It all started when I listened to Steve Arvey music, I had to try to make one cigar box guitar.

I was really eager to start, didn't found easily a cigar box so I went for a wine box. The idea was to make everything from spare parts and see how it would go.

In Belgium (Europe), it's hard to find wood other than pine, so I went with a simple neck from leftover.

After hours of watching tutorials I decided to stop there and just go with it, and learn by trial and errors, and this was the perfect decision for me :-)

I scavenged screws and strings, but I bought the tuning pegs, I preferred using real ones here (will try with other ways another time).

Playing here with the slide was a ton of fun already :-)

After a while I really wanted to play more complex play styles and decided to try my hands at fretting.

That's where the things got complicated: I discovered that you can't just add frets then go: once you add frets, your guitar should sounds "right" with the proper intonation, and the action should not be too high otherwise it's hard to play.

I had then to adjust the nut size, the bridge size, play with the back angle, ...

As it's still a prototype to play with, I added a plywood fretboard from scraps

I take me a lot of time, research and adjustment here to get something nearly correct (two strings are ok, the last one intonation is half a tone sharper, I can live with that and adapt my play !)

I found this nice website from Haze guitars which explains a lot of thing to setup guitar, and the book is really nice (this is not an affiliate link, just a nice reference).