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Permalink Reply by Bluesheart on June 2, 2012 at 10:34am

It will be hard to find cigar boxes that big. If you were able to cut the top out of that one, I don't see why you could not make a simple box out of say 1x3 pine and some thin ply for the back.This would be easy and inexpensive, and you can make it just the right size to fit the plate if you want. Check the pics here for plate guitars and you will see lots of ideas.

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Permalink Reply by Ron "Oily" Sprague on June 2, 2012 at 5:52pm

Vick,

 

I build my own boxes using nothing more than a handsaw, a rechargeable drill, some clamps, some 3/16" lauan plywood, some 1" squared pine stretchers cut to fit, some screws to stiffen up the edges, and some Elmer's Carpenter's Wood Glue. My boxes are 12" x 10-1/2" x 3-1/2", but you can design a box to fit a license plate; I've got two upcoming builds where I'm gonna hafta build boxes for them, because it's tough to get cigar boxes where I live, and finding the right size is even tougher. Check out the pics on my Profile Page, and you can see how my boxes are constructed. There is also a Discussion Group here at CBN called Homemade Resonator Boxes 101 v2 that has numerous plans for building your own boxes with simple hand tools.

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Permalink Reply by Vick Griffin on June 2, 2012 at 11:28pm

@Bluesheart @Oily SONT Fool  Thanks for the ideas and the encouraging words.  Just starting on a huge work project, so my building time will quickly become limited for the forseeable future.  But I'll start my homework and see if I can't build my own boxes.

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Permalink Reply by Ron "Oily" Sprague on June 3, 2012 at 12:31am

Vick,

 

You're welcome. I constructed my boxes a little bit, maybe 30 minutes-one hour, at a time, over several nights. At the end of two weeks, both boxes were basically done. Just turn the TV off, put on some music, and it goes faster than you think ;-)

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