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Permalink Reply by Gene Robinson on January 23, 2013 at 6:01pm

Hey!  I remember that stuff! :)

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Permalink Reply by Sharecropper on January 23, 2013 at 12:16pm

  I did spray two coats of polyurethane on a paper box about a year ago .   It has just started to wear through where I pick .  The trim pieces of paper around the outside of the box have come unglued in spots .  Check how well the trim paper is glued to the box and improve if needed !   To easy to rip off chunks when just hanging on !        I would like to always use wood boxes, but they're just not as available to me as paper .        Build on, Gene !

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Permalink Reply by jeff maurer on January 24, 2013 at 3:19am

the fuente boxes ive used have wood sides and back, but the paper covered top is a press board material. its nice and stiff and works just fine. ive also made a cbg with a fuente box and glued the top shut and flipped it over and used the back as my sound board. it was a thin ply and half the thickness of the lid and sounded great. i also like to strip all the paper off and stain the box, but only because i think it looks cooler. i dont do it for because of sound. build a few and use your ears. 

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Permalink Reply by Tom Drommond on January 24, 2013 at 8:59am

Jeff - any pics of the one you flipped and made the back the top?

I'm thinking of doing the Fuente box on the right that way as a 6-string with telecaster guts and stuff. The cool artwork on the lid would be under all of it.  I'll fill the box with a blank made of poplar or red oak and route a proper neck pocket, so I have a strong base to work from.  I curious to see if it looks odd with the lid on the back.

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Permalink Reply by jeff maurer on January 25, 2013 at 4:54am

no pics but you can see the guitar in most off my shed vids from this summer as that box no longer exists(the neck was saved and reused).

and michael is right about finishes, i polyurathaned a box and destroyed the sound. made it sound weak and brittle.

ive never seen an arturo fuente box like yours, that looks nice.

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Permalink Reply by MichaelS Country Boy Guitars on January 24, 2013 at 7:17am

Careful with the thick clear finishes on the box, it may cause some change in sound, better or worse is up to the listener.

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Permalink Reply by Tom Drommond on January 24, 2013 at 9:01am

Not if you play it really loud!!

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Permalink Reply by Tom Drommond on January 24, 2013 at 1:21pm

OK, I'm still laughing at this one. I'm sorry, but I'm busting at the seems.Michael, were you being serious?  If not.  Forgive me but I'm sort of new here. Not real good with forum-speak.

So, if you were being serious, This is what I had to share.

Talking about the sound or acoustic qualities of a cigar box as a guitar body, is like worrying over whether to put gold or platinum fixtures in a mobile home.  Ok, I feel better now. Let's jam...

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Permalink Reply by Gene Robinson on January 24, 2013 at 2:55pm

Man!  He threw down his 'bo.........

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Permalink Reply by Tom Drommond on January 24, 2013 at 6:04pm

So do you think Mod Podge is gonna kill the tone and wreck the sustain? :-)

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Permalink Reply by The Phrygian Kid on January 24, 2013 at 6:18pm

Dude some guys around here put half the kitchen sink on the fkrs!! Heh what's a little glue between friends? If you're the scrapbookin type dentists offices with old women's weeklys abound

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Permalink Reply by Tom Drommond on January 24, 2013 at 7:42pm

I've built two for about $10 and about 10 hours time, well, plus the 2 or 3 more fiddling with them. I hated putting sanding sealer on them. That stuff's $7 a can.  They have been more fun than the Les Paul kit, I just finished...yeah, lacquer...yeah, all that.

These have been way more fun and no worry. Everyone that see them thinks they're cool. I can't play for crap, yet.  Time and practice...it's that they are cigar boxes that sound like wicked blues. That's what hooked me. I just play louder.  At about 10.5, it settles down. Just slide into it. 

Give me a few weeks and I'll have $300 in one just like them. I get how it happens.  I just get to laughing when I see tone quality and cigar box together in the same thought. I'm just sure he was being sarcastic.  

The Lester wore me out.The Great Madeline Kahn said it best, 

 

 

 

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