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I can't offer an opinion without seeing it in person - I would suggest forwarding it to me (I'll send you my address). That way I can make a more informed analysis. Also, I would do this quickly, before you get a whole bunch of silly suggestions that say things other than sending to me!!! :-)
It's actually 7" by 4 1/2" by 1" - smaller still!
Don't listen to that first feller...he's just jawin' at ya...you should send that box to me.
Ron's right, electric is the way to go on this one.
you should send that to me !
I must admit that's not quite the advice I was expecting! I have since ordered another cigar box for my next (four string) build.
I still think there's something else this might be better suited to - a uke or a fiddle, perhaps? I just can't imagine, if I did manage to build a guitar from it, that it would be very nice to play with such a small body.
I'm getting nervous - you haven't asked for my address!!!???!!!!! Don't tell me you are going to entertain some of these other ideas???? :-)
In all seriousness - I think you could make it into a fine git - after all - size doesn't matter!!!
With a pickup, piezo or otherwise, you might have both fairly quiet practice instrument and an overdriven monster in one! Pretty box. Get a mack truck hood ornament of course!
I've made a Dulcimer or two out of boxes that small, Ukuleles as well. If it's a quality box you might be slightly louder than you think-if not, a Pickup and an Amp will make it as loud as you can stand.
BTW-if you can find some metal plate with a nice tone, say a cookie tin lid smaller than the width (about 5 inches right?) you might make a nice circular cut and drop yonder lid in for a Mini-resonator. The loudest Acoustic i've got right now isn't much larger than yours-a 8.5"x 5" x 1.25" Padron-but after slipping a 6" x 4.5" x1" Snickers candy tin through the bottom the little critter barks to shame some of my bigger boxes! Admittedly, reinforcing the neck to take Resonator strings may have helped a bit too...
Just for the record, the smallest box I have used so far has been a 6" x 4.5" by 0.75" for a child's acoustic guitar, with thin Dulcimer strings-and it was still loud enough to make his Dad regret the commission!
Do you want to really blow someone's mind though? Find a bigger box for the guitar, remove the lid from your smaller box, cut a hole in the back of your bigger box for the smaller to fit through and make a 'hunchback', with the extra box in the back adding the space you need for more volume. Failing that, find another small box with matching height, rip the lids off of both, lay side by side (or end to end), glue them together at the sides, then cut a few channels at the join so sound can pass from box to box...rip a new lid from some craft Birch, Mahogany door skin or Cedar plywood and build a BIG guitar out of it...
Mind you, an Amp, Stompbox, felt-lined Jewelry Box or just a 'spare tuners and screws' bin works too...
Build it. I've built several out of small boxes and been pleasantly surprised at how they sounded. It's too pretty a box not to give it a try.
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