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Welcome to Uketoberfest 2016! It's a celebration of all things cigar box ukulele... from building secrets to awesome photos and videos.

We're looking to hear from you. From October 3-16, we are asking for photos, videos and building tips of your best cigar box ukuleles. Post them below!

Four random winners will receive $75 gift certificates to CBGitty.com. We will draw the names on October 17 and announce them in the Cigar Box Nation weekly email.

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Permalink Reply by Daniel Hulbert on October 3, 2016 at 9:15am

Free plans for my solid body electric ukulele:

https://circuitsandstrings.wordpress.com/2014/02/09/electric-ukulel...

Permalink Reply by Rob (Uker) Porras on October 13, 2016 at 9:09am

Very Clean looking.

Great Job.

Permalink Reply by Catalyst on October 3, 2016 at 9:57am

Tambourine headstock

Permalink Reply by Rusty Summer on October 4, 2016 at 4:31am

Did you use friction pegs? I would like to see the back of the headstock. I really like this.

Permalink Reply by Catalyst on October 4, 2016 at 5:08am

Thanks, no they are regular uke tuning pegs. I'll try n get a pic of the back after work today

Permalink Reply by J.Rob on October 3, 2016 at 10:06am

Pineapple uke!

Permalink Reply by David Comtois on October 10, 2016 at 3:56am

Lost your images!

Permalink Reply by Fomhorach on October 3, 2016 at 11:59am

Golden brown texture like sun..

Here's a little something for you guys to try out. C3 G3 C4 G4. Top 4 strings from a normal set. This is my usual baritone ukulele tuning. The 3 bass strings are the same configuration of a standard CBG tuning, the top 3 strings are the same configuration as my standard tuning of a CBG. It's all a bit upside down and a lot of fun to play like this.

For all you guys thinking about building a shorter scale 4 string thing.. Consider that you can tune it to a ukulele, mandolin etc etc..

Permalink Reply by Fomhorach on October 4, 2016 at 10:51am

wrong picture, here's the neck. Oh and those frets after the 12th are 'just intonation' just to spice things up a bit for solo players :)

The first picture is after I replaced the bridge. This picture shows the bridge I used to test it out. I had to wait on a replacement. Top picture shows the fixed bridge. I had to use this old one to test out the electronics.

Permalink Reply by Neil Johnson on October 3, 2016 at 12:25pm