Hi, can anybody suggest the best cigar box to make a six stringer. I have a bolt on fender neck.
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Hi, can anybody suggest the best cigar box to make a six stringer. I have a bolt on fender neck.
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Yes and very much worth doing. Done right and you'll have a guitar that sounds and plays exactly like a store bought one.
Remember to have plenty of support for the pull your going to get from all six strings. I built a semi hollowbody out of plywood.
I thank all of you for the good advice and help received......
If it doesn't need specifically to be an actual cigar box, do a search for an 8 compartment tea box.
This will give you the depth you need for most any type of build.
You can even drop underneath and get a dog bowl to fit with one of these with a bolt on neck. I know this because I've done it.
Ebay tea box
Thats a great idea.......Thank you for advice
I've done this before, granted using a Cookie Tin instead of a Cigar Box. you need to build an internal framework inside the Cigar Box with a length of wood sticking out of one end, to mount the neck on. I've used White Ash or Mahogany for mine, but anything solid enough will do the job, you don't need a lot of framework, just enough to mount the neck and re-enforce the bridge mount.
Here's my one
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thank you for the advice.......nice guitar
There is no Spoon!
"best" is subjective. Use whatever appeals to you that when you look at it you think "that box is begging to be a 6-stringer".
If its acoustic only, bigger is louder, smaller is more traveler-portable.
If its a mag pickup, anything will work, there are pleanty of commercially produced electric guitars that have NO body, just a through neck with no wings that work fine.
So feel free to be creative.
Good advice.....Thank you
https://www.cgarsltd.co.uk/accessories-empty-cigar-boxes-c-319_546.... Ask though, I tried an order of the "large" boxes and all three were 10" or less (good boxes though).
Chickenbone John is probably the best known seller in the UK and has an online shop
http://chickenbonejohn.myshopify.com Lookng through most of his current stock has sold but he does get busy and might have some he hasn't had chance to list yet. His email is at the bottom of the linked page
I have made mainly 6 string box guitars and use the old Boots wooden photo slide boxes which are perfect in size. eBay normally has one or two for auction at any one time (sell for around £10 plus £5 postage) make sure it holds 175 slides, any less means the box is less than 12". The wood looks good and is the ideal size for adding a bolt on neck.
This is the type I mean
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-Wooden-Projector-Slide-Box-Tray-S...
I will look for them on Ebay now.....Thank you
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