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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 June 12, 2014 at 4:06am

Cute uke and great story.

I bet she loves that uke for the rest of her life.

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Permalink Reply by Titch the Clown on June 15, 2014 at 1:22am

Love it. Those fairy's are brilliant. In a pickier context I would tell you your saddle is in backwards but I love the look of it all so much I am going to let it pass. After all, as I tell myself all the time - it's just a ukulele. As long as it sounds OK and there are no sharp edges...

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Permalink Reply by Thom Chadwick on June 16, 2014 at 1:28pm

Thanks for the comments Titch. This is the first fretted instrument that I have created. (Second CBG). I had a problem with the intonation and I was wondering why. I've since changed the saddle to a piece of African Blackwood which has a closer action. I might put the bone saddle back in the right direction to see how it sounds. Cheers!

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Permalink Reply by Titch the Clown on June 14, 2014 at 7:41pm

Yes I know it doesn't have a cigar box, but might I say I am very proud of the brigantine on the headstock

A Captain Jack Sparrow Ukulele for the girls in Sparrow Folk.

http://www.sparrow-folk.net/

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Permalink Reply by the anonymous pick on June 14, 2014 at 9:35pm

nice ;-)

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Permalink Reply by Larry Epstein on June 15, 2014 at 10:23am

Here is baritone uke #2 that I built using a Mike Lowe aluminum resonator cone, Tone Monster passive pick up, Dan Duke maple neck, mahogany fret board, Worth clear fluorocarbon strings, sealed tuners, bone nut and bridge, and hardware from CB Gitty and others. I refinished the Bering Grande box, finished the neck and set the frets, carved the tailpiece, neck joint and the biscuit, and assembled everything using hand instruments and one small freehand drill. Scale length is 19-1/8 inch.