Cigar Box Guitar build ..... Having a go Youtube.

A Cigar Holder?

The catnip made into a cigar for the cats to smoke?

wow, what a selection... no idea, bookmarked to find out tho!

You're going living in the wild for the entire duration of the xmas period at the place shown on the photo, living off nothing but cigars, sweets and whatever animals you chose to kill (by either fly fishing, or perhaps bare knuckle brutality) and put on the bbq. To make the experience a bit more festive some delightful jewellry is provided for your other half or yourself should you choose. The catnip is to distract the cats whilst you are away, and the coin/pick/eyelets must have just been in the bottom of the box by accident!

Sorted.





Looking forward to the real answer..........................

Glad someone could see where I was going with my post. ;D

cigar box pinhole camera?

AND THE WINNER IS : dungbug !!!

Well done that man.

I got it in one, as I had seen them before.

I will now change the title.

The build should commence as soon as I find 3foot of hardwood in 2x1 inch configuration.

Here.... have some pics and a Youtube of a CIGAR BOX GUITAR.

I will be keeping to basic accoustic, maybe electrify one if I get into it.

These were all built by Gary in Oklahoma. He makes the jewelery and fishing lures too.

Most traditional CBG's are three string, but people prefer 4 string and some make up to 6 stringers.

They work well for the blues.








And a combo built by another guy.





Specially for the winner.

A six stringer.



And a 3 stringer. "Belinda"

Now I'm going to have to spend my time hunting for a cigar box. I was going to make a slide lap guitar but i now fancy one of these. Oh where to start.

I've made a couple of what could be considered cigar box guitars, one with what was a wooden cutlery box, and the other a tin game box that had a murder mystery weekend game in it.

Neck on the cutlery box is a hemlock decking rail spindle, a little too narrowish and too deep for a neck, but 3 strings is OK, fretted with wooden cocktail sticks, and the neck on the tin one a planed down pickaxe handle fretless. If you have a band saw you could split a hardwood pick handle into two and make two. A guy on the "Cigar box it's an addiction" made a complete guitar out of pallet using the pallet wood for the body and the neck.

electrifying is easy, you can do it basically using a basic 27mm piezo element from Maplin and a 1/4" guitar jack.

My two sound totally different, the wooden box lack resonation but sounds OK through an amp, the tin box sounds more like a cross between resonator and a banjo.

I have been using medium acoustic strings, but have just picked up a couple of packs of electric lightweight strings as I have had trouble getting them to tune to DAd for open playing. The electric strings should tune up easier under a lower tension.

One event not to miss is Boxstock in West Bromwich, I went to the second one last year but couldn't afford the 3rd one this year as I am broke again LOL.