My first cigar box guitar
Here's my first cigar box guitar. The frets are crooked, the action is too high (because I forgot that I needed to shave off the part of the neck that's glued to the box), the sound hole cuts into the neck, the neck is split, I shouldn't have used pine for the neck because it will bow, the fret dots aren't centered. And yet it works! I have already started making CBG #2.
If you are interested in making one of your own, I recommend Bill Jehle's excellent DVD: How to Build a Guitar: the String Stick Box Method, and joining Cigar Box Nation, a social network of cigar box guitar makers.
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Mark Frauenfelder
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