Hello John I want to say thank you giving me some hope. I'd been a multi-instrumentalist for the better part of my life. All the usual suspects, Bass, Guitar, Mandolin, Fiddle, Keys, Dobro. Bouzouki, etc. But back in 2013 I suffered an ischemic stroke that almost killed me. It took away my finger dexterity, and hand/arm strength, and some stability in my left side. I was devastated, I'd been a singer, songwriter, and musician all my life (70 + years), and suddenly I can NO longer play anything. Then our son gave me a Cigar Box guitar kit for Christmas 3 years ago. I had been a guitar builder since the 70's so I loved the idea of building one, but the realization that I could no longer play kept me from finishing it, until I saw our videos and the light bulb light up!! I subscribed immediately. I realized the I don't have to form chords with it, I can just "one finger" the notes and try using a slide. Whether this will actually work or not remains to be seen, but at least NOW there's some hope. Thank you. I look forward to watching any of your future videos. God bless: Dave

I love your videos chickenbone John!💚🤠💜💙

Thanks much, Learned more in 10 minutes than 10 years switching up multiple cigar box guitars. Look forward to giving it another whirl Regards David

This is the BEST video on Technique I have seen. Thanks you so much for offering your thoughts on playing.

Excellent job John. Best beginner guitar lessons so far. You just got you a new subscriber. It's nice to know that there's people out there that will show you how to play instead of showing you how well they can play.

A master class thank you so much.

due to an accident i lost the tip of my ring finger. I thought it was the end of my guitar playing. I had to leave the band. 3 string slide will allow me to play again. Thanks for the lesson

Thanks John. I always keep these type of tutorials in my playlist for easy access. I think they're excellent for all player, irrespective of their skill level. They iron out any bad habits that are inevitably picked up over time. I find half an hour or so of exercises each day works wonders.

Really useful lesson John. Thank you for caring about those less talented than you, a good quality have, and you have it in abundance my friend.

Wonderful!! I took away a few new things that nobody's told me/called me on. Loved your description of the left hand like jelly and just taking up enough of the weight of the slide to get a clean sound.

absolutely superb!

Hey Chicken bone! Kool dog here, I learned how much I've been doing wrong just by watching this video. Thank you very much!

Thanks very much Chickenbone John. I only just started playing Cigar Box Guitar about 3 months ago. I cannot play with a Slide properly yet. You explain it very well and you are a great Cigar Box Guitar player. Thanks

thank you for sharing your knowledge. Thoroughly enjoyed that.

Brilliant as usual CBJ can't believe you get time to do a video in between making all them ace guitars mate , it just shows your dedication to your Art,which is so much appreciated,and to those who are pondering About buying a CBJ cigar box guitar ponder no more as I can guarantee that these are top quality instruments and that alot of dedication and love for the music and instrument has been put into every one of them , keep em coming.cheers kev

Really useful lesson, Thanks John

So fun and this makes me want to get ( or make) a CBG of me very own!

Very clear - very informative - thanks!

Thank you for this video... Lot of great tips that explain solutions to several problems I've been having (I've been doing it wrong! lol) Thanks again.... - JD

im starting to make my own cbg's.ive been a drummer since ican remember but have always wanted to play bluesey guitar.the 3 string slide cbg is great ive got 2 songs almost done.

Thank you for sharing skills.

Awesome job.

Great lesson!!!

Hi, and love your video. It's just what I need. I will be finishing my cigar box guitar today (if the parts come) and really looking forward to getting started on it. I do play the guitar and mandolin but never have played a 3 string cigar box. Just the way to hold it is big for me in your video. My box is going to be VERY small so I see you can hold it the classical way. I'm going to have to do that. It's to short. But I'm ok with that. That's how I originally learned on the guitar. Thanks so much for the video!!

you're a legend mate!

Excellent video. Now I know where I'm going wrong!

Glad I dropped by. Not sure about 3 string yet but I think I'll have a go at making one just to find out... Cheers

nicely done....don't worry about what you can't do....do what you can and do it well...your approach is dead on.... oh....and practice

Great stuff, man ...

That's been really really helpful! Thank you for doing this. I'm here in the U.K too so I'm gonna save up and try to buy one of your guitars...I don't have the skill to make one myself. At the moment I'm tyring to do this on a bad 6-String that I've just strung 3 strings on to! Thanks again. Derin

Many thanks..if it helps a few people, than that's good to know.

thanks , very very good, Gaz

Thank you mate !

very good thanks, never gave much thought as to how Im even holding a guitar!

Thanks John Great

Cheers John gave me a good few tips as I'm just starting out

Hi, nice tone there - what scale length/string gauges are you using?

Thx you !!! ;)

Hi, I want to build a cigar box guitar. Can you tell me how many frets you should have on the neck and is the distance between the but and bridge important. I was going to copy my acoustic guitar.

Hi John . . . thanks for sharing, your post rekindled my interest to craft a cigar box. I noticed the frets in your CB which looks like it adopted guitar. If you won't mind, can you give me some points fret to fret distances and the 12/12 distances or the nut to 12th fret and the 12th fret to bridge. Would appreciate any feedback. Thanks and hope to see more of your posts.

cheers

Hey man that was fantastic, I really appreciate it very much. I do hope that you will take the time to put together the follow up video you mentioned... I believe it would be truly beneficial... Thanks again,.

the slide has to be glass it just sounds the best

Super stuff. If you could do some instruction on the right hand - that would be excellent also. Thanks John.

Is this ChickenboneJohn from Cigar Box Nation?

at 12:50 you say you're playing the top and the middle but it looks like you're playing the string on the bottom and the middle string so apparently I've been totally confused as to what "top" means

There isn't another one, unless I have a Doppelgaenger.

What are the best strings and combos to use for 3 string cigar box?

The top string is the highest sounding note, bottom string is the lowest sounding string. That's the normal naming convention for all stringed instruments.

would you do an tutorial on a 2 string as well

i have been searching the youtube sites, but have not come across who plays melody songs using cbg 3 strings, all i see is blues, rock. is cbg only for this type of music

TONY KART.....Hell yea...

Why do you call the Bottom string the top? I'm just learning and that just confused me a little?

I hear of intonation a lot?

just copy your acoustic, or order a fretboard from john

Gdg