"Come on, brothers and sisters, KICK OUT THE CANS!"
For our final build-off contest of 2017, we're looking for your best canjos, cookie tin banjos and any other playable stringed instrument made from discarded metal containers. It can have one string wired to a tin can or it could be a full size harp made from an outdoor propane tank! The more creative, the better.
Here's the details:
Contest runs Nov. 16 - Dec. 20, 2017
Prizes: $100 C. B. Gitty Gift Certificate for 1st place, $50 Gitty gift certificate for second and $25 gift certificate for third.
Judges: Shane Speal, Ben "Gitty," Glenn Watt and Farley Andresen
How to Enter:
1. In the comments section below, post up to three (3) photos and one (1) video of your entry.
2. Add a one (1) paragraph description with your photo entry.
3. Shake, stir, repeat. (Yes, you can submit more than one entry!)
4. Submissions that won previous Cigar Box Nation contests are ineligible.
Need inspiration? Here's Wesseh to show you how it's done...
Note: This is the official contest entry page. Do not use this page to post comments about other submissions.
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Sweet tin!
Nice!!!
I love the signatures and the tail piece.
My first attempt to build an instrument from when I first got interested in CBGs... way back in September 2017. lol Though currently strung as a GDG 3-string with unison courses, my thought was to make something I could use as a diddly bow to a 6-string and everything in between. It has a high-tech compensated string suspension system (square nuts and threaded rods), my wife's "missing" cheese grater as a tailpiece and a soundhole cover donated by the kind folks at Quality Inn and Suites, Rochester, Michigan (just kidding, I'd never steal anything from a hotel... I found it in my kids' bathroom). Electronics are a humbucker with push/pull coil split and two parallel piezo disks. The two pickup types are independently controllable due to the use of Schottky diodes.
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