How have CBG's changed your life??

28 members Latest Activity: Oct 16, 2016

Share how being involved with CBG's has changed or enhanced your life.

Home Made Resonator Boxes 101, v.2.0

232 members Latest Activity: Dec 2, 2022

Beginning Box Building. Nothing too fancy, but functional. For people who don't have easy access to cigar boxes. Other home made non-rectangular…

Shane Speal Concert Network

80 members Latest Activity: Nov 4, 2019

Shane Speal is now booking performing arts centers, festivals and club shows in the Mid Atlantic US region (Pennsylvania, Maryland, New York, New…

Antique Cigar Box Guitars

22 members Latest Activity: May 9, 2018

This is the place to post stories of Old Cigar Box Instruments and photos, If you want to see stuff that is newly uncovered about cigar…

Lap Steel World

176 members Latest Activity: Dec 30, 2021 A group for lap steel admirer's, players and builders.

Self Imports from China

34 members Latest Activity: May 9, 2018 Has anybody had experience with self importing tuners and other musical items from China or Vietnam? What has the import duty been if any? Vietnam…

Wine Box Guitars

82 members Latest Activity: Oct 28, 2021 Drink and build !

Skeesix CBG Pickups

103 members Latest Activity: Jul 22, 2021

Pickups, pickups, pickups! Skeesix CBG pickups, magnetic, piezo, magnets, wire, bobbins, winding, winders, installation, single coils, humbuckers,…

Songwriting 101

44 members Latest Activity: Oct 19, 2021

   For the songwriter who wants to take his songwriting to the next level.  "Good songs are written, GREAT songs are RE-written"!  …

Blind Willie Johnson CBG Tribute - free download

281 members Latest Activity: Sep 4, 2022

Download your free copy of the Cigar Box Guitar Tribute to Blind Willie Johnson.  All cigar box guitar.  Presented by…

Cigar box tunings

162 members Latest Activity: Jul 16, 2014

Cigar box tunings open to 2'3'4'5'6' stringers uke's bass's what ever you got. and how you creativly use these tuning's

2011 Recycled Contest

90 members Latest Activity: Nov 8, 2017

CBGs for Service Members - CLOSED

411 members Latest Activity: Apr 4, 2017

Due to lack of participation, this group is now closed. We keep it archived here for historic preservation purposes.

DOOM FOLK COLLECTIVE

66 members Latest Activity: Dec 10, 2021 A place for posting music and videos exploring music inspired by artists like Olds Sleeper, Purgatory Hill, Crow Tongue and Cracklebone. The "tone"…

Speal's Tavern - a CBG Blues Club near Pittsburgh

85 members Latest Activity: Dec 28, 2017 Shane Speal announces a brand new venue in the Western PA area... Speal's Tavern. Speal's has been pouring since the end of Prohibition...and has…

Can Jo Consortium

250 members Latest Activity: Jan 31, 2023 The simplest little resonator instrument of all. Please add links to plans, photos of your canjos and ideas you've found that make the most of this…

C. B. Gitty Crafter Supply

261 members Latest Activity: Oct 19, 2022 C. B. Gitty Crafter Supply is your one-stop shop for the parts and accessories you need for building and playing Cigar Box Guitars and other…

Percussion Anyone?

75 members Latest Activity: Feb 22, 2019 Cigar box guitar players can lay down the rythm, but who lays down the groove? This groups is for the percussion player in all of us, lets…

It Goes To 11

480 members Latest Activity: Aug 16, 2020 Amps, amplification, effects, hackwiring and general mayhem. Anarchists welcome

Homemade Guitars

64 members Latest Activity: Feb 26

This is the group for homemade instruments that venture out from the standard cigar box guitar.

Post photos of your oil can guitars,…