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Not really any precision involved but here is the latest CBG. Quick to make and you can actually play them...if you know how.
In keeping with the 'made from found objects' tradition, I used a shower drain strainer for a resonator on this one and a a door latch strike plate for the string head. I did use purchased tuning keys, they make it so much easier.
This is a three string, what you normally would expect for a CBG but I have made one four string. Though that really moves it out of the Cigar Box guitar realm and more into what we would think of as a traditional musical instrument. Ukeleles and such have four strings. No frets on this one either it is meant to be played with a 'bottleneck slide'.
I have one more to make, which I might add a piezio(sp) mic to for amplification. Maybe I'll try frets on that one also. That should be the last unless someone else, for some unknown reason, asks me to make one for them. Then I would ponder the person and decide.
Perhaps my next endeavors will be a few 'diddley bos'. ?????
In keeping with the 'made from found objects' tradition, I used a shower drain strainer for a resonator on this one and a a door latch strike plate for the string head. I did use purchased tuning keys, they make it so much easier.
This is a three string, what you normally would expect for a CBG but I have made one four string. Though that really moves it out of the Cigar Box guitar realm and more into what we would think of as a traditional musical instrument. Ukeleles and such have four strings. No frets on this one either it is meant to be played with a 'bottleneck slide'.
I have one more to make, which I might add a piezio(sp) mic to for amplification. Maybe I'll try frets on that one also. That should be the last unless someone else, for some unknown reason, asks me to make one for them. Then I would ponder the person and decide.
Perhaps my next endeavors will be a few 'diddley bos'. ?????
