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Permalink Reply by Wade on June 5, 2018 at 2:28pm

My favorite cigar box is an empty one ;) I do like the larger rectangular ones best. Lately I’ve been building some acoustic ones from antique boxes 

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Permalink Reply by Groucho on June 6, 2018 at 2:26am

I like the Flor de Antillas (My Father Cigar) boxes too.  I made a guitar for my cousin with one.  It looked and sounded great.

I like Brick House boxes too since they look cool, are big and have a good acoustic resonance.  I also think a lot of Rocky Patel boxes look pretty nice.

I just picked up these four boxes for $4 over the weekend.  I think they'll all make nice looking guitars (and one kalimba)

I'm going to make my buddy a 3-stringer out of the Camacho box for being the Best Man in my wedding.  He's a Scorpio, so I think he'll like it on a couple of levels.

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Permalink Reply by T-Gripped on June 6, 2018 at 5:00am

My favorite is the one I'm building.

But I do enjoy the two you depict and discuss above. I also seem to gravitate to all-wood boxes, yet some mdf ones play just fine.

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Permalink Reply by Tom T on June 6, 2018 at 7:51am

Thanks for the replies and photos. I had forgotten about the Brick House boxes. They are both big and nice. I'll have to keep an eye out for a good one.

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