Cigar Box Guitar Build notes

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Dan Morril made a cigar box guitar by following the instructions in MAKE Volume 21. It looks great! I like the way he put one of the tuners on the top of the headstock instead of the side. I might give that a try on one of my future builds.

Dan also posted detailed and humorous build notes, which are well worth reading if you plan to build a cigar box guitar.

I’m extremely satisfied with how it came out. That cigar box was all I could have hoped for, and it sounds pretty freakin’ awesome. I expected kind of a course, ragged, thin sound, at least compared to a real guitar. I strummed this sucker and I was completely shocked — it actually sounds like a guitar!! A real honest to gods guitar!

Call me the GIT-arr man

Related:

Cigar Box Guitar on MAKE: Projects

6 thoughts on “Cigar Box Guitar Build notes

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  2. garth ethan says:

    Also, Acoustic guitars fabricated from cigar boxes. This is attractive design provide with cigar box guitar. I like all model of acoustic guitars.

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  3. Andre Freitas says:

    I don’t understand the dimensions of the neck (dimensions are 3/4″×1 1/2″). Can someone explain or translate this dimensions to metric dimensions please??

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Mark Frauenfelder is the founding Editor-in-Chief of Make: magazine, and the founder of the popular Boing Boing blog.

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