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DADD tuning . My favorite guitar build yet. Cigar box guitar/dulcimer even has a neck made from over 25 cigar box laminated strips. I think it has a nice tone for this song-even if I don’t do the song justice! Enjoy.

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Just built this today. Was a shit load of fun and cost me, like, .00! Bitchin. I love it. As I say eighteen million times in this video. To those listening and saying, “That sounds like shit!” That’s the point, honestly. Go listen to some old delta blues The grime makes it beautiful. With that spirit, I distressed the whole thing.

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This is the first amp I’ve ever made and I couldn’t have done it without the leaflet “How To Build A Cigar Box Amp” from Smojo. (If you want one Smojo can be contacted at smojoguitars@yahoo.co.uk) I used a Montecristo cigar box, a Kemo MO32 12 watt amp module and a 4″ 4ohm car speaker. It’s powered with a 9v battery (didn’t want to do anything linked up to the mains while I’m still SO inexperienced!!) If you want to see some photos, including one of the inside have a look here www.cigarboxnation.com I’m playing my 3 string Red Dog Cigar Box Guitar…if you like the sound, check out this site reddogguitars.com or John McNair’s YouTube channel www.youtube.com

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check out this site www.3-string-guitar.com to learn everything about the cigar box guitar, I also have a cool blog with lots of fun stuff at cardboardguitar.blogspot.com This is a left handed cigar box guitar that I am playing upside down and backwards, It would sound much better if I was left handed but you can get and idea of it’s super thick tone….This things melts like butter!

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My 4th cigar box guitar. It’s got a piezo mic and 15 frets. I’ll be happy to answer any questions. Please leave a comment. (and ignore the flaws, I had had a few beers) The tuning is GDGB. Do you know the first tune I play??

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Here is a simple arrangement of the blues classic “Statesboro Blues”. I’ve got the 4 string fretless cigar box guitar tuned to open G (GBdg) which makes it easy to play the song on a single instrument and still manage to add some Duane Allman style slide. While the song is played in the key of D, Duane Allman had his guitar tuned to open E and played the song around the tenth fret. To match what he did I like using the open G tuning GBdg and centering my playing around where the 7th fret would be (if I had frets). While this open G tuning may not be as popular as other open G tunings (namely the DGbd open G tuning), I think you’ll find it great for call and answer blues riffs. If you are interested in all types of homemade instruments like cigar box guitars, washtub basses, diddley bo, ukes, banjos, canjos, kalimbas, mandolins, fiddles, dulcimers, stompers, drums, flutes and more then be sure and check out the Handmade Music Clubhouse handmademusic.ning.com Another great community is the Cigar Box Nation with free plans on how to make your own Cigar Box Guitars www.cigarboxnation.com And for the best in Cigar Box Radio listen to what Rev. Nix is playing at www.cigarboxradio.com scrubradio.com Stink Finger Radio: Wed 8-9 PM est Rev Nix MOJO Medicine Show: Fri 4-6 PM est

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Shane Speal test drives a handmade Wesley Carl cigar box amp using a gorgeous 6-string cigar box guitar built by Tom “Mezzy” Hiles. Get free plans for cigar box guitars, amps and other instruments at www.cigarboxnation.com

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Thanks to all who uploaded how to videos on cigar boxes. Thanks John and George for great music. Thanks Wife….for putting up with me for 45 years!

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Shane Speal test drives a handmade Wesley Carl cigar box amp using several cigar box guitars. Get free plans for cigar box guitars, amps and other instruments at www.cigarboxnation.com

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I am always surprised when I get emails from people saying that piezos and internal guitar pickups sound tinny or feedback when they put them on cigar box guitars, I try to tell them that when they use a door buzzer piezo or converted ringers from radio shack, that it will of coarse sound harsh (by the way, it is still cool to use door buzzers and homemade pickups, its totally fun to be creative and resourceful) but if you are expecting more, just spend 20 bucks or so for a real guitar pickup that is made for cigar box guitars and acoustic guitars. Lastly, I often hear how it is not possible to overdrive them to get a humbucker sound, once again that is a myth, the most important part is the pickup used and the construction of the guitar….setting up the sound correctly might help too! I plugged this simple jjb-electronics PPS-100 pickup into a 90′s distortion (Killzone 5) pedal and drove it strait into my wall amp and turned up the gain to max, then tuned down the volume till most of the hum went away that the cheap distorion pedal makes… and …..there you have it….an almost ‘humbucker-ish” sound, no feedback, no tinny sound, just full on electrified balls in your pants sizzlin’ like grandma’s bacon…..anyone can do it if you use a pickup from jjb electronics, you can make your cigar box guitar sound great and it will offer a more enjoyable time when you play it…..just shoot on over to jjb-electronics.com, ask for Jessie and get the basic pickup, or spring for …

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My first build. We ruined the first neck we made out of maple but this one works fine. :p

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Tom “mezzy” Hiles demonsrates one of his CBG’s From T.Hiles Handmade Musical Instruments Paired Up with An All-tube amp from Vintage 47 Amps.. Both available at www.www.vintage47amps.com. Stop in and check out the other great Items available there , Including CBG gig-bags, Braided straps,medicine bottle slides, CBG stands, and more.. CBG’s are available there in 3 and 4 string. All T.Hiles CBG’s at Vin47 come standard with mezzy’s handdrilled and filed Bridge plate and have new individual roller saddles. Making for perfect intonation. The strings load thru the body for added tone and resonance. Each has new sealed tuners,metal frets,250K volume and tone pots, Chrome knobs , strap pins, and a single coil magnetic Pickup, If you like tubes, a piezo just doesn’t push the tubes enough to bring out that tone… The bridge is something Mezzy came up with allowing the higher nut for slide playing when you want higher action. When easily removed ,it leaves you with a lower action Like that of a traditional guitar, nice for finger fretting…. Mezzy does custom builds aswell.. send a message here on youtube…

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To hear more, visit the Blind Doughboy website at www.troutwrapper.com This is a 3 string CBG built from a Romeo y Julieta Aniversario box. The action on this particular instrument is incredibly fast. It’s a sheer joy to play! If you want to see more of the guitars I build, just visit www.troutwrapper.com

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Here is a clip of a CBG I made and recently sold. The first bit is an acoustic improv in the tuning CGCD. That is followed by a bit of blues played through a handmade cigar box amp with a custom speaker cab.

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here’s yet another cheap project cause times are tough rite now and resourses aren’t really available do to present financial struggles but i make thmost of it with this cigar box guitar that cost VERY little to make. the slide is from a wine bottleneck so enjoy again it is a bit rushed do to low battery on this mini camera …but enjoy )

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www.3-string-guitar.com visit that site if you want to build your own…it is easy! I am getting ready to make another one of my 1884 Delta Blues guitars…aka “The Delta Tramp”, I love these old raggity boxes, they are usally always all beat up or wopped up and need allot of work….It’s all worth it in the end….if you want to learn more just Google “Red Dog Guitars” there is a bunch of stuff on my site.

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