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New cbg for the cigar club I get my boxes from.

Well I get most of my boxes for free from a local cigar club. I had agreed to build them a CBG to hang on their wall and to play around with and they will give me empty cigar boxes! Real nice people there!

So I started with a Arturo Fuente Cigar Box

I thought about using just a straight 1x2 for the neck and building a basic acoustic for them but the more I thought about it I thought I should jazz it up a bit and make it a nice neck.

I liked the ideas that a few of you gave me about "personalizing it for them:

so I put their logo on the top of the headstock and their name on the sides of the headstock:

I used my solder gun to burn the fretlines and used stainless steel thumb tacks countersunk for markers:

and for side markers I used small stainless steel nails:

and I'm almost finished with it now. All that is left is to drill 9 tiny holes (my drill broke last night), finish mount the tuners (I am useing WD tuners with chrome covers), string it, tune it, play it a lil bit, and finally deliver it! I will post finished pics of it asap!!

I could kick myself in the butt!! Yesturday I was messing around with the cbg and used scotch tape to tape a piezo rod to my brass bridge, plugged it into a Fender Frontman Amp (did not look at the controls....the volume was cranked) I got a lil buzz noise so I jiggled the jack (since it was just laying on top the box) and gave it a strum....I should have kept this one for myself and made it electric!!! This thing SCREAMED!!!! Unbelievably LOUD!!!! LOL,,,, Definately gonna get another one of these boxes and build an electric out of it!!!!

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Comment by Joe Bowen on February 6, 2013 at 6:54pm: Made my day!!!!! Today I took the finished CBG up to one of the music shops I deal with because the owner wanted to see it. By the time I walked out of there, one of their customers asked about it and placed an order and the owner of the shop wants 1 in his shop "to test the market"!

Comment by SlowHound on February 3, 2013 at 6:11pm: Nice! I did the same thing about a year ago with the same style box. I've netted over 200 boxes and sold 3 guitars because of that build. Absolutely worth it.

Comment by Joe Bowen on February 3, 2013 at 5:51pm: Thanks I will post finished photos tomorrow!!!

Comment by Ron "Oily" Sprague on February 3, 2013 at 6:18am: Nice build, Joe, and nice sourcing!

Comment by Clock The Wolf on February 2, 2013 at 10:23pm: Groove-E

Comment by Joe Bowen on February 2, 2013 at 9:57am: oops forgat to post 1 other pic:

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