How to Build A Cigar Box Violin/fiddle (or at least one way to do it)

So for a while now I wanted to branch out a little for CBGs and build me a violin. Well the time finally came and it was hard for me to find videos, forums, or anything on the building process (Yes even on this site it was hard) So I decided that if I was going to do a build I better makes some videos and a blog post or something about it. So that is what I did. The videos are not as "polished" as I like but I kept have technical difficulties with my cameras and mics and stuff, but I think in the end there is still a lot of good information for anyone wanting to take on a fiddle build.

Here is video 1 "How to build a Cigar Box Violin"
https://youtu.be/MEUKO9sUf5I

Video 2 "Sound Check"
https://youtu.be/5Ho-XjHqCB4

My Blog post on my website that has good pictures and explanations of the process and also some plans in pfd that, you can print out ;)
http://www.hiltsbilt.com/2017/10/26/build-cigar-box-violin/

Well, I hope you guys like the information, thank you all for all the good stuff that is already on this site:)

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Permalink Reply by JL on October 27, 2017 at 12:12am

looks very nice

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Permalink Reply by Kirk on October 27, 2017 at 2:16am

Gorgeous fiddle, and I enjoyed the videos! Thanks for sharing!

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Permalink Reply by Justin Hilts on October 27, 2017 at 4:44pm

thanks, no problem

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Permalink Reply by Cigar Box Nation on October 27, 2017 at 8:00pm

This is getting featured in an upcoming Cigar Box Nation newsletter!

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Permalink Reply by Justin Hilts on October 27, 2017 at 8:07pm

Cool!

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Permalink Reply by Bobby Wallen on October 30, 2017 at 11:04pm

Great looking fiddle!

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Permalink Reply by Gary Stenzel on October 31, 2017 at 11:37am

That's inspirational! (For me.) Been wanting to build a fiddle for a while. Very nice!

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Permalink Reply by Gary Stenzel on October 31, 2017 at 12:20pm

I like your website! I really like the "tipping" effect when you mouseover the images.

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Permalink Reply by Justin Hilts on October 31, 2017 at 12:29pm

Thank you

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Permalink Reply by Jim Morris on October 31, 2017 at 12:35pm

Good job! Thanks for sharing.

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Permalink Reply by Justin Hilts on November 1, 2017 at 6:35am

Thank you, no porblem

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Permalink Reply by RTZGUITARS on October 31, 2017 at 10:04pm

good thing this is a how to cus i'm using the sound hole waist idea

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