Acoustic Medium 3-String Cigar Box Guitar Strings - Open G/Standard - GBD/GBE

Acoustic Medium 3-String Cigar Box Guitar Strings - Open G/Standard - GBD/GBE, Black Sealed-Gear Guitar Tuners/Machine Heads - 6pc. 3 left / 3 right, 1pc. Rod Piezo with Center Lead for Violin and Cigar Box Guitar, Premium Screened Sound Hole Inserts - Choose Finish Color and Pack Size

My first project. Del Puckett was my go-to source for how-to information. After learning how to play, I will probably create another.

Instrument Build

Acoustic Medium 3-String Cigar Box Guitar Strings - Open G/Standard - GBD/GBE, Black Sealed-Gear Guitar Tuners/Machine Heads - 6pc. 3 left / 3 right, 1pc. Rod Piezo with Center Lead for Violin and Cigar Box Guitar, Premium Screened Sound Hole Inserts - Choose Finish Color and Pack Size

My first project. Del Puckett was my go-to source for how-to information. After learning how to play, I will probably create another.

Instrument Build

Acoustic Medium 3-String Cigar Box Guitar Strings - Open G/Standard - GBD/GBE, Black Sealed-Gear Guitar Tuners/Machine Heads - 6pc. 3 left / 3 right, 1pc. Rod Piezo with Center Lead for Violin and Cigar Box Guitar, Premium Screened Sound Hole Inserts - Choose Finish Color and Pack Size

My first project. Del Puckett was my go-to source for how-to information. After learning how to play, I will probably create another.

Instrument Build

Acoustic Medium 3-String Cigar Box Guitar Strings - Open G/Standard - GBD/GBE, Mocha Pearloid Gold Tuners - Sealed Gear, 6pc. 3L/3R, Premium USA-made Cigar Box Guitar Fretboards - 23-inch Scale - Choose Wood & Fretting Options!

I was so inspired when I found this box at a local tobacco shop. They hold boxes for me that I'm interested in.

Columbus, MS, USA

Instrument Build

Acoustic Medium 3-String Cigar Box Guitar Strings - Open G/Standard - GBD/GBE, Mocha Pearloid Gold Tuners - Sealed Gear, 6pc. 3L/3R, Premium USA-made Cigar Box Guitar Fretboards - 23-inch Scale - Choose Wood & Fretting Options!

I was so inspired when I found this box at a local tobacco shop. They hold boxes for me that I'm interested in.

Columbus, MS, USA

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Chrome Hot Rod 3-string Electric Cigar Box Guitar Parts Pack

I followed the lead from a friend who designs and builds cigar box guitars. I jumped right in a went big on my first one. The kit was fantastic!

Foster City, CA, USA

Instrument Build

Chrome Hot Rod 3-string Electric Cigar Box Guitar Parts Pack

I followed the lead from a friend who designs and builds cigar box guitars. I jumped right in a went big on my first one. The kit was fantastic!

Foster City, CA, USA

Instrument Build

Narrow/Lower Nickel-Silver Fret Wire (6 ft), Shane Speal Signature Cigar Box Guitar Tuners, 8pc. Brass-plated Box Corners (Straight Back), Acoustic Medium 3-String Cigar Box Guitar Strings - Open D Major Tuning (D F# A)

I am a Disabled Veteran cigar smoker and weekend salesman in a cigar shop. About a decade ago, I saw a CBG in a and thought, "oh, cute." Due to an overabundance of boxes in our shop, the manager brought me in one day and told me to find something to do with them, "just get 'em outta here." Reflecting upon seeing the CBG long ago, and after about a month of study via YouTube, suffice to say, 64 of them are now in my possession, and I have virtually zero carpentry experience. Can't wait to show the finished product!

Pelham, AL, USA

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Re-LapZ B-Bender Kit (Original) - get pedal steel guitar sounds!

Added 2 Re-lapz benders to a Goldtone lap steel tuned to open D. The benders raise the F# to G and A to B.

Pittston Maine

How-To

Re-LapZ B-Bender Kit (Original) - get pedal steel guitar sounds!

Added 2 Re-lapz benders to a Goldtone lap steel tuned to open D. The benders raise the F# to G and A to B.

Pittston Maine

How-To

Jescar Medium/Medium Stainless Steel Fret Wire (6 ft), Jescar "Super Jumbo" Stainless Steel Fret Wire (6 ft), 6pc. Enclosed-Gear Guitar Tuners - 3 Left/3 Right - Choose Chrome or Gold, Acoustic Medium 3-String Cigar Box Guitar Strings - Open G/Standard - GBD/GBE

First build- Tuned well and plays well.

Garfield, NJ 07026, USA

Instrument Build

Chrome Sealed-Gear Tuners for 3-String Cigar Box Guitars, Acoustic Medium 3-String Cigar Box Guitar Strings - Open G/Standard - GBD/GBE, 2-pack Large (1.5-inch) Black Oxide Grommets w/Washers, Brass Eyelets/Economy String Ferrules - Choose Length and Pack Size

My first build of what I plan to be many CBG's. Custom fretless neck from salvaged oak. Great hardware and strings from C. B. Gitty!

Shelton, WA, USA

Instrument Build

Acoustic Medium 3-String Cigar Box Guitar Strings - Open G/Standard - GBD/GBE

4th CBG build and it has a great sound.

San Angelo, TX, USA

Instrument Build

Acoustic Medium 3-String Cigar Box Guitar Strings - Open G/Standard - GBD/GBE, 6pc. Enclosed-Gear Guitar Tuners - 3 Left/3 Right - Choose Chrome or Gold

Just built a new 3 string cigar box guitar.

West Palm Beach, FL, USA

Instrument Build

Vintage-style Chrome Open-gear Tuners/Machine Heads - 6pc. 3L/3R, Acoustic Medium 3-String Cigar Box Guitar Strings - Open G/Standard - GBD/GBE

It was fun learning to make the cigar box guitars and even the Altoid tin minis.

Instrument Build

Vintage-style Chrome Open-gear Tuners/Machine Heads - 6pc. 3L/3R, Acoustic Medium 3-String Cigar Box Guitar Strings - Open G/Standard - GBD/GBE

It was fun learning to make the cigar box guitars and even the Altoid tin minis.

Instrument Build

License Plate-sized Acoustic Box Kit with "Box Jointed" Side Panels, "Rail Runner" Hardwood Bridges for Cigar Box Guitars - Laser-cut out of beautiful hardwood!, Medium/Medium Nickel-Silver Fret Wire (6 ft), Cigar Box Guitar Hinge CBG Tailpiece - Choose 3 or 4-String, Jumbo Nickel-Silver Fret Wire (6 ft), Chrome Open-Gear Guitar Tuners/Machine Heads - 6pc. 3 left/3right, 3-pack 20mm Piezos with Leads, 3-pack Neutrik 1/4-inch Mono Guitar Jacks, Acoustic Medium 3-String Cigar Box Guitar Strings - Open G/Standard - GBD/GBE

I just completed these 3 string license plate guitars, and gave them to 2 of my friends last night. I could not have done it without CB Gitty!

Savoy, IL, USA

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Premium USA-made Cigar Box Guitar Fretboards - 25-inch Scale - Choose Wood & Fretting Options!

Premium USA-made Cigar Box Guitar Fretboards - 25-inch Scale - Choose Wood & Fretting Options!, Acoustic Medium 3-String Cigar Box Guitar Strings - Open G/Standard - GBD/GBE, Basic Piezo Pickup Kit for Cigar Box Guitar - Instructions Included!, Jescar Wide-Medium (47104) Stainless Steel Fret Wire (6 ft)

First two CBG I built. Punch built to just see if I could. Cohiba built for a friend per request and traded for an amp. Now I just need to learn how to play!

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Had a lot of fun making it sounds great i love the cigar box guitar.

Smithville, Tennessee, US

Instrument Build

I am an artist not a musician. I wanted to turn a boat paddle into a bass guitar for our city's Riverfront paddle art initiative. Because of the long length of the paddle, the cigar box strings were not used. I used XL bass guitar strings along with the cigar box slotted tailpiece and chrome sealed-gear tuners.

Fort Wayne, Indiana, US

Instrument Build

I am an artist not a musician. I wanted to turn a boat paddle into a bass guitar for our city's Riverfront paddle art initiative. Because of the long length of the paddle, the cigar box strings were not used. I used XL bass guitar strings along with the cigar box slotted tailpiece and chrome sealed-gear tuners.

Fort Wayne, Indiana, US

Instrument Build

I am an artist not a musician. I wanted to turn a boat paddle into a bass guitar for our city's Riverfront paddle art initiative. Because of the long length of the paddle, the cigar box strings were not used. I used XL bass guitar strings along with the cigar box slotted tailpiece and chrome sealed-gear tuners.

Fort Wayne, Indiana, US

Instrument Build

I am an artist not a musician. I wanted to turn a boat paddle into a bass guitar for our city's Riverfront paddle art initiative. Because of the long length of the paddle, the cigar box strings were not used. I used XL bass guitar strings along with the cigar box slotted tailpiece and chrome sealed-gear tuners.

Fort Wayne, Indiana, US

Instrument Build

This was my very first cigar box guitar. Built everything from scratch. There will be many more to come. Thank you C. B. Gitty for the supplies.

During the summer, I’m basically a motorcycle tramp. I live off my motorcycle as I travel around seeing the world. I love to play guitar and it killed me to not have one around to play while on my trips. A regular size guitar strapped to a motorcycle basically becomes a wing and creates an unmanageable situation. Also, there is the risk of it being stolen off the bike or damaged if you drop the motorcycle. Consequently, no guitars on my trips. Finally, in the winter of 2014/15, I decided I would make a compact guitar that I could bring on my trips that would be small and inexpensive. After seeing Ben “Gitty” Baker’s Hobo Fiddle awhile back, I realized he was shooting for the same parameters thinking that they would be what a hobo would require. At the time, there was no Hobo Fiddle and a search of the internet only brought up a handful of images of handmade guitars (By the way, this was the first time I ever heard of a cigar box guitar). Now, a search for pictures of handmade guitars brings up thousands of images. I’m sure Shane Speal, Ben Baker, and Glenn Watt have had a lot to do with that. Anyway, the original pictures I saw inspired me to come up with my own design of an instrument I call the Mototar (MOTOrcycle guiTAR). I used scrap wood and junk I scrounged around my house, as well as fret wire and tuners I purchased from C.B. Gitty, for the build. It fits in a 24 inch waterproof dry sack with my raingear, has 6 strings, cost less than $20 to make, and sounds great around the campfire in the evening. I wouldn’t cry if it got broken or stolen and it is virtually unnoticeable stored within the gear on my bike. That first Mototar took about 50 hours to build and I swore I would never build another. Then, I came up with so many ideas to make the original one better that I had to build a second. After that, people who saw them started wanting one, so I made templates and got to the point where I could build one in 10 to 11 hours. Currently, I have built 22, including a 4 string Motobass. I have made them for friends, family, donated them to the Christian Motorcycle Association for auctions to raise funds for mission trips, and sold a few. They have been on boats, planes, bicycles, motorcycles, rvs, atvs, and backpacking trips. Like the Hobo Fiddle, it is truly a travel guitar. Due to buying all my guitar parts from C.B. Gitty, I became exposed to the Gitty Gang Show and I have seen and enjoyed every episode produced. This led me to an interest in the 3-string cigar box guitar and I have since built 4 Mototar versions of those plus a Mototar 2-string chugger for my granddaughter. I must say I’ve had a great time learning how to play my 3-string cigar box Mototar and the resources produced by Ben Baker, Glenn Watt, and Shane Speal have been indispensable. Now, my greatest dilemma when I take off on my motorcycle trips is which Mototar do I bring, the 6-string or the 3-string? “…ahh, they’re small enough, I’ll bring ‘em both!”

Gardnerville, Nevada, US

Instrument Build

During the summer, I’m basically a motorcycle tramp. I live off my motorcycle as I travel around seeing the world. I love to play guitar and it killed me to not have one around to play while on my trips. A regular size guitar strapped to a motorcycle basically becomes a wing and creates an unmanageable situation. Also, there is the risk of it being stolen off the bike or damaged if you drop the motorcycle. Consequently, no guitars on my trips. Finally, in the winter of 2014/15, I decided I would make a compact guitar that I could bring on my trips that would be small and inexpensive. After seeing Ben “Gitty” Baker’s Hobo Fiddle awhile back, I realized he was shooting for the same parameters thinking that they would be what a hobo would require. At the time, there was no Hobo Fiddle and a search of the internet only brought up a handful of images of handmade guitars (By the way, this was the first time I ever heard of a cigar box guitar). Now, a search for pictures of handmade guitars brings up thousands of images. I’m sure Shane Speal, Ben Baker, and Glenn Watt have had a lot to do with that. Anyway, the original pictures I saw inspired me to come up with my own design of an instrument I call the Mototar (MOTOrcycle guiTAR). I used scrap wood and junk I scrounged around my house, as well as fret wire and tuners I purchased from C.B. Gitty, for the build. It fits in a 24 inch waterproof dry sack with my raingear, has 6 strings, cost less than $20 to make, and sounds great around the campfire in the evening. I wouldn’t cry if it got broken or stolen and it is virtually unnoticeable stored within the gear on my bike. That first Mototar took about 50 hours to build and I swore I would never build another. Then, I came up with so many ideas to make the original one better that I had to build a second. After that, people who saw them started wanting one, so I made templates and got to the point where I could build one in 10 to 11 hours. Currently, I have built 22, including a 4 string Motobass. I have made them for friends, family, donated them to the Christian Motorcycle Association for auctions to raise funds for mission trips, and sold a few. They have been on boats, planes, bicycles, motorcycles, rvs, atvs, and backpacking trips. Like the Hobo Fiddle, it is truly a travel guitar. Due to buying all my guitar parts from C.B. Gitty, I became exposed to the Gitty Gang Show and I have seen and enjoyed every episode produced. This led me to an interest in the 3-string cigar box guitar and I have since built 4 Mototar versions of those plus a Mototar 2-string chugger for my granddaughter. I must say I’ve had a great time learning how to play my 3-string cigar box Mototar and the resources produced by Ben Baker, Glenn Watt, and Shane Speal have been indispensable. Now, my greatest dilemma when I take off on my motorcycle trips is which Mototar do I bring, the 6-string or the 3-string? “…ahh, they’re small enough, I’ll bring ‘em both!”

Gardnerville, Nevada, US

Instrument Build

During the summer, I’m basically a motorcycle tramp. I live off my motorcycle as I travel around seeing the world. I love to play guitar and it killed me to not have one around to play while on my trips. A regular size guitar strapped to a motorcycle basically becomes a wing and creates an unmanageable situation. Also, there is the risk of it being stolen off the bike or damaged if you drop the motorcycle. Consequently, no guitars on my trips. Finally, in the winter of 2014/15, I decided I would make a compact guitar that I could bring on my trips that would be small and inexpensive. After seeing Ben “Gitty” Baker’s Hobo Fiddle awhile back, I realized he was shooting for the same parameters thinking that they would be what a hobo would require. At the time, there was no Hobo Fiddle and a search of the internet only brought up a handful of images of handmade guitars (By the way, this was the first time I ever heard of a cigar box guitar). Now, a search for pictures of handmade guitars brings up thousands of images. I’m sure Shane Speal, Ben Baker, and Glenn Watt have had a lot to do with that. Anyway, the original pictures I saw inspired me to come up with my own design of an instrument I call the Mototar (MOTOrcycle guiTAR). I used scrap wood and junk I scrounged around my house, as well as fret wire and tuners I purchased from C.B. Gitty, for the build. It fits in a 24 inch waterproof dry sack with my raingear, has 6 strings, cost less than $20 to make, and sounds great around the campfire in the evening. I wouldn’t cry if it got broken or stolen and it is virtually unnoticeable stored within the gear on my bike. That first Mototar took about 50 hours to build and I swore I would never build another. Then, I came up with so many ideas to make the original one better that I had to build a second. After that, people who saw them started wanting one, so I made templates and got to the point where I could build one in 10 to 11 hours. Currently, I have built 22, including a 4 string Motobass. I have made them for friends, family, donated them to the Christian Motorcycle Association for auctions to raise funds for mission trips, and sold a few. They have been on boats, planes, bicycles, motorcycles, rvs, atvs, and backpacking trips. Like the Hobo Fiddle, it is truly a travel guitar. Due to buying all my guitar parts from C.B. Gitty, I became exposed to the Gitty Gang Show and I have seen and enjoyed every episode produced. This led me to an interest in the 3-string cigar box guitar and I have since built 4 Mototar versions of those plus a Mototar 2-string chugger for my granddaughter. I must say I’ve had a great time learning how to play my 3-string cigar box Mototar and the resources produced by Ben Baker, Glenn Watt, and Shane Speal have been indispensable. Now, my greatest dilemma when I take off on my motorcycle trips is which Mototar do I bring, the 6-string or the 3-string? “…ahh, they’re small enough, I’ll bring ‘em both!”

Gardnerville, Nevada, US

Instrument Build

During the summer, I’m basically a motorcycle tramp. I live off my motorcycle as I travel around seeing the world. I love to play guitar and it killed me to not have one around to play while on my trips. A regular size guitar strapped to a motorcycle basically becomes a wing and creates an unmanageable situation. Also, there is the risk of it being stolen off the bike or damaged if you drop the motorcycle. Consequently, no guitars on my trips. Finally, in the winter of 2014/15, I decided I would make a compact guitar that I could bring on my trips that would be small and inexpensive. After seeing Ben “Gitty” Baker’s Hobo Fiddle awhile back, I realized he was shooting for the same parameters thinking that they would be what a hobo would require. At the time, there was no Hobo Fiddle and a search of the internet only brought up a handful of images of handmade guitars (By the way, this was the first time I ever heard of a cigar box guitar). Now, a search for pictures of handmade guitars brings up thousands of images. I’m sure Shane Speal, Ben Baker, and Glenn Watt have had a lot to do with that. Anyway, the original pictures I saw inspired me to come up with my own design of an instrument I call the Mototar (MOTOrcycle guiTAR). I used scrap wood and junk I scrounged around my house, as well as fret wire and tuners I purchased from C.B. Gitty, for the build. It fits in a 24 inch waterproof dry sack with my raingear, has 6 strings, cost less than $20 to make, and sounds great around the campfire in the evening. I wouldn’t cry if it got broken or stolen and it is virtually unnoticeable stored within the gear on my bike. That first Mototar took about 50 hours to build and I swore I would never build another. Then, I came up with so many ideas to make the original one better that I had to build a second. After that, people who saw them started wanting one, so I made templates and got to the point where I could build one in 10 to 11 hours. Currently, I have built 22, including a 4 string Motobass. I have made them for friends, family, donated them to the Christian Motorcycle Association for auctions to raise funds for mission trips, and sold a few. They have been on boats, planes, bicycles, motorcycles, rvs, atvs, and backpacking trips. Like the Hobo Fiddle, it is truly a travel guitar. Due to buying all my guitar parts from C.B. Gitty, I became exposed to the Gitty Gang Show and I have seen and enjoyed every episode produced. This led me to an interest in the 3-string cigar box guitar and I have since built 4 Mototar versions of those plus a Mototar 2-string chugger for my granddaughter. I must say I’ve had a great time learning how to play my 3-string cigar box Mototar and the resources produced by Ben Baker, Glenn Watt, and Shane Speal have been indispensable. Now, my greatest dilemma when I take off on my motorcycle trips is which Mototar do I bring, the 6-string or the 3-string? “…ahh, they’re small enough, I’ll bring ‘em both!”

Gardnerville, Nevada, US

Instrument Build

During the summer, I’m basically a motorcycle tramp. I live off my motorcycle as I travel around seeing the world. I love to play guitar and it killed me to not have one around to play while on my trips. A regular size guitar strapped to a motorcycle basically becomes a wing and creates an unmanageable situation. Also, there is the risk of it being stolen off the bike or damaged if you drop the motorcycle. Consequently, no guitars on my trips. Finally, in the winter of 2014/15, I decided I would make a compact guitar that I could bring on my trips that would be small and inexpensive. After seeing Ben “Gitty” Baker’s Hobo Fiddle awhile back, I realized he was shooting for the same parameters thinking that they would be what a hobo would require. At the time, there was no Hobo Fiddle and a search of the internet only brought up a handful of images of handmade guitars (By the way, this was the first time I ever heard of a cigar box guitar). Now, a search for pictures of handmade guitars brings up thousands of images. I’m sure Shane Speal, Ben Baker, and Glenn Watt have had a lot to do with that. Anyway, the original pictures I saw inspired me to come up with my own design of an instrument I call the Mototar (MOTOrcycle guiTAR). I used scrap wood and junk I scrounged around my house, as well as fret wire and tuners I purchased from C.B. Gitty, for the build. It fits in a 24 inch waterproof dry sack with my raingear, has 6 strings, cost less than $20 to make, and sounds great around the campfire in the evening. I wouldn’t cry if it got broken or stolen and it is virtually unnoticeable stored within the gear on my bike. That first Mototar took about 50 hours to build and I swore I would never build another. Then, I came up with so many ideas to make the original one better that I had to build a second. After that, people who saw them started wanting one, so I made templates and got to the point where I could build one in 10 to 11 hours. Currently, I have built 22, including a 4 string Motobass. I have made them for friends, family, donated them to the Christian Motorcycle Association for auctions to raise funds for mission trips, and sold a few. They have been on boats, planes, bicycles, motorcycles, rvs, atvs, and backpacking trips. Like the Hobo Fiddle, it is truly a travel guitar. Due to buying all my guitar parts from C.B. Gitty, I became exposed to the Gitty Gang Show and I have seen and enjoyed every episode produced. This led me to an interest in the 3-string cigar box guitar and I have since built 4 Mototar versions of those plus a Mototar 2-string chugger for my granddaughter. I must say I’ve had a great time learning how to play my 3-string cigar box Mototar and the resources produced by Ben Baker, Glenn Watt, and Shane Speal have been indispensable. Now, my greatest dilemma when I take off on my motorcycle trips is which Mototar do I bring, the 6-string or the 3-string? “…ahh, they’re small enough, I’ll bring ‘em both!”

Gardnerville, Nevada, US

Instrument Build

During the summer, I’m basically a motorcycle tramp. I live off my motorcycle as I travel around seeing the world. I love to play guitar and it killed me to not have one around to play while on my trips. A regular size guitar strapped to a motorcycle basically becomes a wing and creates an unmanageable situation. Also, there is the risk of it being stolen off the bike or damaged if you drop the motorcycle. Consequently, no guitars on my trips. Finally, in the winter of 2014/15, I decided I would make a compact guitar that I could bring on my trips that would be small and inexpensive. After seeing Ben “Gitty” Baker’s Hobo Fiddle awhile back, I realized he was shooting for the same parameters thinking that they would be what a hobo would require. At the time, there was no Hobo Fiddle and a search of the internet only brought up a handful of images of handmade guitars (By the way, this was the first time I ever heard of a cigar box guitar). Now, a search for pictures of handmade guitars brings up thousands of images. I’m sure Shane Speal, Ben Baker, and Glenn Watt have had a lot to do with that. Anyway, the original pictures I saw inspired me to come up with my own design of an instrument I call the Mototar (MOTOrcycle guiTAR). I used scrap wood and junk I scrounged around my house, as well as fret wire and tuners I purchased from C.B. Gitty, for the build. It fits in a 24 inch waterproof dry sack with my raingear, has 6 strings, cost less than $20 to make, and sounds great around the campfire in the evening. I wouldn’t cry if it got broken or stolen and it is virtually unnoticeable stored within the gear on my bike. That first Mototar took about 50 hours to build and I swore I would never build another. Then, I came up with so many ideas to make the original one better that I had to build a second. After that, people who saw them started wanting one, so I made templates and got to the point where I could build one in 10 to 11 hours. Currently, I have built 22, including a 4 string Motobass. I have made them for friends, family, donated them to the Christian Motorcycle Association for auctions to raise funds for mission trips, and sold a few. They have been on boats, planes, bicycles, motorcycles, rvs, atvs, and backpacking trips. Like the Hobo Fiddle, it is truly a travel guitar. Due to buying all my guitar parts from C.B. Gitty, I became exposed to the Gitty Gang Show and I have seen and enjoyed every episode produced. This led me to an interest in the 3-string cigar box guitar and I have since built 4 Mototar versions of those plus a Mototar 2-string chugger for my granddaughter. I must say I’ve had a great time learning how to play my 3-string cigar box Mototar and the resources produced by Ben Baker, Glenn Watt, and Shane Speal have been indispensable. Now, my greatest dilemma when I take off on my motorcycle trips is which Mototar do I bring, the 6-string or the 3-string? “…ahh, they’re small enough, I’ll bring ‘em both!”

Gardnerville, Nevada, US

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