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Does anyone have some pics of their cigar boxes to share.

Hey all, First of all thank you for accepting me as a member.

I have been kicking around with guitars since my 15th Birthday present of an old acoustic. Since I'm now 55, you would think i would be pretty good but life has a habit of getting in the way.

So I finally got around to building a smokey amp. The first hurdle was finding a pack of cigarettes that didn't have all those warnings on the pack. I beat this by downloading a scanned pack of Lucky Strike with all sides and front and back included. I got an empty pack from the bloke next door and through the wonders of publisher, I was able to superimpose the lucky strike over his pack. Looks the deal and sounds ok.

While I was printing out the lucky strike pack, I got to thinking I could do this with cigar boxes as well. Only problem is the local tobacconist doesn't have any empty boxes. So if anyone out there is willing to scan in his or her cigar box on all sides, I would be eternally grateful. High res photos would be ok as well.

When I get some scans, I would be happy to share with anyone who wants a copy and even make you a cigar box you might not have.

Looking forward to making my first 3 string cigar box guitar.

Greg

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Comment by Paul Craig on September 1, 2017 at 8:48pm: I had a 10watt Behringer guitar amp that burned up the amp board. I removed the amp board and built a Ruby 1/2watt 386 chip amp and put it in that amp cab, sounds better than the original and almost as loud. I love the 386 chip amp sound. I even made a dual chip bridged 1watt amp awhile back and traded it to another CBN member for some goodies.

I like the cigarette pack idea. I would do a separate pack for the speaker though. Maybe do a "carton" for the amp and dual speakers.

Comment by A.D.EKER on August 28, 2017 at 9:51pm: or more front stuff to cover?

Comment by A.D.EKER on August 28, 2017 at 9:48pm: Or like this ? I have More,Pictures that is!

Comment by A.D.EKER on August 28, 2017 at 9:45pm: Or This?

Comment by A.D.EKER on August 28, 2017 at 9:44pm: or this?

Comment by A.D.EKER on August 28, 2017 at 9:44pm: Like this you mean?

Comment by Greg Tedford on August 28, 2017 at 1:31am: Hey Richard.

The gee-tar plug is on the bottom. I added a socket for earphones as well but didn't have 2 gee-tar sockets so don't have any audio out for and external speaker yet.

Didn't think about the hard wired earth on the input jack. Will have to do that next.

Comment by Greg Tedford on August 27, 2017 at 11:24pm: Thanks for the plethora of replys.

You're right Richard, that is a good word.

I thought my situation was untenable but with a little help from you blokes, I am in Elysium.

That's enough of that. My head is starting to hurt.

Checked out those links and got some great pics.

Here are some pics of my smokey.

Comment by gary herget on August 26, 2017 at 2:10am: There are websites you can go to to do the same thing. You can print out all the labels you want or need.