Its been close to a year since I first picked up these boxes. Deemed them too small so glued them together. And there they sat.....AGING THE GLUE I GUESS.

I finally built a tiny box dulcimer/guitar, then a big box slide guitar. But these glued boxes just sat there.

Well I finally got to work on it so here it is.

Neck: two strips of maple glued together with an oak fret board. Headstock is angled.

Nails cut and ground to size and super glued in place.

Two boxes glued together with 2 holes cut thru the joining sides to enable two lenghts of screen door springs to be installed semi tight. Nice twangy sound !

Strings are thru neck using rivet ferrules.

Nut and fret just 2 1/2 bolts cut to size then filed flat on one side for proper string height.

24.5 scale lenght - dulcimer fret pattern. I have it strung for 4 strings, but flip the fourth over a few threads

and have it drone the third string. Figured about 40 hours into the build maybe a little more.

Time to kick back enjoy and maybe plan to add electric later.

Thanks out to everyone for the ideas, support, pictures, comments and store bought hardware from C.B. Gitty.