https://youtu.be/9894Fqsq6T4?si=7TtrWoKYqjJz3bZz
#ChickenboneJohn shows the basics for fitting a combined metal bridge, adjustable saddle and tailpiece to a cigar box guitar. In the comments he gives a link to his website for his own brand UK made metal bridge/tailpieces.
I have used one myself (so far) and they are great!!
Am really happy to advertise a fellow #Brummie in his business selling UK made kit.
#TheMultiphone
#CBG
#CigarBoxGuitar
#FamilyHistory
Photo from the latest batch of old newspapers added to the British Newspaper Archive on #FindMyPast ... From The People's Friend of February 1900.
An advertisement promoting what appears to be a musical instrument devised in Hades.
In the spirit of #ThereAreNoRules with #CBG ... I converted the pale red six string guitar I was given for Christmas into something new to me.
I replaced the bottom three acoustic nylon strings with a set of top three nylon strings.
Then tuned them (open) as CDEGAC ... in other words as a pentatonic.
(Akin to taping off all the white notes on a piano)
Will it improve my guitar playing ... who knows ... probably not in the slightest :((
*cackles*
The deed is done.
Cannot vouch for the final sound as the lower edge of the bowl touches the top of my legs as I use it so might need to devise a stand/leg for it to rest on the floor without the bowl touching anything.
I can feel the back of the bowl vibrating when I pluck so it will definitely be making a contribution to the playing.
#CigarBoxGuitar ... see my profile.
This guitar's 3rd or so iteration now sees it emulating a tanboura (various spellings) ... the glorious Indian instrument that drones in mind boggling swirls and trills.
I removed the bridge so letting the strings "Sitar" "oiiiinggg" on the steel resonator cake stand plate.
The little white strings are needed for fine adjustment to get the "oiiiiiiinggg" going.
The bowl (from a charity shop) is for the next improvement.
For #CigarBoxGuitar fans and makers of DIY junk guitars (made from junk) ... The last 5 minutes of this film taken by Shane Speal in the Museum of Appalachia is pure pleasure.
Minor upgrade to the diddley bow. Chrome tin pierced fruit bowl put in place of the brassy swirley resonator.
The bridge is precisely 630 from the nut which left the previous marks for A#, C, D and G Octave correct.
Have also cleaned off some of the construction marks.
Will slowly fall into shape :))
#Guitar
#DiddleyBow
#CigarBoxGuitar
My latest creation, Frankenstein-like ... a diddley-bow or single string guitar.
I only mark the 3rd, 5th, 7th and 12th fret positions. The rest are guesstimates between them.
Tuned G so the fret marks are on A#, C, D and G octave.
It rings rather nicely with good sustain.
In other respects it sounds dreadful ... which is 
So Tuesday night last week I was rushed to the hospital with a life threatening #pulmonaryembolism. I was out of the hospital on Thursday afternoon, and by Saturday I was making a bad spending decision on a #cigarboxguitar at the farmers market. But it’ll be months before I’m riding my #motorcycle again (doctor’s orders!).
I restringed it and tied some thinner nylon cord as frets, like you would tie gut frets on lutes. They're roo sliperry to stay in place but I think it's starting to sound more palatable and I can play chords now!
(Tuning is mandolin's GDEA)
It's so bad but pretty much expected with how much nothing I have to make this. Here's me struggling to play this thing. 'Twas fun.
How to „Drawing on metal without engraving. Simple way” . #diy #etching #cigarboxguitar #tailpiece
https://youtu.be/Vwq8T33cORI?si=pwlqTZb3_kI_H09U
Last piece of #music I'm uploading for now:
Rush Hour (All in my Head)
Played on Oldie, my 4-string #fretless #CigarBoxGuitar. Incidentally, Oldie because this #instrument has a Brazilian rosewood fingerboard that is 130+ years old, and originally made into a box by a cabinet maker in Somerset.
#ExperimentalMusic
https://youtu.be/8EaUzUxmUaY
"You Got to Move" - Live Performance - February 2023
https://communitymedia.video/videos/watch/bba37fc5-917f-4a3d-b1b9-65163966df91
Here are some various close-ups of some of the guitars above, as well as a pic of the first ever scarf joint I made which is on the Farnam Drive cigar box guitar. #cigarboxguitar #guitar #homemade #Instrument #luthier #woodworking
Here is my most recent build, which I made for myself, and also the first guitar I actually built from a cigar box. I like to use hole-punched circles from holographic Pokemon cards as fret markers, poor man's mother of pearl. #guitar #cigarboxguitar #homemade #Instrument #luthier
Here are some guitars I've built over the past few years. The necks, freboards, and fretting were all done from scratch. Most of these have been commissions. All the hardware (tuners, pickups, bridges, strings) I buy from CBGitty. #guitar #homemade #luthier #music #bass #cigarboxguitar #instruments #commissions
#CigarBoxGuitar under development. The nut is no longer where shown. Unfortunately the fretboard is too short. Currently have to play it lap (dog) style as otherwise can only play notes from G up to D.
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The glue I used was pritt stick 
as I do my rubbish guitar DIY on the kitchen table & have no wish to get caught up in cleaning up squeeze out or, for that matter, trying to get woodworking clamps in there ... the screws down from the new bridge do all of that in the simplest way possible.
