ya are.

Added by Shane Gordon (Po'Man) on December 12, 2008 at 6:14am — 5 Comments

I see threes

introduction

Ok..

so I was talking to this guy about how to make a chord minor...

and one thing led to another...

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CAUTION. This is going to be a long discussion. PLEASE DO NOT attempt to read it from top to bottom and expect it…

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Added by The Phrygian Kid on November 30, 1999 at 6:00am — 16 Comments

CBG and Blues short stories -Jackson Black Stories 1 - 4

Jackson's Blues by John Bolton

Monday, November 25, 1963

Detroit, Michigan

It was a sad day in this negro man’s life… The day of JFK’s funeral. It was after supper and I was sitting alone in the kitchenette, living room and bedroom of my one room apartment. I was sippin’ Ten High whiskey from a jelly jar and listening to ‘Heat Wave’ by Martha and the Vandellas on WKNR. Not blues, but good music.

Most evenings I will play me some blues. Most evenings I feel…

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Added by Uncle John on November 30, 1999 at 6:00am — 34 Comments

Trying to make a 6-string CBG - 9

So this is where I was a week or so ago. I needed to finish the wood and insert the electronics. Oh, and fix the problem with the frets.

I put two coats of varnish on it, sanding after the second. The mohagony wood looks great. The final color constrasts slightly with the box. I was hoping for that. In this picture you can see that I started on the…

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Added by John Schafer on November 30, 1999 at 6:00am — No Comments

lo-fi not hi-fi

i wake up in the morning to the sounds of a japanese phone made in korea, my coffee is made by a german machine made in korea that makes better coffee than me? i drive a japahese car made in a far off land (tyneside), my 5 string banjo was made in eastern europe... when i play my 3 string guitar i know where it came from, i know intimately every part of its person because i built this instument. it is local to me, an extension of myself, part of me...mine :0)

Added by dogfinger steve on December 2, 1908 at 3:00pm — 5 Comments