CBGitty.com & Cigar Box Nation are looking for the WILDEST, LOUDEST & MOST DIABOLICAL electric cigar box guitar ever built. The more pickups, the more internal effects, the better! We’re looking for insane hot rods that could blow a Marshall stack. It’s time to push the cigar box guitar into the absurd! We will award C. B. Gitty gift certificates to the top five submissions as determined by our judges. The deadline for submissions is Sunday, November 3, 2024.
Your instruments will be judged on creativity, originality and overall coolness. Basically, we're be looking for the one CBG that gets makes people speechless!
We’re giving away $500 in Prizes:
◦ First place: $250 gift certificate to CBGitty.com & bragging rights
◦ Second place: $100 gift certificate to CBGitty.com
◦ Three runners-up: Each of the three runner's up will receive $50 gift certificates to CBGitty.com
RULES: Instrument must have the following criteria:
1. You must be the builder of the instrument and it must be have at least 1 cigar box in the body of the instrument.
2. It must be playable and contain at least one electric pickup.
3. You can submit both photos and videos of your entry.
4. Any instrument that has won a C. B. Gitty or CigarBoxNation.com contest in the past is ineligible.
5. Your submission must be entered before 11:59pm on November 3, 2024
HOW TO ENTER: Post photos and videos below (we suggest up to three photos and/or one video) of your instrument along with a 1 paragraph description to this group. You must post to this group or we will not see your submission elsewhere on Cigar Box Nation. The winning instruments will be chosen by our panel of judges and will be announced on the home page of CBGitty.com on November 12, 2024.
Any questions, email Shane Speal at sspeal@cbgitty.com
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I'm new to submitting to a contest. My question is do I just reply with my information to this string of comments?
Yes. Just reply here.
-shane
Here are some pics and a video of a guitar I made from a Corn Flakes Box tin I found on eBay. Has neck through design for adding stability to the otherwise somehwat flimsy tin box. Heastock veneer printed on peel off vinyl inkjet printer paper. Sounds pretty good acoustically (louder than the typical CBG due to box volume 12"x8"x3") and now realize I should have included that in the video.
As they used to say - the best to you each morning!
I love the Ed "Big Daddy" Roth style logo!
the Gotham was inspired by my NYC nephew, Ben's connection to the music industry and for his unhealthy obsession with all-things-Batman when he was 8 years old. It has a full 6string neck, mexi-strat pickups and a piezo under the bridge. Mags and piezo have separate outputs and the piezo sports an onboard preamp. The three mags have fully independent switching similar to Brian May's "Big Red" - each pickup can be off, on, or on with reverse phase. There is a "grit" switch that adds a subtle dirty diode clipping and a tone/volume bypass switch. Cohiba box is rock solid. You could pry a car out of a snowbank with it. My next guitar (still in process) will make this look like a shoebox with a rubber band https://cigarboxnation.com/photo/gotham?context=contributor&mem...
https://cigarboxnation.com/videos1/gotham-sound-check
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