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Permalink Reply by Jim_N on August 31, 2016 at 4:56am

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Permalink Reply by JP Lace Master on September 2, 2016 at 9:38am

Is that Seasick Steve and his 3 string Transwonder, by any chance.

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Permalink Reply by JL on August 31, 2016 at 2:26am

If it falls outside the boundaries of professional/factory made traditional 6 string expected shape body with heritage pattern braced soundboard of pedigree tonewood following jigs and patterns handed down because "That's the way we do it no exceptions" pedagogy .....

then it belongs
order: maker
family: home made music
genus: CBG
Species: various (canjo, license plate, washtub, cigar box, wine box, toilet seat, et all)

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Permalink Reply by Jim_N on August 31, 2016 at 3:14am

Sorta' overstating the obvious, but...

“The cigar box guitar is a primitive chordophone that uses an empty cigar box as a resonator.” - Wikipedia

Top: Made from a cigar box, so it's a cigar box guitar.
Middle: Made to look like a cigar box, so it's a homemade guitar.
Bottom: Homemade, but has absolutely nothing to do with cigar boxes or any kind of box, so it's in a different category altogether.

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Permalink Reply by Ron "Oily" Sprague on August 31, 2016 at 4:20am

Short answer: yes.
Longer answer: if you're concerned, go get a cigar. Put it in your box for a few seconds. Viola! You have a cigar in a box, ergo, it's a cigar box. Then you build a guitar with that box. You have then built a cigar box guitar.

This is called "in-the-out-of-the-box" thinking. ;-)

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Permalink Reply by Steve Griggs on August 31, 2016 at 2:44pm

After you build the box, JP......put a cigar in it!!! Now it's a cigar box. Ta-da!!! Sorry, Oily, but I didn't see your (brilliant) answer before posting mine. I like the way you think, pard.

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Permalink Reply by JL on August 31, 2016 at 11:27pm

or a smaller cigar box and make it a cigar box box guitar

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Permalink Reply by Ron "Oily" Sprague on September 1, 2016 at 4:45pm

Gift it to your servant on Boxing Day...

Do it in your sox
With a fox
Eating lox
Watch for pox
When you walks

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Permalink Reply by Ron "Oily" Sprague on September 2, 2016 at 4:29am

What ain't good
Must be bad
Or a fad
In the hood

Which is good.

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Permalink Reply by Jim Morris on September 4, 2016 at 3:54am

Or put a pic of either Bob Seger or Pete Seeger in it for a Seeger Box Guitar.. I think any instrument that is homemade fits the spirit of what we're doing here and being too picky over semantics is a drag.

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Permalink Reply by Blues Frog on September 4, 2016 at 7:12am

A Seeger Box Guitar....

I don't care who you are, that's funny right there!

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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on September 1, 2016 at 8:20pm

Build a box and throw a cigar in it for a while, there it is a CBG.

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