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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 Daniel Hulbert on July 11, 2014 at 3:52am

Congratulations to the winners!

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Permalink Reply by Al Nelson on July 11, 2014 at 6:29am

Way to go to all the winners and all the builders! This was a fun contest to participate in and stiff competition for sure!

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Permalink Reply by Brian Ramoly on July 11, 2014 at 7:49am

Congratulations! Skill and creativity

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Permalink Reply by mark68 on July 11, 2014 at 7:58am

Im going to pull my best "oscar nominee loser face" and wish the winners well ,,, lol, seriously, the entries were incredible, and im going to shamelessly steal some ideas!!!!, well done folks..I enjoyed that. Roll on next contest

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Permalink Reply by Harrison Withers on July 11, 2014 at 8:03am

awesome winners and congrats to all!

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Permalink Reply by Turkeychicken on July 11, 2014 at 8:07am

Who were the winners? I can't find where they were announced.

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Permalink Reply by Harrison Withers on July 11, 2014 at 8:11am

http://www.cigarboxnation.com/profiles/blogs/cigar-box-ukulele-cont...

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Permalink Reply by Turkeychicken on July 11, 2014 at 8:40am

Awesome, thanks!

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Permalink Reply by Craig Logan on July 11, 2014 at 1:17pm

I very much enjoyed being part of this adventure, I can not call it a contest.

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Permalink Reply by Thom Chadwick on July 12, 2014 at 12:40pm

The contest was an awesome example of creative builders!! Thanks Shane for the opportunity to contribute.

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Permalink Reply by H P Magee on July 16, 2014 at 1:35pm

Thought the ones that were actually hand made versus made by 'guitar building company' deserved a little more

recognition. Kudos to those who 'hand made' their ukes!

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Permalink Reply by mark68 on July 16, 2014 at 9:18pm

That's kind. All mine are hand tools. And each one I learn something new, whether new way of doing things and how not to do things.... Note to self. .don't don't don't use yacht varnish lol