Saw Ben Prestage last night in a small bar on Cocoa Beach...He was playing a guitar & De"LOWEBOW"...His show was excellent!Ben and The"LOWEBOW" had everyones...
Willard, Ben had a boatload of praises for your diddley bow when I had the museum on display in Huntsville. He probably played it more than anything else in...
I have a scale length of 28.5. Real long apparently. Next will be 25.5. But that aside, I know I am overthinking it. We strung it up with the ADG strings and...
MAudio makes some great stuff. I have some things made by them as well. You won't be disappointed! My recording equipment, some of it, dates back to the 80's...
Maybe the simplest way to think about it is that octaves are determined by halving the length of a string at any given pitch. In other words, if you have a...
You just count up... the A string on guitar is A 110 Hz (I give the Hz just to distinguish it from A's in other octaves)... for the 5th fret, count up 5 half...
I just joined and cant wate to dig into the CBG plans. I've been looking all over the net! I will post pix when I get it. This will be my first CBG so wish me...
The link below is for a string tension calculator. http://tinyurl.com/2l8nfs http://www.greenmanhumming.com/html/StringCalc/Multistringcalc.html Unfortunately...
Many CBGs at " The Biscuit" this year. Bill Able has a cool one made out of driftwood. KM Williams on one and two string " Shorty" Lowebows. John Alex Mason on...
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Welcome aboard. Shane's not wrong. Once you build one, you'll have to make another and another and another... Have fun! --Bill...
Driftwood? Now that's cool. I bet it's lightweight. ... out of driftwood. KM Williams on one and two string " Shorty" Lowebows. John Alex Mason on Hill Harp....
It depends on the guitar I build. If it has an adjustable truss rod and a real guitar bridge, I'll measure the action with a feeler gauge and give the guitar...
Here's a string tension calc in pounds. Written by a luthier in the yahoo tenor guitar group. It's not particularly user friendly, and there's no documents....
Thanks guys. That's me just being me on the guitar. I have a whole concept CD in mind that'll be chock full of that stuff. I want to push cigar box guitars...
hi thanks for letting me into your group. I got a cbg on ebay from reddigguitar.com it has 4 strings and a pick up with fretted palor sized neck. i like to...
Welcome to the group. I might use AC#EA for slide and/or ADGB or ADF#B for fingered play. More likely, I would restring it with either the top 4 or bottom 4...
haha thanx for the warm welcome guys. I have already had to rethink things. the prevalence of neck-through designed styles is telling me I should start there...
Elderly music ( http://elderly.com ) has inexpensive tuners that I use. For the four string open D, build around a 24" scale and use top four strings from a...
... use. ... four ... use ... Hey Doc,I just wanna say even though I've been building CBG's for about a year now, I'm still learning, and you and several...
Hey dudes and dudettes, If you are looking for a supplier of cheap parts check here. I order from them regularly and they distribute a quality product with...
And beware that some folks have had very bad experiences with them - like orders never showing up. I've only order from them once and had no problems but it...
Every gig I've played (yes EVERY ONE) with a cbg I've gotten about 10x the posititve response from the audience than anyone else on the bill that played a ...
Just a little endorsement for Elderly Instruments ultra cheap tuners... I've had 'em on my beat-up and battered Macanudo for 11 years now. Still no problems...
I haven't personally had any luck ordering from these guys.... They took my order last summer, then were totally unreachable for the next two months. They...
