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2017 "Kick The Can" Build-Off contest - Canjos, Tin Can Guitars

"Come on, brothers and sisters, KICK OUT THE CANS!"

For our final build-off contest of 2017, we're looking for your best canjos, cookie tin banjos and any other playable stringed instrument made from discarded metal containers. It can have one string wired to a tin can or it could be a full size harp made from an outdoor propane tank! The more creative, the better.

Here's the details:

Contest runs Nov. 16 - Dec. 20, 2017

Prizes: $100 C. B. Gitty Gift Certificate for 1st place, $50 Gitty gift certificate for second and $25 gift certificate for third.

Judges: Shane Speal, Ben "Gitty," Glenn Watt and Farley Andresen

How to Enter:

1. In the comments section below, post up to three (3) photos and one (1) video of your entry.

2. Add a one (1) paragraph description with your photo entry.

3. Shake, stir, repeat. (Yes, you can submit more than one entry!)

4. Submissions that won previous Cigar Box Nation contests are ineligible.

Need inspiration? Here's Wesseh to show you how it's done...

Note: This is the official contest entry page. Do not use this page to post comments about other submissions.

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Permalink Reply by Ben Houghton on December 12, 2017 at 5:23am

My 2nd guitar:

Vinnies Axe. 3 string open D, (or whatever else takes your fancy, I just like the deep tones).

Permalink Reply by Ben Houghton on December 12, 2017 at 5:25am

My 3rd guitar: Campbells shortbread. Tuned like a mandolin with just four strings, it's great for folk music.

Permalink Reply by A.D.EKER on November 17, 2017 at 9:48am

Got me a Antiek Cigar Tin will that do !

Ill try and make a Arch Top Cigar Tin Build out of it ?

Permalink Reply by Lane Martin on November 17, 2017 at 9:53am

Sweet tin!

Permalink Reply by Lane Martin on November 17, 2017 at 9:56am

This is a tenor banjolele. Built it for a band member that was moving out of town, so we had everyone sign it. The neck is oak, taken from an old vanity, strings are fishing line.

Permalink Reply by Rob (Uker) Porras on November 20, 2017 at 9:06am

Nice!!!

I love the signatures and the tail piece.

Permalink Reply by Randy House on November 17, 2017 at 1:17pm

Oil can guitar built with a Fender Squire neck and a humbucker pickup

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Permalink Reply by Timothy Hunter on November 17, 2017 at 7:11pm

Beets by Tim

tuned to G , dulcimer fretted with split pin frets. last time i do this as i am tired of the frets sticking to my fingers and not going down straight..lol its a canjo and plays in tune so end result , happy.

Permalink Reply by A.D.EKER on November 18, 2017 at 1:12pm

Tree of my earlyér Tin Builds Moviecan, Antiek Indian cigar tin , and the AGIO Golden Harvest cigar tin Build !

Permalink Reply by Korrigan on November 19, 2017 at 12:37pm

My first attempt to build an instrument from when I first got interested in CBGs... way back in September 2017. lol Though currently strung as a GDG 3-string with unison courses, my thought was to make something I could use as a diddly bow to a 6-string and everything in between. It has a high-tech compensated string suspension system (square nuts and threaded rods), my wife's "missing" cheese grater as a tailpiece and a soundhole cover donated by the kind folks at Quality Inn and Suites, Rochester, Michigan (just kidding, I'd never steal anything from a hotel... I found it in my kids' bathroom). Electronics are a humbucker with push/pull coil split and two parallel piezo disks. The two pickup types are independently controllable due to the use of Schottky diodes.