All Videos Tagged project (Cigar Box Nation) - Cigar Box Nation

The Gateway Pacific Terminal Project by Silent Jim

2014-11-11T14:12:41.880Z

Written & performed by Silent Jim. As the climate change doomsday clock keeps on ticking, corporate polluters are eying Asia as a new market for U.S. coal. M...

"Journey to the Stars" 3 string Cigar Box Guitar surf music cover with Flanger effect

2012-07-14T02:55:40.079Z

Just a simple arrangement of the surf rock classic "Journey to the Stars"...played on a 3 string Cigar Box Guitar I made... with a little echo and a little bit of Flanger thrown in for good effect

4 String Mutant Cookie Tin Banjo-Dobro-Slide Guitar "Unplugged" Mark Stowe

2011-10-01T19:43:12.766Z

Playing the Mutant Cookie Tin Banjo/Dobro/Slide Guitar that I made. . .
The body is an old cookie tin and the neck is a 3 foot 1/2
... the tuning gears once belonged to an old beaten up and broken classic guitar.

This is "Unplugged" or acoustic . . . even though I do have it wired for sound with a Piezo Transducer, I wanted this video to give an example of the instrument's natural sound. Sorry about the ground or white noise in the video, ...I tried to use an equalizer on the video to remove the white noise but it altered the tone of the instrument, so I decided to leave the sound alone with no equalizer

I got the thing tuned to this weird (top to bottom) D-D-g-d tuning, which I thought sounded cool

3 String Cigar Box Guitar - The Living Room Session Blues - Mark Stowe Fretless Slide

2011-09-05T17:16:40.368Z

Nothing special, just playing one of the 3 string cigar box guitar that I made myself. Tuned to E-B-e with a $2 Radio Shack Piezo Transducer 273-073 taped inside for a pick-up and an old DOD overdrive pedal running through a Peavey amp. . .

One String Guitar Thing - Diddley Bo- Lap Slide - Junk Project

2011-08-11T13:13:42.988Z

A simple one string "diddley bo" lap slide guitar made from an old piece of wood a couple of nails, a Piezo Transducer 273-073 from Radio Shack, a 1/4 mono input plug, a piece of wood for the bridge, a rubber band, a small tin can, a roll of tape and one old guitar string.
The Piezo Transducer 273-073 cost about $2 at Radio Shack, I also got the 1/4 mono input plug and extra wire at Radio Shack. . . everything else I found around the house.
The tin can originally housed cough drops, but you can use a tuna can or snuff can or any number similar of items. I removed the Piezo Transducer from it's plastic shell and tape it into the tin can. I place the guitar bridge (small piece of wood) on top of this. You can tune the thing by moving the bridge up and down the neck of the guitar

Nothing about this is original, it's just my version of a basic Diddley Bo