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c# merle's Videos (52)
CBN beatles Full Album
cbg members interpretated The Beatles. thanks everyone who took part c# merle Jun 6 83 views
the gypsy gang's christmas job
bummed i missed the album this year but such is life. little original tune for, season's greetings! c# merle Dec 24, 2022 100 views
prettywoman
hey everyone, jamming up the tune 'pretty woman'. keeping it simple after Lifelines11:28, big-o i a… c# merle Nov 2, 2019 96 views
Lifelines 11:28
hey everyone, here's some adventures in jamming c# merle Sep 14, 2019 100 views
social media blues
some jamming. or is it #jamming ? c# merle May 23, 2019 62 views
how to swirl paint a cbg
i use Marbling Paint though other paints might work c# merle Feb 14, 2019 186 views
one more cup of coffee
this is the beautiful Chiapas region of mexico with a dylan/levy tune i've always liked c# merle Oct 3, 2018 102 views
ballad of emmett till
my son is studying the civil rights movement at school just now so i thought i'd help him out. man… c# merle Sep 22, 2018 118 views
outlaw blues
jamming some bob dylan on homemade instruments c# merle Sep 9, 2018 104 views
flat earther
so, is the earth flat? a guy at work swears it is... jamming with richard sundberg c# merle Aug 29, 2018 102 views
tweeter and the monkey man
some traveling wilburys on four string licence plate guitar c# merle Aug 12, 2018 116 views
The rising tide
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line in the sand
motorhead on homemade guitars. c# merle Jul 28, 2018 104 views
pleasentville
composed by anders on homemade guitar c# merle Jul 22, 2018 102 views
one soul tonight
jamming up a riff with Richard Sundberg. thanks ritchie c# merle Jul 14, 2018 102 views
sociopathic superstar
homemade jam with Silent Jim. so, is one born evil or does one become evil? c# merle Jul 8, 2018 104 views
bollo i'm your dawg
a fairy tale composed by anders on cigarbox guitar c# merle Jun 30, 2018 116 views
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Best power tool for building?
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Cutting down the neck of a CBG
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hardtail bridge for 6-string license plate guitar
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Building with vintage paper/pressed board cigar boxes.
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Cigar Box Nation Christmas Album 2023???
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Fat Back Neck
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Sliders only.
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Back of the box or the lid?
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Sound holes, do we need them?
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Sound holes, do we need them?
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Neck and Fret Board material.
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Cigar box piccolo ukulele string gauge
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Aw, nuts......
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Latest build.....
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humbucker height
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Pin Tin Banjo
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EBE tuning
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Attention New Members
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Buzzing strings when fretted. Frets look good. I have a zero fret license plate guitar. Break angle I can inprove at the nut however the buzzing is coming from the bridge, I used a banjo bridge.
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Building a gas can guitar
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Who will be the first to embed GO in CBG? =)
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Man & A Half ~ the Delta Blues Outlaws
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My first CBG from Captain Nemoff.
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I have not been 'round in a long time.
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New Album 2023
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