Mike Kinzie

Male

Leland, NC

United States

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How did you learn about Cigar Box Nation?
YouTube
How many instruments have you built so far?
Starting my first
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 lke the concept of making something from salvaged material

Comment Wall:

  • Darryl Tuttle

    If I can be of any help with build...feel free to ask...not an expert by any means

  • Dave Lynas

    I haven’t had much bowing trouble yet with very many guits built. I make sure to use quarter sawn blanks but have used diagonal grain on a few builds. I’ve repaired a lot of Steele reinforced necks with a rusty metal spine in a slot under their fingerboards. They are strait. I think it can work pretty good. I’ve had a couple of necks twist. They still play ok though. I don’t think using a one by two is a good idea. I’ve seen many of those bow. I have a Shane Speal and a Weekly house guitar that bowed using a 1 x 2 neck. I start with a 1 1/2 inch blank and earlier I used 2x2 blanks. I now use poplar stock. It’s working well.

  • Dave Lynas

    I suggest laminating you neck by gluing 2 1x3 sticks of oak together to get a 2x3 blank to start with. Have no knots in the wood. This will stand the test of time.