Antique Cuban Seal cigar box was given to me a few years back by Justin and Nikki on one of thier visits here to Nebraska and I've been saving it for a build for myself, the box just has so much Mojo to it!Maple neck/heel/fretboard, walnut fret dots, walnut headstock wings, old hinge tailpiece, maple saddle w/old bolt bridge, onyx nut, pearloid open gear tuners, maple 3 string pickup, vintage strap buttons, 19" fretted scale. Tuned GDG.Thanks so much Justin and Nikki! It turned into a nice lil" picker for sure.
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Thanks AGP! I went with the shorter 19" scale to kind of go in proportion with the smaller box, it has a pretty good voice acoustically and sounds very good plugged. I didn't go with any soundholes as these old boxes are solid wood and not plys so they're pretty fragile to be cutting soundholes. Plus I wanted to leave as much of the label work in place. I sat out on the cabin porch and picked a little unplugged yesterday and it has good volume.
"Looks Great", yep lots of Mojo there!, good choice of hardware etc., particularly like the Pup, 19" scale, don't think I've done one of those, how does it sound???
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Thanks Dave! I do like these old boxes :-)
Thanks Al!
Thanks John!
Thanks AGP! I went with the shorter 19" scale to kind of go in proportion with the smaller box, it has a pretty good voice acoustically and sounds very good plugged. I didn't go with any soundholes as these old boxes are solid wood and not plys so they're pretty fragile to be cutting soundholes. Plus I wanted to leave as much of the label work in place. I sat out on the cabin porch and picked a little unplugged yesterday and it has good volume.
Thanks Pick! The Yums is appreciated :-)
Thanks Bruce!
Real nice... :0)
Love it.
"Looks Great", yep lots of Mojo there!, good choice of hardware etc., particularly like the Pup, 19" scale, don't think I've done one of those, how does it sound???