Terry Brennan

Male

Madison, WI

United States

Profile Information:

How did you learn about Cigar Box Nation?
internet
How many instruments have you built so far?
1/2
What do you find most interesting about cigar box guitars? (If you do not enter something meaningful here (at least one sentence long), your membership may be rejected as a spam/bot fake account).
I like the concept of playing something I built out of castoff items

Comment Wall:

  • Al Williams

    Hi Terry, Al here from Australia. Being an old guy and also new to this game/hobby, I found the following URL very helpful for calculating the frets on 2 x 3 string guitars, first one a smoked salmon box, present one made from hub caps. https://www.stewmac.com/FretCalculator

  • Darryl Tuttle

    i'm builiding my first cigar box guitar as well...learning by trial and error, will be posting pics of it when  i am done

  • Al Williams

    Hi Terry, it's good to have contact with like minded people. I couldn't find very much information regarding building hub cap guitars, so have worked out a plan that I hope works. I didn't want any extraneous nuts and bolts, trying to keep it fairly simple. So far have built the neck, fret board, internal frame, and installed a beer cap piezo pickup which should lie just under the bridge. The assembly will begin tomorrow, trying to keep everything straight will be an act, so the strings end up parallel with the top hub cap, fingers crossed. Will take pictures and post them here somewhere.