No.11 The Top Notch Cigar.Finally. A cigar box fiddle that sound like a fiddle and has volume to match my regular fiddle. Yes folks. My first STOGIVARIOUS. I decided to look at this thing a little differently. I know that most violins are made of very thin wood, and then those "plates" are tap tuned. Taking this into consideration, I first planed the parts down to 1/8inch. Then attached an electronic tuner to the top and then the bottom and tapped tuned them, removing a small amount of wood until each tuned in about "G". If I had better equipment, I might have done a better job. Also, I haven't found a site stating just what to tap tune a cigar box to.
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Very nice.