Cigar Box Guitar Build notes

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By Mark Frauenfelder
Posted 2010/02/24 @ 9:16 am
Category Music

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!

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3 Responses to Cigar Box Guitar Build notes

Gyan on June 7th, 2010 at 5:29 am said:

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garth ethan on June 27th, 2011 at 3:47 pm said:

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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Andre Freitas on July 20th, 2011 at 10:43 pm said:

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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