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Here's a cigar box uke I just finished
Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2014 12:19 am
by Ron Daves
Just finished this uke about a week ago. It was a fun project and only took 46 hours. Compares to the 160 hours I spent on my concert uke. It's been awhile since I built anything, so I had to regain my rhythm and got a couple things out of sequence (eg: put frets in before I installed the dots and didn't finish the FB first). I also learned, again, that the centerline is pretty important and you can't be sloppy with superglue
- Finished cigar box uke 6-2014.JPG (11.54 KiB) Viewed 11801 times
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Re: Here's a cigar box uke I just finished
Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2014 1:09 pm
by Bryan Bear
Nice! I just went to the St. Louis Cigar Box Guitar show this weekend. I didn't even know it existed. I saw a ton of interesting cigar box (and other things made into bodies) guitars, ukes, banjos. . . I can see how people get hooked on making these.
More pictures!
Re: Here's a cigar box uke I just finished
Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2014 1:45 pm
by Patrick Hanna
Cute little uke. I'd like to see more pics, too.
More pictures as requested
Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2014 12:06 am
by Ron Daves
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Re: Here's a cigar box uke I just finished
Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2014 10:33 am
by Beth Mayer
Love it. How is it braced?
Re: Here's a cigar box uke I just finished
Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2014 9:42 pm
by Patrick Hanna
Looks like a pretty little box full of fun to me!
Re: Here's a cigar box uke I just finished
Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2014 2:11 am
by Hans Bezemer
I Like it Ron!
Re: Here's a cigar box uke I just finished
Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2014 7:24 pm
by Ron Daves
Patrick Hanna wrote:Looks like a pretty little box full of fun to me!
Pretty simple "X" braces on both the top and bottom. Both ends of the box are reinforced with 1/16" panels on the inside.