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Learning to play slide on your 3-string cigar box guitar can be hard.But not with Shane Speal's cigar box guitar lessons.Here's 4-part video lesson series from Shane Speal, the King of the Cigar Box Guitar. In it, Shane takes you on a ride from knee-slappin' country licks to sinister murder ballads, giving you the best advice, in the simplest terms, on how to play slide CBG.As with all his videos, each lesson is turbo-charged with his high-energy personality.Add to that his uncanny knack fo …

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Wouldn't it be great to remove mistakes from building cigar box guitars?Mistakes are frustrating, and no matter how hard you try, you'll eventually drill an errant hole, or cut a fret slot in the wrong location.Stop struggling with measurements and the need to double or triple check them for every build. Instead, use a template to transfer the marks you want and dramatically improve your workshop efficiency.Templates are vital to producing consistent and satisfying results on your cigar box guit …

Cigar Box Guitar festival season is a fantastic time of year filled with great music, terrific people, and one-of-a-kind musical instruments. For those of us who cannot attend festivals, there are scores of rockin' videos, shared around the internet, featuring various talented cigar box guitar performing artists. After watching these supremely talented performers rock out on their handmade musical instruments, there are thousands of people inspired to build their own cigar box guitars. …

"You ever get bored playing the same things over and over again on your 3-string cigar box guitar?" asks the King of cigar box guitars, Shane Speal.Shane has been cranking out a ton of videos over the past few months, among which are loads of insanely useful and creative lessons.In one of those lessons, Shane says that before cigar box guitars enjoyed a surge in popularity, there wasn't a standard tuning such as the G-D-g tuning used today.Much like the Wild West days of early America, the early …