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After my drums and ukulele, I decided to try for a more CBG-esque instrument.  (Unfortunately, no cigar boxes were harmed in the making of this instrument).

This guitar uses CBG design principles, such as through neck, floating bridge, 4 strings, no truss rod, etc.  However instead of a cigar box (which I don't have ready access to), I decided to make my own box.  Since I am a sucker for punishment, I decided to make it in the traditional figure 8 shape... but without using any wood bending techniques.

First things first, I drew up the design in QCAD.  I took elements from various CBGs I have seen online:

Drawing on the skills I had learned in my drum construction, I then planned and cut segments at the proper angles to fit together for the body:

Glueing this together turned out to be very difficult due to the weird angles involved, but eventually I got it working:

You will note that one edge is not glued yet.  I used this to get the band saw inside, and cut the inside to shape.  I then glued the last edge, and glued on the back:

This turned out very well (and greatly exceeded my expectations).

(More posts and pictures to follow... I can't seem to add more pictures to this post)