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Well! What else are ya gonna do with a Gurkha cigar box? Store cigars? Nope. Not me
A friend of mine had a bunch of cigar boxes she was selling for like $5 each and i really wasnt to interested until I saw this one:
Now theres no way I was gonna let this one go so I traded her an arrowhead I was making for it on the spot. I wasnt even done with the arrowhead. So here goes nothing. My first guitar. Lets see how this turns out. Its going to be a three string slide or maybe even fretted guitar. I have a piece of oak for the neck and a piece of poplar for the fretboard. They were dirt cheap and other than that all i got into it is an arrowhead.
Its a very Khul box with brass hinges and well made. Its not as wide as most cigar boxes so I might even have to electrify it if the acoustics arent good enough. We will see when done. Heres the plan:
Im going to slip the piece of neck through and affix it to the back of the box and carve out a bit on top to allow the lid to vibrate and make better amplification. When done you should be able to open and close the lid when unstrung to update and change out parts.
I think it will look pretty cool once done.
You see I had to add a piece underneath the neck at the bottom since ill be carving out parts of the neck there. It also makes a nice heel outside the box. After some careful measurements a scarf joint is made to fabricate the headstock. Since it only has three strings it dont need to be very big.
That should work. I also had to clamp another piece onto the sides to make the headstock wider but I forgot to get a pic of that. Anyway it came out as planned.
Now this part gave me a bit of stress! Finally I figured out a way to get the neck straight via belt sander. I dont have a planer but its on the list now. The two straight pieces of steel kept me from intruding into the wood I want to keep.
Thats pretty much were im at now. I have the fretboard glued on now but aint got no pics uploaded yet so stay tuned.
A friend of mine had a bunch of cigar boxes she was selling for like $5 each and i really wasnt to interested until I saw this one:
Now theres no way I was gonna let this one go so I traded her an arrowhead I was making for it on the spot. I wasnt even done with the arrowhead. So here goes nothing. My first guitar. Lets see how this turns out. Its going to be a three string slide or maybe even fretted guitar. I have a piece of oak for the neck and a piece of poplar for the fretboard. They were dirt cheap and other than that all i got into it is an arrowhead.
Its a very Khul box with brass hinges and well made. Its not as wide as most cigar boxes so I might even have to electrify it if the acoustics arent good enough. We will see when done. Heres the plan:
Im going to slip the piece of neck through and affix it to the back of the box and carve out a bit on top to allow the lid to vibrate and make better amplification. When done you should be able to open and close the lid when unstrung to update and change out parts.
I think it will look pretty cool once done.
You see I had to add a piece underneath the neck at the bottom since ill be carving out parts of the neck there. It also makes a nice heel outside the box. After some careful measurements a scarf joint is made to fabricate the headstock. Since it only has three strings it dont need to be very big.
That should work. I also had to clamp another piece onto the sides to make the headstock wider but I forgot to get a pic of that. Anyway it came out as planned.
Now this part gave me a bit of stress! Finally I figured out a way to get the neck straight via belt sander. I dont have a planer but its on the list now. The two straight pieces of steel kept me from intruding into the wood I want to keep.
Thats pretty much were im at now. I have the fretboard glued on now but aint got no pics uploaded yet so stay tuned.