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The 2010 Double Neck Contest

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CONTEST CLOSED

Build a Double Neck Cigar Box Guitar Submit up to 3 pictures per entry by May 31, 2010.

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RULES

Instrument must have the following criteria:
1. It must be have at least 1 cigar box in the body of the instrument.
2. It must be playable and contain at least 2 playable necks.

HOW TO ENTER: Build a double neck cigar box guitar according to the rules below and submit a picture prior to May 31, 2010. Please include your name a short description of your instrument along with a maximum of three pictures.

HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR ENTRY: Simply upload your pictures and descriptions in this group. We will accept submissions from April 16 to May 31, 2010. Any questions, email Shane Speal at shanespeal@yahoo.com

DETAILS: We will also accept double neck cigar box guitars (any string combination), ukes, banjos, dulcimers, basses, diddley bows, harp guitars and similar stringed instruments. We will also accept any combination of these instruments. It can be either electric or acoustic. Get creative!

The winning instrument will be chosen by the staff at The Fretboard Journal magazine (!!!) and will be announced on the home page of CigarBoxNation.com on June 10, 2010. Fretboard Journal will be judging on creativity, originality and overall coolness. Basically, they'll be looking for the one CBG that gets discussed the most at the water cooler! The winner will receive a fantastically detailed Papa's Boxes 6-string "Amore" cigar box guitar, serial #0001.

In any case of changes to these rules will be posted on the home page of Cigar Box Nation and also in this group.

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Comment by bairfoot cajun on April 30, 2010 at 12:07pm: got one in da works, planning a second one. the first is kinda basic but the second one will be a first of its kind, if i can pull it off in time.even if i don't finish it in time fer da contest i will still finish it and post pics here at the nation yep.got a 3rd one in my brain that is as far fetched as my coffin style d-bow but i know it wont happen fer a while yet.i read a sign one day that said-:- aspire to inspire before you expire-:- pics of the first doubleneck i,m a werkin on should be up sometime this weekend hopefully. thanks fer da challenge,i have wanted to do a doubleneck build for some time now.

Comment by Roosterman on April 27, 2010 at 8:42am: Ok, entry #2. Top neck is oak with scarfed headstock, 2 string fretless, tuned D / G. Bottom neck is a fretless dowel necked diddly bow, hose clip nut and a .52 guage E string, dropped to a D. Fully electified by way of a piezo wired straight to jack. Oh... and its half size! Scale length is 16" :o)

Comment by Christopher Call on April 26, 2010 at 1:37pm: That's stand up of you Blind Doughboy!!!!!!!!

Comment by Richard Sanabia on April 26, 2010 at 6:50am: Cool. Just wanted to make sure all the bases were covered. Maybe later we can have a contest with boxes that are/were NOT cigar boxes. And maybe acoustic only instruments, like the old days. I have some cool ammo boxes I'd like to use. I have made a double neck, but it was a box that is home made,as I couldn't find a CB that was big enough for good acoustic tone. Rich in Tennessee...

Comment by Richard Sanabia on April 26, 2010 at 5:05am: I hope that all boxes can be included so as to add creative resources. Medicine boxes, orange crates, ammo boxes, etc., all could be fair game.

Comment by Christopher Call on April 26, 2010 at 5:03am: Roosterman, that is AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Comment by Richard Sanabia on April 26, 2010 at 4:59am: The rules say cigar box. Does that include home made boxes with cigar labels, or boxes that held cigars, or any box that looks like a cigar box? ?

Comment by Roosterman on April 26, 2010 at 4:36am: Thanks chaps - though I reckon there will be some stiff comp here if doughboys is anything to go by!

Comment by darren brown on April 24, 2010 at 7:54am: ever nice man ,very very cool A++

Comment by Roosterman on April 24, 2010 at 7:48am: Heres my effort. Finished September 2009, built by me, Roosterman, in me shed :o) 1 string diddly bow and 4 string fretless guitar. The top neck is a simple dowel, though it is blocked up inside for strength where routered out for the pickup. Single bass tuner and hose clip nut are up the business end, and it uses an 'A' bass string for some proper 'thump'. The guitar neck is oak, and has a scrafed headstock, a nail for a nut, and is heeled, again for extra strength. Both scales are identical for easy playing, and again the frets are marked along the top edge. Tuned to open E. Both necks are finished in an antique pine wax, and buffed to a shiny shine :o) The pickups are a matched pair of scatterwound tone monsters from Juju, which are just about the warmest pups I have ever heard, regardless of how much you have to spend! The single pole measures a healthy 3k, the 4 pole 5.5k. The 3 way switch selects, one or the other neck, or both if you posess the required talent... Chrome control pots are located on the top edge, volume and tone (with Sprague orange drop cap). I guess the main features though have to be the bridge and the neck angles. The bridge is actually a modified tremelo bar off a strat, which gives the perfect angle for the diverging necks. It is earthed through one of the supports, which I salvaged off an old bed and machined down to suit. The neck angle was designed to give a little more hand space, but also to allow quicker changes from one neck to the other. And to look cool :o) As a project, it was a steep learning curve, with a lot to fit in a little box, but Im really pleased with the way it turned out.... might even have time to try and do another before the deadline :o)