Vintage Cigar Box

Old cigar box with genuine vintage friction tuners.
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  • Thanks, Bob :-)

  • Impressive and Suweeet looking instrument!

  • Brian, you're right, it was the work of Jeff 'Bones' Reilly that I'd seen.  Hopefully he won't mind me copying his technique on this one.  The logo really suited a round sound hole, and I didn't want to lose any of the character of the top - hence the fingerboard is chopped, rather than extending onto the top.

  • Thanks, Uncle John.  Yes, friction tuners are a bit of a pain to get just right but they had the right look.  The strings are D'Addario fluorocarbon, which I really like on ukes.  I built a steel strung uke but never really got a satisfactory sound from it.  The intonation was fine, it just sounded 'jangly'.  Maybe that's a good thing .....

  • Diggly!   You are the man.  I love the look of this, especially the sound hole cutout and drop down.   

    LOL,  I do not like friction tuners and prefer metal strings, but the look has Mo Joe.

  • “Bones” is probably who you’re thinking of, that’s kinda his trademark?

  • I found this old cigar box on eBay, complete with graffiti and candle wax.  I also got hold of some vintage friction tuners and turned it into a concert uke.  I saw the 'set back' sound hole idea on CBN a while ago - can't think who's original idea it was, but it wasn't mine.

    It's thin single-ply wood and quite lightly built so I thought I'd take a quick photo in case the string tension pulls it apart, hence the wayward string ends as they're still bedding in.

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