I got a slide from Randy at Mojo Bone Works the other day. Randy makes beautiful slides from bone and a variety of other materials, mostly exotic hardwoods. These slides are absolutely gorgeous! These pictures don’t do it justice. This model is a half & half, with bone on one side and cocobolo hardwood on the other.

I can’t play slide to save my life, but I gave it a few licks anyway. The bone produces a mellower tone than the metal or glass slides do. It also has a less “slippery” feel to it, meaning it doesn’t skitter all over the strings like the metal and glass models do. I think it gave me a better feel of the strings.

You can check out a Mojo Bone Works slide in action on YouTube (NOT me playing):

These slides can be purchased online at:

C B Gitty

My buddy Elmar in Vienna Austria makes some really nice low profile magnetic pickups that are perfect for installing on cigar box guitars. No need for cutting out large portions of your box lids to accommodate a standard magnetic pickup. Just drill a hole to feed the wires through, attach the pickup to the lid and you are done!

Visit his site for more details:  www.original-flatpup.com

There will be a Skype audio conference call for people new to building cigar box guitars this coming Sunday, January 29th. Click on the link below for details:

Cigar Box Nation Skype Call

The CBG building community at Cigar Box Nation recently held a building contest. The members built some absolutely amazing instruments!

The winners were announced here:

Contest Winners

To see all the contest entries, have a look here:

Contest Entries

I’m sure you will be surprised at the workmanship and ingenuity of cigar box guitar builders!

Here is a wonderful Christmas song composed and performed by Sugimugi from Austria. He uses CBGs to play it, and used Windows Paint and a simply animation program to create the video!

The 2011 2011 Cigar Box Nation Christmas Album is available for download. This is a free download of 19 songs on cigar box instruments.

You can get your download here:

2011 Cigar Box Nation Christmas Album

If you also grab the 2010 and 2009 free downloads, you will have over 60 songs!

Enjoy!

I have had a few people say that they did not get an email reply from me. I managed to contact one of these folks by phone, and we discovered that my email response wound up in his spam folder.

I get my email on my phone, and usually respond very quickly, and I seldom take longer than a day to get back to someone.

So, if you send me an email and you don’t see a reply, please make sure you check your spam or junk mail folder to make sure it didn’t get filtered by accident.

Thanks!

Here is Keni Lee Burgess playing one of my creations.  You can purchase Keni Lee’s 3 string guitar instructional videos here on Humidor Guitars.Com.

Check out these absolutely gorgeous hand made wooden flutes by Brian from NVFLUTES.COM!! These are all handcrafted from a variety of exotic woods and would be a wonderful compliment to music played on a HumidorGuitars CBG! Make sure you stop by his site and check out all the instruments.

The cigar box guitar is an international phenomenon. Here is a clip from the Roadhouse Blues club in Moscow, featuring a guy named Capt. Nemoff playing Kansas City Blues.