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 I've been hovering about the cigar box thing for quite a while now. Recently my step daughter came home for holidays with a new boyfriend in tow who like myself plays guitar, very well as it turned out, unlike myself. Anyhow we got to talking about guitars etc. and I told him I was thinking about building a cigar box guitar,he got very enthuiastic about and here we are with my first build, just needed that little nudge, gotta build him one now as a thank you.

 It is made from the lid off an Anzac biscuit tin. Anzac stands for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps which was formed to fight in the 1st world war every year commemorative items are brought out tins of Anzac biscuits being one. The rest of the sound box is made of red gum which I scavenged off the firewood heap and milled up on the band saw. The neck is made of Jarrah, both these woods are Australian natives. The bridge, nut, volume and tone nobs are made from old 308 bullet shells, that was the calibre the Anzacs used in the first world war. The pick ups are a mystery as they were given to me by a mate who had no idea what they were off, they look very sixties.

 So that's it folks my first build. Got orders for 2 more now, a mechanic mate want's a hub cap gitty and the bass player in my blues band want's a bass.