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Style: Guitar Kit
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- Blues Legends Such As Jimi Hendrix, Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Lightning Hop Kinds And Carl Perkins Bean Their Music Careers Playing Cigar Box Guitars
- Over The Last Decade, There Has Be A Resurgence And Renewed Interest In All Things Homemade, And A Groundswell In Cigar Box Instruments Is Well Underway
- Cd Contains Over 20 Tracks
- There Are Hundreds Of Youtube Clips Dedicated To Playing The Cigar Box Guitar
Brand: Hinkler
Body Material: Plastic
Guitar Pickup Configuration: piezoelectric
String Material Type: Nylon
Guitar Bridge System: Fixed
Number of Strings: 4
Item Weight: 2.48 pounds
Product Dimensions: 25.6 x 8.4 x 2 inches
Country of Origin: China
Item model number: EBB
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer: No
Date First Available: September 16, 2016
Body Material: Plastic
Guitar Pickup Configuration: piezoelectric
String Material: Nylon
Number of Strings: 4
Guitar Bridge System: Fixed
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Style: Guitar Kit
I haven't been able to put this thing down since I bought it. So much fun, great sound, a steal at this price. What This ISNT: A three stringed version of a 6 string fretted guitar What This IS: This is much more like a lap slide guitar that you can hold up tucked under your strumming elbow like a ukulele. The strings are tuned GDG, so you can one-finger bar cords up and down the neck. The strings are the three middle wrapped strings of an acoustic 6 string guitar pack (not the low E, but the three next ones up. They are light guage, its explained in the book as well. The fret markers are decals because this is meant to be played fretless, with a slide only The action is very high, which makes it forgiving when learning to use a slide. (If you WANT to fret chords or notes, I imagine all you would need to do is to replace the nut and bridge bolts with smaller diameter bolts until you get the action you want, the bolts just lay across the instrument and held in place by string tension - makes it easy to adjust the intonation) The neck is actually finished very nicely, with sanded edges and a clear poly coat; but it is still a square 1x2 board instead of a rounded neck ------because when you play with a slide, you press very lightly on the strings, as opposed to gripping the neck firmly to fret awkward chord shapes The only thing you have to "put together" are to put the little brass string ferrules in place at the bottom, string it up, put the floating nut and bridge in the clearly marked places (they are held in place by string tension), tune it up, grab the included slide and start shredding the blues. There are very complete and detailed instructions explaining all of this. The instruction book and CD could be sold for at least $15 by themselves as an intro to blues slide playing and guitar use. This guitar comes basically finished. The neck is sanded and finished with a clear coat. It is fretless, but there are fretmarker decals under the clear poly coat, so they wont ever wear off. The tuning pegs are attached, the through-neck is attached to the cardboard body, the body is already cut with F-holes and it actually sounds great acoustically. However.. IT IS ALREADY SETUP WITH AN ELECTRIC PICKUP! Its a piezo electric pickup (meaning it will acoustically pick up every bump and scrape against any part of the instrument, almost like a microphone) and there is no volume knob, which is a little annoying ... but at this price point, you can take it out of the box and plug it straight into a practice amp or headphone amp and play around with crunchy distortion, no soldering needed, no retrofitting, it is god to go out of the box. (If you want to use a practice amp, id recommend starting out the volume low and pointing the amp away from the guitar or stand back to avoid feedback.) Again, it is a cheap pickup, but having it already installed is a huge value. Speaking of box, the body is sort of an imitation cigar box. Its made of that same compressed cardboard of a cigar box (think like 2-3 layers of dense jigsaw puzzle piece cardboard) with a cigar box printed decal stuck/laminated on top. It is actually surprisingly sturdy, and the large size combined with the f-holes (sound holes) gives it a really nice volume, projection, and tone. My girlfriend is amazed at the sound I can get out of it acoustically, its great for playing in small rooms acoustically. The slide is very wide, but very thin walled, and medium length. Functionally, this makes it very light and easy to use for little hands, but will fit even the biggest finger. The trick with the slide is to put it on your ring finger and hold it between middle finger and pinky, so it doesn't matter that the slide hole diameter is large. Again, instructions are in the booklet. There are enough licks in the booklet and cd to get you started playing and improvising leads for basic 12 bar blues and blues-rock. After that I recommend checking out some Justin Johnson videos on YouTube. If I could give this thing 10 stars, I would. It's probably worth more like $60 at LEAST. You can buy a soprano uke for less, but the setup and intonation will be crap compared to this one. Only complaints is that where the neck meets the back of the body, its a little loose and makes a "stick/unstick" glue-tape sound that the pickup amplifies when I plug it in. Only a problem if I stand and hold it tucked against my body with my strumming elbow like a uke since it puts a little pressure right there, not a problem if I play sitting down with the guitar in my lap.
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Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2017 by Amazon Customer
Style: Guitar Kit
Will Not break the bank, let's you learn at an affordable price. The guitar comes complete , you only have to string it and place the bridge in position. This model has a pasteboard/hardboard (no wood) body and no frets - it is a true slide guitar.
Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2023 by BR-549
Style: Guitar Kit
I bought this because I'd always wanted to build my own, but was afraid it was too complicated. Over all, it not bad. The build construction is good and the over all finish is nice. Apart from putting on the strings and sliding the two bolts under the string, there's nothing to assemble. So I wouldn't actually call this a "kit". (Many professional guitars have bridges that come off if there are no strings). Anyway, in terms of playability; The Neck: If I try to play this fingered rather than using a slide, I find the corners on the slab neck uncomfortable after only a few minutes. - I'm not expecting an expensive pro Fender neck or anything, but the it's about a 1/2 inch too wide on top and bottom, which means the strings sit in the center of the neck and your hand has to stretch over two 90 degree corners of the wood-block to play the strings. Kids would likely find this more difficult. (I will probably sand off the sharp back edges). With a neck scale so short, there's really not a lot of tension on the strings, so I think the width of the neck is a bit over kill. I don't think a narrower neck would bend. But that's just my opinion. String Height (action): I found the action to be quite high when this arrived. It's marketed as a "Slide Guitar Kit", so I can't fault Hinkler for selecting the particular height. Personally, I prefer a combination of slide and fingered notes while playing. So I ended up swapping out the neck bolt for a narrower bolt and the bridge bolt for an Allen Key. It brought it down significantly, but sharp neck corners and additional width mentioned above make it (still) a little difficult to barr chords. Intonation: Over all, the intonation was what you would expect form an instrument constructed to resemble a home made cigar box guitar. But my ears are very pitch sensitive. - An easy fix for a rough intonation adjustment is to slant the bridge about 10 degrees. Making this adjustment with the original threaded-bolt bridge caused the string to bend or pop out of the thread slots. - Using the spare Allen key meant the bridge was smooth and didn't distort the string when adjusted. Still, I found the intonation to fall apart on the 11th fret. (One fret short of an octave). So doing a lead part on the high G over a low G drone meant the note on the 12th fret was 3/4 of a step off - ie not in tune. Pickup (Piezoelectric Transducer): This guitar comes with a fairly straightforward piezo $2 pickup. There's no volume control. (I didn't expect one). But be aware that it's very sensitive and prone to feedback. - My one complaint about the piezo is that it seems to be mounted just under the bridge. I'm not sure if this is to save cost of an additional 4" of wire required to mount it up by the neck, but if you're a person who mutes with their palm or places their palm on the bridge to strum or pick, the piezo will pick up every thunk, slide or movement louder than the string tone. This also makes the guitar sound a lot brighter when amplified. Thus contributing to it's tendency to feed back. - I haven't opened up the box to see if there's enough cable to move the piazo location. But it's an easy fix regardless. - Moving it to the neck should improve the tone, sustain and hand-noise. CD & Book Content: The one last thing to mention is the book and CD the comes with the package. The book is laid out well with easy to read chord shapes. Beginners should find it easy to follow. The CD is a mystery to me. (LOL). I no longer have any computers that have CDROM drives. So I haven't listened to the content on the CD. A suggestion to Hinkler would be to provide a download link in the book for the content. They could save money on CD printing, be Green and provide the audio content to a wider (re: modern) audience. (Given that we're all buying online, one can assume we are able to download the content). Maybe that might help drop the price closer to $30 rather than $40. Overall. I think this is a fun little guitar that kids and beginners will enjoy. I've been playing for 37yrs and like pulling it out from under my desk at work so I can noodle around while I think. Given everything mentioned above, I think this would have been a more worthwhile purchase if it had been $10 cheaper. That said, having held one in my hands, I now know now that it wouldn't be too difficult for me to make my own.
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Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2017 by Nina Szeven
Style: Guitar Kit
Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2023 by Craig Craig
Style: Guitar Kit
My son has played guitar for awhile. He likes blues. This was a fun gift for him and a great learning tool. Even though he knows about the parts of the guitar, it was really interesting for him to put them together "from scratch". He did not use the blues book or online resources included, but he is still planning with the guitar. It's really a great gift for someone interested in guitar regardless of experience. Also it's a super reasonable price and great quality.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2023 by Kindle Customer
Style: Guitar Kit
I don’t like the squared neck and the action is too high. So I used a wood rasp on the neck, and chiseled out the nut location to lower the action…..and now it’s so fun to play. I plan to buy one more.
Reviewed in the United States on February 18, 2023 by Hyde Grijalva