Posted by Rand Moore on October 25, 2010 at 11:03am
This was a quick build using a neck & head that I salvaged off a round cake tin "canjo-banjo". It was my first long-neck cigar box guitar. The neck is also my first "bolt-on" (actually a glue-on & screw-on), as opposed to a thru-the box neck design. When I strung it up and tuned it up the neck bowed a lot, so I had to add a "heel" to the outside of the cigar box to help better secure the neck to body "joint". It still bows up a little. I may go and replace the heal with something that looks and works better sometime. Notice the head is slotted with a 3x1 set of geared tuners. The neck is fretted with bailing wires, where each end of the fret is bent. Then each side of the neck is drilled and the fret is hammered into place (no glue). The fretwork is done with diatonic spacing. It uses the 3 thinnest strings from a set of banjo strings.
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