One-String Diddley Bow: Building & Lonnie Pitchford Playing Secrets by Shane Speal

My old fashioned one-string cigar box guitar is done and I'm as excited as a 5-year old on a Pepsi binge! The frets came out great and the tone is soooo authentic. In this video, I show the guitar off, including all parts and then then demonstrate a primitive "rhythmic" playing technique I swiped from Lonnie Pitchford.
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[@SlapthePissouttayew]

I've built about 5 of these now. Can't play worth a damn but they're fun to build and noodle with and give to more musically inclined friends!

[@jllaine]

I'm thrilled to see another one-stringer video from you, some of your much much older diddley bow videos got me started building a pair as my introduction to CBGs. More how to Play Lessons Please!!!

[@bobswieringa1419]

Always enjoy your videos, Shane! Lively and instructive!

[@scottmorrison3199]

Love it..I do slide 1 stringers . I use a screw as a nut and brass bolt for bridge.. Easy and fun to make. Grand kids love em....

[@keithhampton9700]

Black Flag reference on that shirt is Ausome! Great job on D BOW and the shirt. Im building a Bass Canjo as I watch. 👍🤯👍

[@johnfunk4313]

just found you by following a rabbit hole about frets and dulcimers. Very cool info. I look forward to catching up on your videos.

[@birdwoodcbgs71]

I love the analogy of the rocking chair

[@thomasmiller7531]

that's a beauty!

[@seanbeharrell]

Ha ha!! Perfect - nothing sums me up more right now!

[@Heather22056]

Thanks for the video.

[@mistymangham4410]

As you know I'm going to build a LPG... My plan is to do a double neck Johnny Low style. It should be pretty cool. I've decided to use a little speaker running to my jack and that be my pick up. It should work famously.

[@ronellis3857]

I will build a diddly bo just for fun. Quick question, what gauge of wire should I use?

[@marcmayou1422]

I built the CBGiddy Dilly Bow And I put a pizio pickup

[@m.t.76]

I have that same Amp that is in the background

[@olivier04vanneriesauvageet24]

Thanks for tout Channel and " how to play a diddley bow ". What IS a name of song please ? I build m'y first cbg 1 string and it's very cool, thanks on France

[@richardpatman2131]

3, 6, 9 the goose drank wine = "The Clapping Song", Shirley Ellis 1965

[@olivier04vanneriesauvageet24]

@@richardpatman2131 merci :)

[@pauldrowns7270]

A Scott Ainsley performance, the need to think, design and build, the song 'Come into my kitchen,' and you sir, have lead me to 9 cigar boxes...thin/long, large/shallow, deep, square heavy, long square heavy, 2 enameled pie pans, 2 red oak dowels, and 4' of gorgeous 1"x 2" tiger maple. Can you help me establish a starting point? This particular build of your's is of special interest because it's acoustic and aesthetically gorgeous! One stringed instruments have been played since Greek and Roman times, and include gut and gourds in African culture (pre berimbau) all I want to do is satisfy my level of craft and entertain myself (and others eventually). Considering that I've never played a stringed instrument, could you suggest for a first attempt? I can do copper frets.

[@blueykoala3827]

Does the neck touch the lid of the box?

[@trackie1957]

Why not use shellac? So quick and easy…

[@stephenwillis444]

That's nice..

[@mybusiness7663]

Hey Shane where would research old tunes you could practice with a didley bo

[@ShaneSpeal]

Search KZbin for Eddie “One String” Jones to listen to his playing style.

[@mybusiness7663]

@@ShaneSpeal thank you 😊

[@seanbeharrell]

Great video. Really cool little guitar! I’m going to have to try and make one. Loved the way you notched out the neck! It’s a fun thing to do. Do you think that as a beginner - having just one string to think about might help my rhythm hand skills?

[@ShaneSpeal]

Many poor children who started on these became blues legends. So hell yeah, go make a one string!!! Git that rhythm!

[@seanbeharrell]

Shane Speal thanks - I’m going to give it a go! I’ve got the perfect box - gonna even try putting frets in! Rhythm - I’m coming to get you!

[@ShaneSpeal]

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[@BigSifu67]

Did you do that "headstock" with a wood rasp/wood files?

[@ShaneSpeal]

round end of a belt sander

[@BigSifu67]

Wish I still had access to that stuff. I used to work in a shop that made oak furniture. Too bad I hadn't discovered CBG's back then! Your bow looks nice and gives me ideas. Thanks for the vid!

[@williammaclean641]

Love it. For sale?

[@ShaneSpeal]

It was sold a while back. Not too hard to build yourself, though

[@walrtbstudios5430]

That's folk music, in one 15m video. Build 'em, play 'em, love 'em...

[@ShaneSpeal]

...and build more!

[@gkaisersoze]

Nice work as always Shane! I'll finish yet another d.b. tomorrow to play this weekend in a show, adding a metal Fasano pie plate in a cigarbox and a pickup... but mine will be fretless and mostly used w. fingers unless I get a bottle cut for a bottleneck slide... wound string, low D tuning... I find wound strings growl too much for my taste unless using a glass slide. You rock -and I LOVE diddleys! -Glenn

[@ShaneSpeal]

I need to get to Chicago and visit soon. I miss hanging out with you.

[@christopherch7307]

👍❤️👍

[@jasonstreamcast]

Crazy part is, Minnie pitchford is my grandmother.

[@arielgarciaverdes1086]

i need win my cigar box!!!

[@scottconger1266]

Now this is a good video, i have been putting off building one because i thought they had to be perfect, now im going to build one, rite after i go to stubbyslides.com 👍😀

[@LockStoppageSandwich]

Nice

[@leroybryant8107]

My dilly bow is rattling wen I play

[@richardstumph7833]

Cigar box guitar ARE supposed to sound like!!true, 😂