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My First Cigar Box Uke

Posted by Ian Edwards on June 20, 2010 at 6:14pm

In fact this is my first Cigar Box anything. Took about three hours to knock together. I did cheat a bit using the neck of one of those cheap £20 ukes. Headstock is decorated with the inner paper from the box.I'm surprised and impressed with how it turned out. Doesn't quite hold it's tuning but I thinks that's because the glue for the neck joint still needs to set.

Comments

Ian Edwards July 10, 2010 at 4:58am

Tuning is fine. Think it was a combination of the neck glue setting and the strings stretching.
Phil Hall June 21, 2010 at 7:13pm

Beautiful job
Wild Rover June 21, 2010 at 4:49pm

No such thing as cheating when comes to building cigar box guitars. You just run with what you got. Great looking build. Play it loud, play it proud.
Ian Edwards June 21, 2010 at 3:34am

John,
cheers and hope so. Saw a flyer for your fest last year but didn't come. Hope to come to this years.

Douglas,
I don't know the correct terminology but that's not the paper off the box but the flap that would fold over the cigars inside the box.
Trimmed to size and glued with a bit of Pritstick paper glue.
ChickenboneJohn June 21, 2010 at 2:06am

Hi Ian

Welcome to Cigar Box madness...and you're in Birmingham..hope to see you around!
Eric Townsend June 20, 2010 at 10:40pm

Boy, the headstock treatment just makes the whole thing work. Sweet.
Douglas Eric Marsalis June 20, 2010 at 8:22pm

How did you get the paper off the box so nicely????

Douglas
Douglas Eric Marsalis June 20, 2010 at 8:19pm

That is a great Fn idea. That looks really nice on the neck. You have given me a nice idea. Thanks.

Douglas