I've not posted in a couple weeks, but there is a good reason. My wife was diagnosed with a serious heart condition, which required su...

My friend Art took this photo recently while on a trip to Capetown, South Africa.  

I was pleasantly surprised a couple days ago, when I received a note from my 'old' friend Marv. He writes occasionally, but most ...

I recently visited my primary health care doctor.  After exhaustive lab tests, he proclaimed I was doing 'well' for my age.  I jus...

For those of you who are inclined to make your own slides, this jig is the ticket. Jan Westphal shared the idea on Cigar Box Nation, and ...

I have this nasty habit of plowing around through my wife's silverware whenever I need a special piece of hardware for a guitar.  I'...

Passing a kidney stone is not quite as simple as the old kidney dropping them by the sack full. Leading up to my birthday, I celebrated la...

James "JD" Dalbec | Visit Guest Book James L. "JD" Dalbec, 72, of Great Falls, died of natural causes Wednesday, ...

Purists will tell you the only 'real' way to build a cigar box guitar is with hand tools.  Progressive builders like  the speed asso...

I mentioned that when I was shopping at the secondhand store, I spied a really cool item for a neck strap. It looks like a belt some hippy...

I saw a photo several weeks ago of a bed warmer turned into a single-string instrument.  It was a pretty crude example of what I thought cou...

The suspense is over!  You can now see what I created from the bed pan referenced in an earlier post. A '50s style unused female b...

A San Latano Requiem Maduro cigar box has become the body of a really cool three-string electro/acoustic slide guitar.  I chose a full frett...

Just the other day, I was searching eBay for unusual objects and I ran across this old bed pan.  It was offered for sale by a lady from nort...

Limitations associated with decoration for your CBG is in direct proportion to the expanse of your imagination . . . there really are no lim...