Hi everyone. Help please.
Mostly I make diddley bows but recently I acquired a box that lends itself to a fiddle so I built a one-string cigar box fiddle. So far so good. However, I want to make a small bow to play the instrument (I would prefer not
Read more…This is my first attempt at a Rickert type Pochette. Still can't get the neck completely straight but it seems to be ok.
Read more… Having made a couple of CBG's and an amp, I decided to try my hand at a cigar box fiddle. I chose an La Aroma de Cuba box I had purchased, because it was the right depth for a chin rest attachment, and very nearly the correct width of a 4/4 size
I'm planning out my first fiddle build. My son started playing violin and it's inspired me. I'm using purpleheart laminated with maple for the neck. I already have my accessories, tail, pegs, chin rest, strings, bridge, even fine tuners. I'm hoping t
Read more…Hi Everyone! Greetings from St. Louis. This is my first attempt at a cello. Basically are large version of the violin plans that I have but a little more challenging! Basswood body with Spruce top. A lot of lessons were learned with this one. Sorry
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So, I've got most of the parts together to start building what I am going to call the "Stumpwater" fiddle. It ain't done yet, but I'm already working on the "Stumpwater Blues" song, "...Oh, I've got the blues...Got the Stumpwater blues...".
Read more…am going to build an upright bass. Does anyone have plans or information that may help especially with scale length, tuning machines, use of piezo and any other helpful information? If you can point me in the right direction it would be a help e.g. s
Read more…I am struglling on how to add an adjustable shoulder rest to my cigar box fiddle. I saw Diane in Chicago fiddle at a workshop in madison and thought it was really great, and looking at Steve Millers fiddles inspired me to make a modification of his
Read more…So incredibly thorough, I can hardly wait to comb through it!
Read more…For those new to cb fiddle building, permit me to share some hard-earned tips to get you started right.
1. Getting Started: If you want to build a full-size (4/4) violin, it is critical that you get the correct measurements for the string length
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Greetings from the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of Asheville, NC. I'm a newbie interested in building a Cigar Box Fiddle. My Mama told me recently that my Great-Grandfather made and played a homemade fiddle, back in the day, barn dance
Read more…I gave up waiting for a thin-sided whiskey box to come along, so I built my own out of spruce. I'll be putting the fingerboard on in the next few days and installing the tuners (cut down 3-on-a-plates to 2-on-a plates). Pyrography inspiration from
Read more…This is the real deal. Found at a yard sale in Columbiana, Ohio in 2010. The best souvenir I could hope for. I haven't changed a thing except the bridge and strings. It's 3/4 size and I would think the kid that got it would have been thrilled. T
Read more…Klangbox violin n°2
Klangbox violin n°3
Klangbox violin n°4 - brass covered cutaways
Klangbox violin n°5 - inner bracing
Well the build has been going very will considering I have no expirence with fiddles. Luckily my years of wood working expirence and patience is getting me through. So far I have constructed the soundbox and have roughed out the neck and have it re
Read more…I am working a box fiddle for the first time. In fact it is my first experience with a fiddle period. For me it makes sense that if I want to learn to play a fiddle, I want to learn all about it from construction up. So that is what I am doing. P
Read more…A friend gave me an old beat up fiddle to play with, in pretty bad condition actually. I want to remove the neck and use it to construct a cigar box fiddle. Any recommendations on how to dis-assemble a fiddle without destroying it entirely?
Thank
Read more…First off, Dennis Havlena is my hero. Here's his page on instruments he's altered/made/unmade. One of them is a hardanger conversion from a beater fiddle:
Here are blogs from two builders who've documented their proc
Read more…This is my first attempt at a cigar box fiddle, I have never played a violin or the fiddle, but I wanted to build one.
I had it in an all wood box, but it was too wide, so I switched it to this box I picked up at the local smoke shop.
I loosely f
Read more…Here's the Text, Photos and Diagrams from the article:
How to Make a CIGAR BOX VIOLIN
By P.M. Pennell
Popular Homecraft
February-March, 1940
Photo Right:
A young maker tries out his cigar box violin
Photo Below:
The kind of Cigar Box Violin that thi
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