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Bonita

Meet Bonita (Get it? Bone-ita.... lol)

So... several weeks ago I went to the cigar shop to drop off a guitar that the manager had commissioned me to build and while waiting for her to get there a gentleman named Alain, who is a regular in the smoking lounge, approached me and asked about the git I have on display there. As I'm talking to him about the virtues of CBGs he pulls a skull shaped cigar box out of his locker (I'd never even noticed that they had lockers there) and he asked "Can you make a guitar out of this?", to which I replied "Hell yes I can!"

The result is this rather odd 24" scale, 22 fret, DGB tuned 3-stringer.

"At the 2016 International Premium Cigar & Pipe Retailers Show a limited edition cigar by Foundry Tobacco Company was showcased. The limited edition blend was produced by Fernandez and consists of a Sumatra wrapper over Nicaraguan binder and fillers. The cigar itself is a 5 1/2 x 50 Robusto. For this cigar, Foundry collaborated with a master box maker to develop the skull shaped boxes. The boxes come in five colors (Black, Silver, White, Gold, and Bronze), but the blend and the sizes are the same. The boxes contain 28 cigars and only 50 boxes per color were made. These cigars sold out at the trade show."

I'm guessing you won't see many guitars like this. : )

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Comment by Korrigan on November 18, 2018 at 12:24pm: Thanks AGP!

There's could be as many as 249 more of these boxes waiting to become guitars... keep your eyes peeled. : )

Comment by AGP # on November 18, 2018 at 11:31am: "Sweet" :-), who would have thought there was such a thing as an actual "Skull Cigar Box", have had a Skull themed CBG build on my To Do List since I started this madness 5 or 6 yrs ago, but as yet, still hasn't happened! :-D

Comment by Korrigan on November 17, 2018 at 5:43pm: Thanks Bones!

Comment by Jeff 'Bones' Reilly on November 17, 2018 at 3:08pm: That’s killer K what a great build mate .

Comment by Korrigan on November 17, 2018 at 2:34pm: Thanks UJ!

Comment by Uncle John on November 17, 2018 at 1:26pm: Good story and a cool build.

Comment by Korrigan on November 17, 2018 at 1:04pm: Ha! Thanks Darryl!

Comment by Darryl Tuttle on November 17, 2018 at 12:56pm: You are an amazing individual...what a strange wonderful mind you have...dont ever change