Mar 292010
 

Mark brought over his copy of Make, and it turns out this last Makezine had a great article on building cigar box guitars. It sounded like a really interesting project, so we went off to the hardware store to purchase some oak timber. Many days/hours/blood stains later, the fruits of our labor emerged, tuned and ready to play. cigar box guitar . Lots of hack potential, and an easy fix if I break something. Bonus, tablature looks fine in links browser on the Z2, though you will have to scroll quite a lot. I’ll see about getting gnome guitar working, should be interesting (mono bleh). Yet again another use case for the Z2 I wouldn’t have imagined.

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  4 Responses to “Finished building my first guitar”

  1. Looks great man, You should upload a video showing it in action.

    -Adam

  2. Hey thanks Adam, I’ll probably upload one when I get some free time to practice :)

  3. Yeah, I’d like to see you doing some rifs on that cool axe!

    -Linda in Bedford :)

  4. Good to know :)
    I’m working on building a wrapped magnetic coil pickup for this guitar, so look for a followup post about that. Hopefully I’ll get on the video at that point :)

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