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"So far, so good. Very good. "

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i have built 6 and this one is my first real cigar box guitar sitting on the fender of my 39 Plymouth coupe another work in progress

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my latest build the bridge and sound holes i 3d printed , i soldered the piezo to a larger tin disk which made it much louder and sensitive to touch

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"Kool, the loose & jangly the spring the better, tension kills the vibration effect."

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What do you find most interesting about cigar box guitars? (If you do not enter something meaningful here (at least one sentence long), your membership may be rejected as a spam/bot fake account).: they are great to play and a blast to build , i love building them and every one so far is different .

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