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Post by quarry on Jul 23, 2006 15:42:02 GMT -5
I didn't have a real cigar box, so I made my own. I made a few goofs, but it still plays/sounds really nice. Poplar box with Birch top and bottom. Red oak neck, with frets. Nut from an old strat (nut was broken at the 5th string). Bridge is an old bolt. Sealed tuners. Radio Shack piezo transducer as pickup.
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Post by eljib on Jul 25, 2006 4:28:36 GMT -5
That's COOL! How long did it take you? How did you do the frets? What scale length?
Great job, -Aaron
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Post by quarry on Jul 25, 2006 15:08:12 GMT -5
It was quite easy to build... took about four days, but only working a few hours each day. It could have been done is less time, but I don't have many woodworking tools, so I had to drive over to a friend's and use his shop for some of the cuts. I bought some narrow (as in banjo) pre-cut frets on eBay very cheap. I cut the fret slots with one of those "Japanese" saws (or detail saw), and pounded them in with my hammer and a block of wood. The neck is a 24 3/4 scale, much like a Les Paul. I built the box just as a square box, then added the "wings" to make it look more guitar-like... Then I cut the neck out of a 1x2 of red oak... I used a chart that showed the fret spacing to lay out where to make the fret slots. I didn't bother being too exact. One boo-boo I made was drilling the tuner holes too close to each other. I was not able to mount the tuners parallel to each other; they're a bit "cocked"... Oh well... I cut the f-holes with a little saw bit that goes into my exacto knife, then cleaned it up with a dremel tool. The neck actually has a very slight taper from the body to the headstock... That was a bit tricky. I didn't have a router table, so I had to use a table saw. I rounded the back of the neck with a rasp file and sand paper. Its was actually really fun to build! I found a real cigar box, so I'm gonna use that to build another one soon! ;D
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Post by johan on Mar 16, 2007 8:17:06 GMT -5
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