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At 1:55am on January 28, 2012, David L. said…: I loved the Gasong Drum - what a pure dreamy tone it gives. it was also great to recently see the Art Deco CBG finished - it sounds top quality :O)

At 1:44pm on January 27, 2012, Mama Mojo said…: Sure thing, Penny! I posted the demo to my FB page as well.... and BTW, I LOVE that pic of the gals playing Uke "Bonnie Ann'ee 2012 on your profile page! Awesome!!

At 5:17pm on December 17, 2011, Richard G Caudill said…: Penny ,, I just did one the radio thingies today ,, I found it to b in the volume pot ,,I hooked up red to red ,, black to black and it let me into the speakers ,, without killing any of the properties of the little tape deck ,, it sound good ,,, has 8 ohm and a 1 watt speaker <gonna look for a stronger speaker,same size> it was a child s tape recorder ,, the tape plays ,, it will record ,,has it's own hand held mic ,, I happy danced all over kitchen when it all worked !!! From what i can gather from these guys that really know what they doing ,, make sure u use battery power or the plug in will fry ur pickups ,, not sure about the piezo

At 8:33am on November 8, 2011, Ice Bob said…: I'd love that was that you on the didge?

At 1:26am on October 30, 2011, Ice Bob said…: i loved code of the catus on bemusic's song files keep up the good work

At 5:12am on October 9, 2011, Hippy Chip said…: I am searching for other florida CBG builders and/or players.

So far I have sold only one guitar--a sixer.

I have orders for 5 more. whatever it takes to feed my building habit.

I hope to get more people to learn to play the 3 and 4's

At 4:10pm on October 6, 2011, Hippy Chip said…: I like your work, greetings from the other side of the world, I am in central Florida, and CBG's are not really popular here--- yet--- I plan to change that!!!!

keep up the good work

Hippy Chip

At 12:55pm on September 27, 2011, Richard G Caudill said…: I saw that one someone else's ,,, I didn t wanta cut a hole in face ,, so i followed the example ,, gotta say Penny it surely does make a diffenece ,, git is still loud ,, but u can hear it so much better as the sound come out the top .. if u playing with other people surely makes a diffenece ,,, I think I gonna continue to use that a lot ....

I think it was one of uncle john's ideas ,, not sure glad to have ya as a friend

At 8:24am on September 16, 2011, dogfinger steve said…: Hi Penny, the sound square sound holes don't seem to have much effect as far as i can tell, will have to build a cbg with two tops and experiment:0)

At 7:31am on August 23, 2011, dogfinger steve said…: hey penny, thanks for the shout:0)

At 10:41pm on July 28, 2011, darren brown said…: hi thats ok ,you can look at them here or on face book or http://dbrowncustoms.blogspot.com/ mine are all wax potted with bees and paraffon ,can wind any pole and ohm setting there 55 each ,and thay sound just as fine as all the big name ones .

At 10:58am on July 27, 2011, darren brown said…: hi penny thats not a harison pickup, its one of mine i build them and sell them also.

At 3:57am on July 22, 2011, Glenn Reither said…: sorry - here's the link Penny http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZQDPAzT__Y

At 3:49am on July 22, 2011, Glenn Reither said…: There's quite a few youtube vids of double neck cigar box gats, but this is the one that made me think, yeah! I want to build one of those. The idea of using separate outs and having two distinct sounds by putting them into different amps/fx really appeals.Then I thought OK, what can I do to give the most variation between the two necks? So a slide with humbucker on one (better for slide cos you get more sustain thru the amp) and a tenor scale 4 string on the other which could be tuned tenor (GDae) or whatever but most imprtantly true tenor scale (585mm), and that one on a piezo bridge. So you could set up a nice drone on the slide, and then blaze on the tenor. Even just having a true slide gat and a fretted 4 string on one instrument is very handy. And of course, it's ridiculously over-the-top ROCK so I like that.

At 9:18am on July 11, 2011, David L. said…: Hi Penny,

You asked about the wiring on my latest CBG - I kind of wired it up as I went so didn't have a full schematic (more of a flow chart). It was really made up from a couple of seymour duncan wiring diagrams, a ready made piezo kit (modified to use discs rather than a rod) and an old preamp I had. If you have a particular electronic setup you are thinking of let me know and I'll try and find you a diagram.

Thank you for the interest.

Regards,

David

At 1:11am on July 6, 2011, c# merle said…: hi penny, thanks for the friendship! i've done two numberplate cbgs and the strange thing is no two plates sound the same. luck with the build

At 7:29am on June 26, 2011, Delbarjo said…: thx penny for your agreable comment!!!!!^thx again ;)

At 2:27pm on June 13, 2011, Mama Mojo said…: Hey Penny - thanks for your comments! It looks like you've got quite a collection going there as well! Nice photos, and some really nice builds.... it looks like you are doing great!!! Best, MM