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BUILD OFF!!! 2014 Cigar Box Ukulele Contest submission thread

Cigar Box Ukulele Contest!

Cigar Box Nation is looking for the most artistic, wildest, most radical or most visionary cigar box ukulele. Do you think your creations are the best? Show them to us. The rules are simple:

1. The instrument must be made from a real cigar box.

2. It must fit within the classification of a ukulele (Uke soprano, concert, tenor or baritone scale + 4 nylon strings).

3. Instruments made from cigar box ukulele kits or from dismantled old ukes are acceptable as well as instruments fully made in your own workshop.

4. Instrument must be built by you.

Two prizes will be awarded from C. B. Gitty Crafter Supply.

Grand prize: $50 C. B. Gitty prize pack + $50 C. B. Gitty gift certificate

Runner up: $25 C. B. Gitty prize pack + $25 C. B. Gitty gift certificate

How to submit your entry:

Build the greatest cigar box ukulele you can
Take THREE pictures of your entry. Three pictures only (no photoshops of several angles in one pic).
Post your pictures in this submission thread along with any fun details about your instrument.

Contest runs from May 9, 2014 - June 30, 2014. Enter as many instruments as you wish.

In any case of changes to these rules will be posted on the home page of Cigar Box Nation and also in this group.

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Permalink Reply by James Radke on June 16, 2014 at 9:31am

I hope you enjoy looking at 'This Train Runs on Time' a soprano cigar box uke. I was given an old and forgotten and abused cigar box which held cigars which were sold at the Railway Exchange Building in St Louis, Missouri. The box probably dates from the 1920s. The box was almost pure black with the oxidation of age, I scraped the the top, back and sides to reveal the hidden beauty. The bottom of box was warped and discolored from a liquid the had leaked and congealed several decades. The uke has a homemade piezo pickup and several coats of nitro-cellulose lacquer.

I hope to see more labors of love.

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Permalink Reply by Larry Epstein on June 16, 2014 at 9:53am

Here is baritone uke #5 that I built using a 5-inch diameter Charles Atchison aluminum resonator cone, Tone Monster passive pick up, Dan Duke maple neck, walnut fret board, Worth brown fluorocarbon strings, Shane Speal tuners, bone nut and bridge, and hardware from CB Gitty and others. I refinished the Padrón Anniversary box, carved and finished the neck and set the frets, carved the tailpiece, neck heel and the biscuit, and assembled everything using hand instruments and one small freehand drill. Scale length is 19-1/8 inch.

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Permalink Reply by Piht Bull (Delta Dawg Guitars) on June 18, 2014 at 2:22pm

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Permalink Reply by Piht Bull (Delta Dawg Guitars) on June 18, 2014 at 2:32pm

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Permalink Reply by the anonymous pick on June 18, 2014 at 4:36pm

kewl!!!

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Permalink Reply by Michael Fred Johnson on June 18, 2014 at 11:44pm

Neck looks good with the Olde World box

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Permalink Reply by Piht Bull (Delta Dawg Guitars) on June 21, 2014 at 10:17am

im obsessed with Rocky Patel . Boxes and Smokes .

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Permalink Reply by brdfrd on June 19, 2014 at 5:03pm

Here is my first entry: A matching pair of soprano ukes. I made these for my friend's 4 and 5 year old sons--visiting them in Vermont this weekend and wanted to take them something fun. They're about as simple as it gets. Colored tooth picks for frets, small brass hinges for tailpieces, traditional uke pegs--scales are 13.125" and 13.625".

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Permalink Reply by RTZGUITARS on June 21, 2014 at 9:16am

From the look of this tread the CBU world could give the CBG world a run for it's money.

I have other projects going so my new Uke won't be done in time but I must say "well done folk's". Is there a CBN Ukulele recording in the future. I sure would like to hear these great looking instruments. Awesome!

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Permalink Reply by jamie bark on June 22, 2014 at 1:40pm

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Permalink Reply by jamie bark on June 22, 2014 at 1:49pm

This is my first ever uke. 17" scale, plays like a dream... Maple fretboard on curly maple neck with cocobolo stripes. Zebrawood bridge and tailpiece and bone nut and bridge. Very proud of it... first instrument I made with a bolt on neck. I thought I would have an issue with intonation, but it set up right the first time-.