We are pleased to announce the

2013 Cigar Box Guitar Builders Challenge!

The contest begins immediately. The deadline for submissions is midnight, December 31, 2013.

A winner will be announced the first part of January, 2014.

This year the theme will be:

Steampunk

From Urban Dictionary: Steampunk is a subgenre of speculative fiction, usually set in an anachronistic Victorian or quasi-Victorian alternate history setting. It could be described by the slogan "What the past would look like if the future had happened sooner." It includes fiction with science fiction, fantasy or horror themes.

 

More on Wikipedia:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk

 

Contest Rules:

  • One submission per person.
  • Each submission shall be an instrument of the builder's own construction and overall design.
  • The instrument shall prominently and visibly feature a cigar box in the design.
  • Each builder will submit up to five pictures of their creation. No videos please till after the judging is complete.
  • Entries must be submitted no later than midnight December 31, 2013.
  • Builders shall post the pictures of their instruments in the separate "Contest Submission Thread."
  • Builders should include descriptions of their work, including any technical details such as features, materials used, or any other information they feel would assist the judges in reviewing the submission.

Once the submission period ends, all comments in the submission thread from other CBN members will be deleted to make it easier for the judges to review the entries. The judges will review the pictures and select a winner.

The decision of the judges is final.

We will notify everyone of who the judges will be once we get that list finalized. We try to have 3-5 judges on the panel.

Do NOT post your entries or pictures in this thread!

 

There will be a separate thread for submissions so we can keep all the entries in one place.

You can post your entries HERE!

Good luck and have fun!!

 

Here is a link to last year's contest in case you have not seen it yet.

2012 Builders Contest

 

PRIZE LIST

First Prize - $250 value

A pack of prize items from C. B. Gitty's Store worth at least $250

Second Prize - $125 value

A pack of prize items from C. B. Gitty's Store worth at least $125 in value

Third Prize - $75 value


A pack of prize items from C. B. Gitty's Store worth at least $75 in value

Fourth Prize - $50 value


A pack of prize items from C. B. Gitty's Store worth at least $50 in value

 

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Does it have to be a cigar box, or can it be a wine box? (My cigar boxes are too pretty to junk up, but I have a perfect wine box.)

Dan told me it had to be a cigar box and i may have to prove it .

Well, I can prove it's a wine box, but that doesn't help me much! Very good, I'll look through the collection.

Sorry to be picky about the cigar box thing. But, the name of this site IS Cigar Box Nation, and it is about cigar box guitars.

I'm sure you can find a box you can use that won't require you to screw up one of your nice ones.

Can I make one out of cigars...without the box?

Then your licks will be 'smokin' <rimshot>

Glue a buncha reeelly cheep Dutch Masters into a box shape...surprised it hasn't been done already...hmmm

Inlay a lid from a cardboard box onto a larger box.  You've just increased the volume and fortified the construction.  

Yep, it's not Wine Box Nation, is it? ;-)

"Sorry to be picky about the cigar box thing. But, the name of this site IS Cigar Box Nation, and it is about cigar box guitars...."

Yawn..

This is so old, so sad, so elitist...
It disadvantages some guys in some parts of the world, just because the elusive holy grail of third world tone is unavailable to them. If a cookie tin, wine box, ice cream bucket is rescued from the trash and strung up and it don't qualify then I think you're emphasizing entirely the wrong half of the name, what's more important the box or the guitar??

The box fetish side of this community is soo gay...
Sooo-gay Box Guitars??

It wouldn't be an internet contest without a few people bitching and calling names about it.

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