Hinkler 3 String Electric Blues Box Slide Guitar Kit (EBB)

I play accoustic and electric guitars, with ukelele for fun. when this turned up , I was over the moon. the parts are easy to assemble, What is most important is the book and cd which come with it, they are invaluable for a beginner. Overall, a good piece of kit, especially through an amplifier

Absolutely love it So much fun to play, and easy to put together.

Really like this for the money it’s great as long as you are aware that it’s strictly for slide guitar a lot of fun easy to play

Easy to build and good quality

Strings broke while tuning

exactly what i was expecting

It's a bit naff, cant stay in tune, strings awful, scale too short for the tuning. Action is higher than most buildings. But maybe change the strings and chuck a smaller bolt in to reduce the action at the nut and maybe it will improve. Might not i just went and bought a proper CBG instead. But it was cheap and fun. Am giving it away....

plug and play

El producto llegó muy rápido, es muy fácil armarlo, y es muy divertido usarlo, lo compré junto con un mini aplificador danelectro, recomiendo mucho esa combinación. La caja parece de madera pero es de cartón, si es un poco frágil. pero por el precio me pareció muy muy buena adquisición.

This is a great package for the price. Not only do you get a small book with audio CD to learn some basic Blues Guitar Techniques but you also get a functional / playable cigar box (Style) guitar - The guitar sounds really good when put together right and it's not difficult to put together. Everything you need is included except for a tuner. The Cigar box is not a real cigar box and is made of cardboard; however, it is sturdy enough and if taken care of, it should last a while. My children enjoy playing with it and so do I. The neck is solid wood which is good and the tuning keys are better quality than I expected. The built in pick up also works really well. Considering everything you get in this kit, it's a fantastic value.

タイトルのとおり、3弦仕様のボール紙製シガーボックスギターです。写真ではフレットが打たれているように見えますが、ガイドラインを引いただけのフレットレス仕様となっています。自分でフレット打ってやろうと思ってカスタムしてみましたが、手に負えないほどのフレット音痴となり断念しました。おそらく、フレットラインとラインの間を抑えるのを想定して造られているのだと思います。 【致命的な欠陥】 ナットの直径が太いので、1フレット目は絶対にチューニングが合いません。私は細めの六角レンチで代用していますが、それでも3弦の1フレットは音痴になります。 悪い点ばかり羅列してしまいましたが、本体がボール紙製なのでとても軽く、ブルースプレイ専用のトイギターだと割り切ればアリだと思いました。あと、ピエゾピックアップ内蔵なのでアンプへの出力も可能ですが、ボリュームやトーン調整は出来ないので間にプリアンプ的な役割を担うエフェクターを経由した方が良いかもしれません。

Original

After months of being obsessed with blues music and also while starting to play guitar from zero, one day I suddenly discovered the existence of this "Cigar Box" Guitars. Together with their little brother "Diddley Bow", they looked so interesting to me, although apparently pretty difficult to buy online especially being self-made instruments. Weeks later, while browsing Online Music Shops, I randomly landed into a "Miscellaneous Guitar" section: I got so euphoric when I noticed this CBG (acronym for "Cigar Box Guitar") offered for this incredible low price! I was incredibly happy, already dreaming about me playing the real old blues with a cool CBG, and since I had a great Amazon Giftcard waiting for its opportunity, I placed the all-in searching for this item on Amazon. Could you believe it? YES! Amazon offers this product for the very same price you would pay anywhere else, together with their always amaz-ing service, especially their "Shipped from Amazon", merging the reliable benefits of any Amazon's purchase (such as Refunding etc.) together with the quality work offered by their Warehouses, Couriers and most of all by their employees, probably the very best reason why I love ordering stuff here! As if this wasn't enough, I've been even able to give a special purpose to that Giftcard, which wouldn't have been otherwise possible to use on any other shop around. Now to the product itself: Although its woody-look, the guitar is actually made of pressed paper, which makes it still solid but incredibly light. Its low weight makes it a bit difficult to play, as the guitar would stick to your thumb and come together with your hand while sliding, but practice makes the master! On the other side, being so light makes it easy to carry around for some nights of fun under the open sky in summer. Mounting it isn't that complicated at all (and definitely easier than building a CBG literally from scrap), but the instructions on the manual may not be enough if you never ever stringed any guitar in your life; since I already know the process as I did it for my E-Guitar before, I've been able to properly mount it pretty fast and without even paying much attention to the actual instructions, which are still absolutely useful for any other mounting-tip you may not know (as I didn't, too). Apart from stringing, the rest is pretty easy and absolutely well explained, and if you still have doubts there are few videos online showing the whole process! The guitar comes together with a slide, especially since without it one would neither be able to play it at all, being "fretless". Really appreciated the rest of the manual with playing lessons accompanied by the CD included, delivering instant learning and guaranteed fun for literally everybody. The whole manual itself is a great source of informations, perfect place to start if you never touched a guitar and yet so interesting to read if you still don't know much about the origins of Blues and how Cigar-Box-Guitars contributed to its sound it from the very beginning! Last but not least, the audio output is all what you need if you want the blues and you want it LOUD! Maybe not the best quality out there, but for this humble price you can't literally ask anything more to get started on CBG! Do I really need to write "Recommended"? ;)