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BUILD OFF!!! 2014 Cigar Box Ukulele Contest submission thread

Cigar Box Ukulele Contest!

Cigar Box Nation is looking for the most artistic, wildest, most radical or most visionary cigar box ukulele. Do you think your creations are the best? Show them to us. The rules are simple:

1. The instrument must be made from a real cigar box.

2. It must fit within the classification of a ukulele (Uke soprano, concert, tenor or baritone scale + 4 nylon strings).

3. Instruments made from cigar box ukulele kits or from dismantled old ukes are acceptable as well as instruments fully made in your own workshop.

4. Instrument must be built by you.

Two prizes will be awarded from C. B. Gitty Crafter Supply.

Grand prize: $50 C. B. Gitty prize pack + $50 C. B. Gitty gift certificate

Runner up: $25 C. B. Gitty prize pack + $25 C. B. Gitty gift certificate

How to submit your entry:

Build the greatest cigar box ukulele you can
Take THREE pictures of your entry. Three pictures only (no photoshops of several angles in one pic).
Post your pictures in this submission thread along with any fun details about your instrument.

Contest runs from May 9, 2014 - June 30, 2014. Enter as many instruments as you wish.

In any case of changes to these rules will be posted on the home page of Cigar Box Nation and also in this group.

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Permalink Reply by Rob (Uker) Porras on May 30, 2014 at 1:08am

Very nice looking build. I like the scrolling you did at the end of the finger board.

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Permalink Reply by Frederic Thorner on May 30, 2014 at 1:45am

Details: Handmade maple neck. Rosewood laminated peg-head with bird's-eye maple inlay. Birds-eye maple fretboard.

Rosewood and maple laminated heel. Handmade rosewood bridge. Hand cut bone saddle and nut. Custom made box.

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Permalink Reply by Delvero on May 31, 2014 at 9:15am

My submission is R.Crumb's Devil Girl. She has two Soprano necks (legs) and is hand painted and made with poplar wood from an old dresser frame, as well as a cigar box.

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Permalink Reply by Rob (Uker) Porras on June 2, 2014 at 1:36am

OMG!!!

That looks feakin incredible.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Pollack on May 31, 2014 at 12:58pm

And my final entry, a mezzosoprano ukulele made with a Kinky Freidman CIgar box. Known far and wide as the Texas Jew-kulele. Rosewood fretboard/bridge, bone nut and saddle. Piezo pickup. Real Chutzpah.

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Permalink Reply by Rob (Uker) Porras on June 2, 2014 at 1:32am

That is an awesome box.

Where did you find it?

I love all your builds. I can tell from your pics that they are well designed and must play and sound good.

They look great too.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Pollack on June 2, 2014 at 5:19am

Got them off of ebay some time back. Scarce as hen's teeth.

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Permalink Reply by Eric Darrow on May 31, 2014 at 1:00pm

Soprano ukulele. Punch cigar box with bottom of box removed and replaced with Alaska yellow cedar to become the top of the instrument. I really like the oval sound holes found on Gypsy guitars and thought this would be a great opportunity to try. Mahogany neck, padauk fret board Martin style, ebony nut and bridge with a piezo rod pickup.