Haufcut, Electro-Acoustic, Partagas Tenor C.B.G.

Haufcut, Electro-Acoustic, Partagas, Tenor C.B.G.

A lovely sounding tenor CBG, made from a cool Partagas Cuban cigar box. Electro-acoustic, and tuned GDAE. ON SALE NOW !!!

Haufcut, 4 string, Fretless, Deco-Canjo

Haufcut, 4 String, Fretless, Deco-Canjo

Made from a really nice, deco tin, with an oak neck, 4 chrome tuners, a key bridge, cordian nut, piezo pick-up and fretless, for slide playing - Tuned AEaC# (low to high)

BATCAN

BATCAN

Here is the BATCAN - A canjo made from a cool, Batman 'Gadget tin. Fitted with a piezo pick-up, and (finally) completed with bat fret markers, 24 nickel frets, 4 chrome tuners, oak neck, mahogany fingerboard, bone nut and key bridge - Tuned GDAE

and here's a quick video clip from when it had dot markers

Scotty Dog Canjo

Scotty Dog Canjo

JUST COMPLETED - The haufcut instruments Scotty Dog electro-acoustic, 4 string Canjo. (Oak neck, mahogany fingerboard, shortbread tin body, 17 steel frets, gold floral markers, key bridge, chrome, geared tuners, piezo-electric pick-up, mono jack socket.) - Video below...

TUNINGS - For 6, 4(8) and 3 Strings

Tunings

Following today's YMI 'Soundwaves' workshop at SENSE Scotland's Touchbase centre, I thought I should list all the tunings I like to use here: There are no real rules, but it's probably best to tune down to a note, rather than up, to begin with, to avoid broken strings. Having said that, if you think about a standard set of guitar strings EADGBe - It should be fairly easy to figure out that tuning a string that is made to be played in E up to a high A is going to cause problems. - I reckon, if you are lucky, it will break beyond a high G - Prove me wrong!

6 Strings

EADGBe - Standard tuning

EADGae - Pentatonic
ACDEGa - Petatonic 2

DAdGad - Dadgad or Modal D (that's what they call it!)

DAdF#BE - Jojo's tuning

EAC#eae - Open A

DAdF#ad - Open D

DGdgBd - Open G

DGCgcd - Led Zep (Rain Song)

CFcGcD - Cittern

GBDgbd - Dobro (my favourite)

EADeea - Balalaika

AGCEae - Charango

CEGA#cD - Overtone
CEG#ceg# - Major 3rds
CGDgBc - Admiral
CFcGA#F - Buzzard
DAdGBE - Drop D
CGDgAd - Face
DAddad - 4 & 20
ABEF#aD - Hot Type
DACGcE - Layover
CFcGAE - Magic Finger (Seriously!?)

There are lots of others!

4 Strings

Or 8 - Most using middle 4 strings from a set

GDAE - Tenor (mandolin / fiddle / bouzouki)

AEaC# - Open A (What I use)

GDgB - Open G

DAdF# - Open D

CGDA - Tenor Banjo

GCEA - Ukulele

DGBd - Mini Spanish (my  second favourite - Also the 'main' strings on a 5 string banjo)

Paired Tunings

DGdd

DAdd - (Appalacian Dulcimer)

EAee

3 Strings

The following are named after the paired strings, and adaptable to any key.

DAd 

AEa

GDg

EAe

GgB - My favourite -  with a low and high G

PLEASE SEND ME SUGGESTIONS / CORRECTIONS - Cheers.

Rocking Chair, Shotgun, Claymore CBG Boogie Video

Rocking Chair, Shotgun, Claymore CBG Boogie Video

Another quick video - This time a CBG tuned to A

Tartan Twins

Tartan Twins

The two 'Peek Freans', West Highland, Shortbread Tin Canjos Together.

4 String Tartan Canjo

4 String Tartan Canjo

Just Completed...A second Canjo using a Tartan Peek Freans Shortbread tin:

Specs::

Peak Freans Shortbread Tin Resonator

White Oak Neck

Mahogany Fingerboard

24 Brass Frets

Tartan Markers & Headstock

4 Geared Tuners

Key Bridge

Brass Nut

Piezo Transducer Pick-up / Mono Jack

4 Strings (Tuned DGBD low to high)

£80 (£75 to gig-ing musicians!)

Great Tuning - DGBd

Great Tuning - DGBd

The 'Mini Spanish' tuning. Great sound on the little 'fish' CBG

Robert Johnson style Slide Blues

Fret-less, Tennis Racquet Banjo - 'Broken Hearted Fairytale'

Fret-less, Tennis Racquet Banjo - 'Broken Hearted Fairytale'

Video - With Construction photos.

'Broken Hearted Fairytale' by Alex Harvey

Electro-acoustic Gran Corona 4 String CBG

Electro-acoustic Gran Corona 4 String CBG

On Sale NOW !!!

Gran Corona CBG

Gran Corona CBG

Pretty looking and sounding great. Electro acoustic 4 string, mahogany neck and fingerboard. 24 brass fretd, abalone marker dots, piezo transducer pickup.

It sounds like this :

New 4-String, Electric CBG, With Bolt Lock Bridge

NEW 4-String, Electro-acoustic CBG, With Bolt Lock Bridge

Completed today, This CBG is made from a Montecristo Box, with an American white oak neck, mahogany fingerboard, white marker dots, 24 steel frets, 4 chrome tuners, bone nut, brass bolt lock bridge and 11 brass sound hole grommets. It is tuned GDgB using the middle 4 strings from a Martin acoustic Set. I've fitted a piezo transducer pick up and a standard, mono jack socket.

Here's a video of me trying it out.

Apologies for the singing and playing!

TO BUY THIS GUITAR

(at non-gallery-commission price)

Leave me a message, here or on the facebook page, or e-mail mrjonthehat@yahoo.com before March 21st 2013. CHEERS !

**DISCOUNT RATES FOR GIGGING MUSICIANS IN RETURN FOR AN ENDORSEMENT!!**

Electric Resonator CBG

Electric Resonator CBG

Resonating metal plates attached to the sound holes of a CBG can give it a very bluesy sound, (like a dobro). Tin plates, perforated brass sheets, mesh, metal pot lids, shower and sink drain covers...all are worth experimenting with. The position of the resonator(s) is up to you. Try positioning the bridge on one, and see how it sounds. 

Here is a video of my favourite Electric Resonator CBG

How to build a 4 string Tennis Racquet Banjo

find an unwarped old wooden tennis racquet

cut and shape a headstock

 fit tuners and ferules

make sure one side of racquet head is smooth

 sand down one side of the handle

make a tension ring to fit inside the raquet head

Cut and sand the ring to size...drilling inside the ring helps saw access

pegs or scrap wood will hold the ring in place

get an old drum head

glue and staple the cut head to racquet and glue headstock

carefully drill pegs and add screws to hold tension ring in place

fit a bridge and nut

 add screws to the tail to hold strings

tune and play