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Permalink Reply by Seaman Jay on July 16, 2012 at 5:35am

Yarr...

1. Make it paddle shaped. Or boat shaped.

2. Use twisted rope for bindings

3. Attach 2 carabiner for the strap

4. Cut the "compass rose" soundhole

5. Anchor shaped bridge?

6. Neptune's trident shaped headstock

7. Paint it navy blue/white

8. Use red wood for the fretboard, paint 3,5,7,9 and 12 fret white (lighthouse colors)

9. Use pine, sand it hard to give it a "sea-washed" look.

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Permalink Reply by Bad Finger (Eric) on July 16, 2012 at 5:57am

I think I have a box from Myrtle Beach I'd part with. I seem to remember it has a boat or lighthouse or ocean scene on the seal.

I'll snap a pic when I get home.

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Permalink Reply by Bad Finger (Eric) on July 17, 2012 at 6:36am

My memory was wrong.  I do have a box from Myrtle Beach - Carolina Cubanos, but it doesn't have a nautical image.  My bad.

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Permalink Reply by Paul Miller Helbert on July 17, 2012 at 12:05pm

 I made the rounds of local cigar stores today. Found nothing and also found no solid cedar tops or bottoms. All plywood. Bummer.

Thanks for looking.

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Permalink Reply by Dan Sleep on July 17, 2012 at 7:12am

You can also make your own. Find an image on the web that you like. Print it out on a large, full page label from the stationary store. Give it a light coat  of urethane or other clear lacquer to set the ink from your printer.

Find a box that has little or no art on the front, and put your custom label over the top.

Give several light coats of varnish/lacquer/urethane and you are good to go.

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Permalink Reply by John Davidson on July 17, 2012 at 7:29am

I would try:

Use a Stanley knife to cut very small slits around the sides of the box simulating splanking. Paint the bottom of the box red running it up a 1/2", or so, on the sides. Add a small black line at the top of the red 'bottom paint' to mark the waterline.

Use cotton 3 strand, unless you can find hemp, to bind the headstock.

A chunk of 3 strand layed out in a circle, terminated with a square note, might look pretty good glued around the bridge.

 

Depending on the build, consider a bosun's pipe for the bridge.

Might be fun to cut some anchors to be used as fret markers too.

John

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Permalink Reply by Paul Miller Helbert on July 17, 2012 at 1:37pm

All good ideas.  I will incorporate some of them: the rope binding, the compass rose around the sound hole, maybe some printing, painting and I think I will set a little Snark Tuner into the headstock.

I'll show it off here before I ship it out.

Thanks guys!

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Permalink Reply by Ron "Oily" Sprague on July 17, 2012 at 5:33pm

Paul,

Riffing on Clock's pic, you could contact CigarBoxDeals.com (they have a link in the bar on the right of this page), and ask them to find you a Balboa Las Cabrillas box. They claim to be able to find specifics in their stock.

Yeah, cedar is getting increasingly hard to find, but don't denigrate the plywood for tone and playability. Another option, as Dan suggested, would be to build your own cedar box, and either copy artwork from the Net, or design your own. Hmmm. How are you as a skrimshander?

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Permalink Reply by Paul Miller Helbert on July 18, 2012 at 2:51am

Yup, My normal beater concert scale uke is plywood, built on a Padron 6000-25 box. Sounds okay.

Thanks for the tip about cigarboxdeals.com. I just sent them a query. I reckon I missed seeing that because I'm pretty much immune to side-bar ads on the web.

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Permalink Reply by Clock The Wolf on July 17, 2012 at 12:13pm

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Permalink Reply by Randy S. Bretz on July 18, 2012 at 12:07pm

I made this for a customer who was doing the same theme build as you. This is an solid ebony rod piezo anchor bridge !!

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Permalink Reply by jala on March 18, 2013 at 11:32am

have you the even to sell how much does the anchor

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