Hi Folks,

Wanted to share my first scratch build.  I build kalimbas, and wanted to try out a cigar box for the body, so I found CB's site and ended up with a cigar box guitar kit for the kids too.  It was so awesome decided I needed to try my hand at building from scratch.  So here's my first one:

Oak neck, Punch box, brass bridge and nut, two piezo pickups, and setup to play lap-style. I marked the neck up mountain dulcimer style; I always thought that looked cool.

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looks nice,well done for your 1st build.

still learning to build mine,easy with frettles but this old grey of mine trying to work out the fretted guitar.sooner or later we'll get there.

Nice one!

Thanks, folks.  It's been fun to play.  Using a DAD tuning.  Currently working on my version of the stick on box approach. Will post picks if it turns out.

Nice! My first build was a drawer screwed on to a piece a banister with eyebolts for tuners.

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