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Submission Thread for 2011 Cigar Box Guitar Builders Challenge

Please post pictures of your contest submissions here. Be sure to include any pertinent information about your instrument that you think others, including the judges, would enjoy knowing.

Good luck and good building!!!

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Permalink Reply by Mr.C on December 28, 2011 at 1:25pm

Think i submitted on the wrong thread. Here we go again. The bob marley guitar.

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Permalink Reply by John Hopper on December 28, 2011 at 3:14pm

Well here goes!

My entry is a Concert Scale CB Ukulele

AKA "Banjuke"

Specs: Gispert Churchill Box

Neck-from a redwood 4x4 stained with shoe dye and coated with satin poly

Cherry fretboard

Recycled guitar machine tuners

Aquila strings with Low G

Banjo pot made from scrap red oak flooring

Goat skin from Stew-Mac

Nut and saddle from scrap Corian

Total cost to build, under $20.00.

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Permalink Reply by John Hopper on December 28, 2011 at 3:15pm

Hi can more than one entry be submitted? jh

Permalink Reply by Ron "Oily" Sprague on December 28, 2011 at 3:49pm

John,

Rules state thusly:

*** 11/20/11: Please limit your entries to one submission per person. ***

Sorry, man.

Permalink Reply by John Bernyk on December 28, 2011 at 5:16pm

This is actually a rebuild cigar box guitar that I made for a local artist here at the Jersey Shore, Mr. Ronnie Brandt. This was my first attempt at building a CBG and had stopped working on it. Ronnie recently came to me with an idea to build a Jack Daniels Cigar Box Guitar. I told him about the one I had started and he asked if I could build it to withstand gigging and incorporate a JD deed in the theme of the guitar. I had found the cigar box on EBay and it truly is one-of a-kind. It actually had cigars in it and the Jack Daniels logo on the top. Apparently it was a limited edition, as I have not seen another like it ever since. I added the thru-neck made from mahogany with a oak fingerboard on top. The brass sound holes and corner braces really look great on this box. It has a peizo pickup mounted on the underside of the neck and a volume control on top. Its sounds very good plugged into a small PA system.. Ronnie supplied me with a copy of his Jack Daniels deed that I reliced/aged and attached to the back. This really personalizes the guitar and also looks really cool.

Permalink Reply by Trevor Bohay on December 28, 2011 at 5:34pm

Well well, well, there are some real beauties here, but I'll throw my hat in. This is my first build and was completed just last night. Most of the parts are from friends of this site. The hockey stick bracing the body is courtesy of my 6-yr old. I love that Crocker bridge.

It has tortoise shell position markers, brass ferrules, Kluson green key tuners and a pine neck. Best of all, as you all have found with your own builds, it's fun to play, and even better when you have built her yourself.

Take care!

Trev

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Permalink Reply by Trevor Bohay on December 28, 2011 at 5:57pm

Permalink Reply by bunty may on December 29, 2011 at 6:10am

This is my submission! I am completely new to this shebang and i built it as a gift for my partner. I was very pleased when i hooked it up to my CB Gitty amp and it works! Sounds pretty sexy :D Roll on build no.2!

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Permalink Reply by Henry Strat-o-varius Lowman on December 29, 2011 at 6:13am

For this contest, I am submitting my "sympatico" guitar, which is a 3 stringer with 3 additional sympathetic strings. This instrument was inspired by the Hardanger fiddle as well as the work of luthier Fred Carlson. It features a dual piezo pick up in parallel soldered to a 1 mega ohm volume pot. The volume knob was recycled from a sparkling wine cork. The sympathetics, as you can see, run underneath the fingerboard and through the bridge, underneath the melody strings. Getting them to buzz has been the hardest thing, and, like all my other builds, I find myself constantly tweaking the instrument to achieve its maximum potential. This instrument is LOUD!