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This section provides access to tips and tricks related to Roots Instrument building that are intended as supplemental material to The Folk Art Instrument Builders Reference.

 

Building tips:

 

Instructional videos:

These video's are for 3 string cigar box guitars. The tuning is DGD

Stairway to Heaven

Folsom Prison Blues

Hey Joe

Johnny B. Goode

How to build a cigar box guitar and many other folk instruments
Hand spun aluminum resonating cones for cigar box guitars

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