Contest is closed and we have now chosen three winners from all the entries!!!

FIRST PLACE and a $100 gift certificate to www.CBGitty.com goes to Heatmiser George and his skeletal-carved "Johnny Coffinwood" guitar:

SECOND PLACE and a $50 gift certificate to www.CBGitty.com is D S Phillips with his gory "Ed Gein" guitar:

THIRD PLACE & a $25 C. B. Gitty gift certificate goes to JD Swann with "Voodoo"

 

These contests are almost impossible to judge, especially with so many noteworthy entries.  Congratulations to all the winners and a huge shout out to all the entries!

CONTEST IS CLOSED.  THANKS FOR ENTERING!  Original contest information below along with all entries:

It's that time of year!  We're looking for the wildest Halloween-inspired homemade instruments.  Coffin basses, creepy guitars, musical chainsaws, axe guitars, grave digger shovel guitars... get weird or go home!

The rules:

  1. Post your entries below. NO MORE THAN THREE PHOTOS AND ONE VIDEO PER ENTRY.  Include a one paragraph description with your entry.
  2. Entries must be submitted between September 25 and October 22, 2017.
  3. Entries must not have been submitted to any other Cigar Box Nation contest in the past.
  4. Instruments must be built by the submitter.

 

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This is my Halloween build off submission. Jason wanted a CBG of his own so i built him one.. it has a maple neck with an oak fretless board.(Jason is a slide guy) CB Gitty Shane Speal tuners and CB Gitty bluesblaster strings. what gives it its crunch is a MGB mini humbucker and cover. 500 k pot and a switchcraft jack. i made the volume knob with the antique token in it and of course Jason's mask comes off just in case. Thanks for looking and Happy Halloween everyone!

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i call him frankenstein it was one of my first builds using only scrap parts

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Vampirella and her friends. 

Holy crap that's awesome.

Thank you for considering my North Mississippi Allstars gig poster inspired Halloween themed 3 string cigar box guitar.  

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In the spirit of participation. Lots of great looking entries in this contest.

Oak neck and body, LR Baggs pickup and the SAW!!! 

"Ed Gein" CBG poplar neck, marble pupil carved eye head stock, toothpick frets, magazine eye markers, chicken bone bridge, human skin box.

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For inspiration purposes  only .

http://www.cigarboxnation.com/video/swamp-witch-guitars-halloween-2017

now go create  ;-)

“Bat Out Of Hell”

This build was inspired by James Ryman’s deviant art painting and sculpture “Play Dead”.  It is an electric 25” scale 4 string tenor hollow body flying V cut-away with a bat-wing scalloped bottom and top and bat shaped headstock.  It is constructed of solid maple with a through body neck and book matched/sequence matched flame maple veneer on the front, back and headstock.  I made the box corners using sheet copper, a Veritas metal bender and a soldering iron.  The finish is hand-rubbed artist oil paints and 14 coats of high gloss wiping varnish.

I purchased the majority of hardware from CB Gitty Crafter Supply as follows:

Skull tuners

Bone nut

Peruvian walnut fretboard

Skull shaped sound hole covers

Four pole rod piezo (routed into a bone bridge)

Skull volume knob (on a Cherub G6 G-Tone preamp)

The tailpiece is a cast iron hinge from Lee Valley.

Given the pre-amp, this monster is a real player capable of breaking glass!

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This is my entry in the contest 6 1/2 foot tall but very playable the head piece is carved from a warped 2x6, the neck is laminated 2x6 , fretboard is oak hand radius-ed (that was fun), the bridge is plywood, the gargoyles were cut on a scroll saw, the the skeleton hand was carved from laminated poplar, the body is hardwood underlayment  and is full braced, and has a sound post as well, the strings are trimmer strings, i used the guts of a sharpie to blacken them (sharpies contain solvents so when dry it doesn't come off), the stand was a tabletop and what was left of the 2x6 i used for the neck, tuners are just bass tuners from an old electric, and to hold that weight at the head stock i welded a brace from some nails, cotter keys, and washers to look like a spiderweb.  thanks for these contests they cause me to use my imagination and then challenge myself to make it a reality i had a blast building this!

and again...WOW, glad I didn't try and enter

Skeleton Key Guitars 3 string slider"Johnny Coffinwood".Hand carved poplar neck and hands,handmade spruce coffin sound box with hand cut celtic cross sound holes,bone nut,handmade mahogany bridge,brass/copper tailpiece,banjo tuners,Electric Delta 3 pole pickup,skull volume knob.If you want hear how she sounds go to the video section here on Cigar Box Nation and look up "Burn The Flames".She's a screamer !!!!!

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