Please post pictures of your contest submissions here. Be sure to include any pertinent information about your instrument that you think others, including the judges, would enjoy knowing.
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When the submission period ends on 12/31, I will be deleting all comments from users that are posted in this thread. To make it easier on the judges, this thread needs to end up with just the posts from the contestants. It makes it difficult for the judges if they have to wade through scores of pages of posts to find the actual entries.
Feel free to post away, just know that this thread will be cleaned up once the submission period is over.
Good luck and good building!!!
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Sorry I didn't read the rules. It's defiantly a tone monster.
Here is the "Black Pearl", a custom baritone resonator uke. The Neck, heal and headstock are carved from a single block of Mahogany with a carbon fiber truss rod installed. Fret board and accent wood is Rosewood. Republic resonator cone and cover plate. The laminate on the headstock was cut from another cigar box and milled down to veneer thickness.
Here is my contest entry - The "Swamp Thing" Six String Guitar.
A Monster 29.5 inch Scale Length, 30 Chromatic Fret, Cigarillo Tin Resonator, Piezoelectric Beast.
The neck is Sinker Cypress, with a Cherry Wormwood Fretboard. The fretboard is sloped to bridge the resonator, mandolin style. The Swamp Thing Figurehead is a modified Swamp Thing action figure holding a swamp thing CBG.
The Tatiana Flavored Cigar tin says Groovy Blue, but it is PURPLE! And then it hit me. When it comes to music and monsters combined, there is only ONE... The One Eyed, One Horned, Flying Purple People Eater. Sorry if you're too young to remember the song!
I've had the “yard sale found” horn for a while. The gold/purple marble eye, wings and brass spike teeth were in my box of accent goodies. After showing him a CBG I'd made about a year ago, a fellow at a yard sale in the Florida Keys parted with a box of walnut scrap that his father gave him after doing custom cabinetry at Conway Twitty's home. This build is worth a Twitty 24 ¾” scale fretboard and bridge. The volume and tone knobs are from a Farnsworth 1940's portable radio. The neck is poplar with a light purple wash. The headstock and one toed/clawed tailpiece are a purple metal flake finish. Headstock, neck, tin, and tailpiece all have a protective clear lacquer coat. A rod piezo rests under the walnut bridge. I've used a zero fret with s/s screw string guides instead of a nut for a truly comfortable action. An off white corian saddle compliments the walnut and gives great sound transfer. Side marked/burned fret markers leave the walnut fretboard to show off it's beautiful grain. Re-cycled sealed gold tuners donated from a repair job emerge into the Monsters mouth. A through body neck, to string through tailpiece, give it great sustain. The tin gives a nice canjo/banjo flavored sound, and three strings (GDG) are still my favorite...
Remember, it's a build, not a playing contest, when listening to the sound samples, whether on YouTube at http://youtu.be/jcb8A1nj8xs or from my CBN page in MY MUSIC titled OEOHFPPE. There is a PPE intro, acoustic demo, then amped demo with some effects through a VOX VT20+.
Thanks for the opportunity to participate, and good luck to all!
Here’s my “ode to leatherface . chainsaw blood soaked , cigar box guitar .
It’s headless , (pun intended ). turners are inside the box , the quick access skin flap closure allows for easy tuning on the fly .
The pickup actually (fittingly ) is an electric / mag backroom buzzer from the meat packing dept, of a local grocery store that was torn down .
I mounted it ABOVE the strings , under the chainsaw body wood piece . it works great , I added an earth magnet to it to give it even more balls .
The sound hole is made to look like a broken window , with metal mesh screen from a jewelry box door . and clear hard plastic cut up like glass shards . there are tools hanging on the wall inside .. (a wooden bloody sledge hammer I made , and a mini hack saw ( I have no idea where I got that . weird doll house stuff I guess )
I glued images to pieces of wood , then cut them out and applied to top of the box to get the 3d effect .
The skin is pieces of the rubber hand I trimmed off when making my Halloween build . .. the mask is actually 3 pieces and actually sewn together with real thread . then applied with staples , and it is raised as a mask would look .
I actually drilled holes into the front of the box and used jute to sew actual large stitches in the box .
Chainsaw blade is a bmx bike chain , and actually does not really impair playing , nor hurt you hand at all . it is stepped back and out of the way ,, any riding along it with your hand is smooth . if it happens .
Ebony bridge , - drywall screw nut , - poplar neck .- rocky patel cigar box body .
Strap buttons are “bloody painted meat hooks “ (eye screws ) that actually hook into the bloody apron guitar strap that goes with it ..
(funny story .. I actually was questioned by the police after I splashed red paint on the apron and hung it on the clothes line to dry .. it seems a passer-by-er saw it , and raised enough suspicion to alert police about it .. they came to my door with a funny look on their face … after explaining everything .. they left looking at me even weirder. lol
Anyway ,, I hope I get a better reaction from you guys then I did from them ;-)
Hey Guys... Ok here is my entry...The Wolfman... It is my first bass cigarbox guitar...34" scale with two jazz pickups...control panel with glow in the dark indicators... sticker made fret markers with a wolfman for the 12th fret... The box is a Undercrown cigar box... glow in the dark side markers... Copper frets with one silver... The lid is turned over to place the wolf head in center... String holder/Tailpiece is a polished piece of bent galvanized steel... Bridge and pickup bezels and faux truss rod cover made from a dark green poplar and stained with red mahogany... Bridge nut made from solid brass round stock
I wonder who the wolfman is here??
LOL...It's me..... Gitz Ooooorrrrrrrrrrr Corley
I give you GOSSAMER! From Looney Tunes. Famous enough for ya?
19" scale, tuned DAd.
Check out the toothy grin, evil eyes and sneakers! Decals and painted Mr. Potato Head shoes.
Poplar neck with red oak fingerboard. Red lacquer on the neck...
The business side. There ARE soundholes but all that fuzz deadens the sound. pickup isn't fully wired yet. A buddy of mine who does that kind of thing is helping with that on Wednesday. Then I'll post a video.
Googly eyes make plants less threatening, and the same goes for CBGs! Red-headed screws for fret markers.
Yes, Virginia., it IS a cigar box. A little Ashton Panatela box.
Hi !
Let me show you ....
....
" RACULA T'MAN "
My new three string CIGAR BOX friend.
She is very happy to participe the 2012 CONTEST !!
She was born on 2012 November, somewhere near PARIS in FRANCE.
She sounds very good and I am very happy to show her to you ...
......
My dog is very pleasure with this new sound at home !
She was born one night on a shit of paper,......after reading the CIGAR BOX NATION.
Some plywood, aluminium and CIGAR BOX later ....
Three weeks later, she is able to speak !
And now, SHE IS LOOKING at you !
RACULA T'MAN is now with us.
It was a very great pleasure to build her,
It was a very great pleasure to spend time with her in my mind
It was a very great plaesure to read CIGAR BOX NATION from FRANCE every nights
Very, very Great pleasure
...
A lot of good things for 2013 !
KOMING SOON !
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