A challenge to all you cigar box guitar builders

Not a cigar box guitar but a challenge to your instrument building skills. Check out this baby and see if you can make one for me :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmoJj9cvOJU

Not a cigar box - a salad bowl guitar

Mooching around the web for unusual guitars I found this site. They are made from wooden saladbowls, have eight strings and sound like Indian sitars. They're great. You can only access certain areas of the site if you register but you can hear a soundclip without registering. Click on the music tab to hear it. I'm thinking of making one.

20 top slide guitarists

If you want some inspiration for your slide playing, check out the playing of these guys:-

Mississippi Fred McDowell
Robert Johnson
Bukka White
Son House
Muddy Waters
Blind Willie Johnson
Elmore James
Hound Dog Taylor
Homesick James
Taj Mahal
Bonnie Rait
Johhny Winter
Ry Cooder
Rory Gallagher
Duane Allman
Chris Rea
Jeremy Spencer (early Fleetwood Mac)
George Thorogood
David Gilmour
Joe Walsh

Read about these and more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Slide_guitarists

Be sure to check out my other posts regularly here at :-
http://www.smojo-cigar-box-guitars.blogspot.com/

del.icio.us - a useful site for you

How would you like a favourites list you can access from any computer you use to connect to the internet? You know the problem, you're at work and in your lunch hour you want to check out that great cigar box guitar site you found last night. You saved it to your home PC favourites but you're using your works computer right now and you can't remember it's address.

well I Just discovered this useful site that lets you do that and created an account (free). It allows you to bookmark your favourites to the web to be accessed from anywhere and any computer. Also you can choose to share them with all members of the site or just your selected friends. They can see what useful favourites you have. You can also create a network of people linking to your favourites. To look at my favourites click the link - not much in it yet but I've put some great sites related to CBG's and unusual instruments and I'll keep adding to it. Also there's a button in my links section to the right of this page where you can go to my del.icio.us site. There's another button if you want to add yourself to my network. Feel free to try it.

see my new cigar box guitar web site

In a previous post I mentioned I bought a couple of domain names. I wanted to make a cigar box guitar site to show you my stuff as this blog has it's limits. Do you want to see it? It's very basic as I am using some free webspace from my ISP and diverting my bought domain to it. It's a starting point. I intend to design a much better one later but for now as time is in short supply this will have to do! I'd like to put some sound clips of the CBG's on it but don't think it will support it. I haven't got my head round what I need to do to record it to MP3 yet either. Here's the link, I have some more stuff to put on it yet though.

www.smojomusic.co.uk

Technorati

I've just signed up to Technorati and created my profile there - it's a site for bloggers and I'm hoping it will bring a few more visitors here. Still "playing" with it and not sure what it can do yet. I have added a special link but haven't got much in there yet. Check it out from time to time though.

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weird instruments - inersouster

Found this great blog site and it's got me inspired to make some weird stuff. Haven't got time yet as I need to make more CBG's but I started collecting items for possible instruments. We went round a car boot sale and I bought a steel bowl and some cheap bongos. Thinking I might cut the two bongo drums apart and use each one as the body for a small banjo like instrument. Have a look at this guys stuff - it's brilliant.

http://inersouster.blogspot.com/