Build Your Own CBG - Paperback

by Eric Kasten (Author)

Do you love playing an interesting and great sounding guitar? Or, do you have the bug to build something unique? Using over 200 color photos, this book walks you through two cigar box guitar builds. All the required tools are listed and the parts are described in detail. The electric cigar box guitar build is provided with in depth detail and all steps are explained in simple terms. There are plenty of photos to show you what is being done. The second guitar built is an acoustic cigar box guitar. This build refers duplicate steps back to the electric and focuses on the differences in the build. You will learn how to make fretboards, how to wire the jack, volume and pickup, how to make a solid guitar and how to string the guitar. There are three appendixes that expand on certain build features as well and there is space allocated for your own notes and drawings. All in all, this book contains everything you will need to build the cigar box guitar of your dreams.

Author Biography

Amazon Follow Follow authors to get new release updates, plus improved recommendations and more coming soon. Eric Kasten, born at Bethesda Naval Hospital in 1971, grew up in Eastern North Carolina and Virginia. The son of a Navy Corpsman stationed in Camp Lejeune and Norfolk, Eric joined the Army as an M1A1 Tank crewman. After being stationed in Erlangen, Germany, Eric worked as a Technician for GTE on international telecommunications contracts. In all, he visited or worked in eleven countries. As of 2013, he is in his seventeenth year working in telecommunications. Working and studying, Eric gained his B.S. in Business Management in 2001. While living in Maryland, Eric joined the Screen Actors Guild and worked as background in several major motion pictures, on HBO's The Wire and on America's Most Wanted. He was most commonly cast as law enforcement. He also appeared in the Baltimore Opera Company production of La Boheme as the Drum Major. It was on a Telecom project that Eric met author Lisa Rogak in the Charlotte, NC airport. From that meeting the wheels began to turn and the writing bug grew. It was also recent to then that Eric began reading more books, mostly non-fiction.