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Permalink Reply by Rick on May 10, 2010 at 3:23pm

Cigar Boxes afre being used for just about any craft, guitar, clock, bird house (thats a new one to me), purse, valet,decor, whatever.. i like it all not one better thatn the next but sure enjoyment of the LEAF!... thank you and please sit back and relax with your favorite cigar if you dont have a cigar i will send you one..thank guys

Mortimer Snerd said:

$45 - $6 clock works - 3 seconds of a man hour drilling a hole for the clock stem - $2 box = $38 profit. Not so dumb after all.
Maybe we can have a "kraft a cigar box" contest to see all the unholy things that can be done to a cigar box.

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Permalink Reply by Shawn on May 10, 2010 at 4:05pm

If it's a box it should rock! Not tick tock

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Permalink Reply by Rick on May 11, 2010 at 1:12am

If its a clock and it doesnt rock well buy up all the cigar boxes in the world and make guitars. then you wont have an issue but really enjoy the boxes while you can as the tobacco industry is taking some hits. Whatever the boxes become enjoy and kick back with your cigar box guitar and make it rock dude, ok off to smoke..

Shawn said:

If it's a box it should rock! Not tick tock

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Permalink Reply by Alan Roberts on May 11, 2010 at 6:12am

Dave V said:

The next time you have a slab of Koa, keep me in mind. I'd love to have a Koa toothpick.

I don't know about koa toothpicks, but I made up a bunch of koa chopsticks...
There was one guy last summer who came in and started turning out the most AMAZING koa and ebony boxes that any of have ever seen. Had lived in Hawai'i 20 years ago and been in the furnature business and had picked up a large inventory of koa wood that he was now using up (must have cost two fortunes shipping over to the mainland...). But every time he tossed so much as a splinter of koa into the scrap bin, there was a scuffle as the rest of us scrambled for it. Koa chopsticks may sound like a poor use of material, but when you have a handfull of pieces as big around as pencils, what else can you do?
The ebony scraps I'll use for banjo bridges....

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Permalink Reply by Josh Gayou (SmokehouseGuitars) on May 11, 2010 at 6:23am

It's sure enough not a waste of material if it's all scrap anyway. Better you find something to do with it than just trash it. One of the things I've been doing is saving the sides from all the fretboards that I make when I trim them on my band saw. Rosewood, ebony, all that. Later, when I get off my butt and finally start doing bound fretboards, I'll have all this awesome material that I can plane down rather than just putting plastic strips on the thing.

Save all your scraps!

Alan Roberts said:

Dave V said:

The next time you have a slab of Koa, keep me in mind. I'd love to have a Koa toothpick.

I don't know about koa toothpicks, but I made up a bunch of koa chopsticks...
There was one guy last summer who came in and started turning out the most AMAZING koa and ebony boxes that any of have ever seen. Had lived in Hawai'i 20 years ago and been in the furnature business and had picked up a large inventory of koa wood that he was now using up (must have cost two fortunes shipping over to the mainland...). But every time he tossed so much as a splinter of koa into the scrap bin, there was a scuffle as the rest of us scrambled for it. Koa chopsticks may sound like a poor use of material, but when you have a handfull of pieces as big around as pencils, what else can you do?
The ebony scraps I'll use for banjo bridges....

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