Hi, can anybody suggest the best cigar box to make a six stringer. I have a bolt on fender neck.
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Good question 'cause I need suggestions also. I'm building a 6-string guitar for a young friend using a wooden six bottle wine case (Pulenta Gran Malbec from Argentina). She's married to an Argentine, thus the wooden box has family significance. I've reduced the depth of the case and thinned the boards to improve resonance. I've built the neck from scrap mahogany from a cabinet shop and scrap walnut for the fretboard. The project is more than a challenge for my skills, but it's what a good friend wants. My next build MUST use a cigar box!
Ive decided to go ahead with the build while waiting for a good answer that hopefully I will be able to use for my next six stringer......Ive built a solid body within the cigar box and attached the neck with bolts........so far so good.......
thank you ill check them out......
mighty pretty looking Guitars..........
I will look for them on Ebay now.....Thank you
There is no Spoon!
"best" is subjective. Use whatever appeals to you that when you look at it you think "that box is begging to be a 6-stringer".
If its acoustic only, bigger is louder, smaller is more traveler-portable.
If its a mag pickup, anything will work, there are pleanty of commercially produced electric guitars that have NO body, just a through neck with no wings that work fine.
So feel free to be creative.
Good advice.....Thank you
I've done this before, granted using a Cookie Tin instead of a Cigar Box. you need to build an internal framework inside the Cigar Box with a length of wood sticking out of one end, to mount the neck on. I've used White Ash or Mahogany for mine, but anything solid enough will do the job, you don't need a lot of framework, just enough to mount the neck and re-enforce the bridge mount.
Here's my one
thank you for the advice.......nice guitar
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