| Author | Message | ||
     Trojan |
I recently started making cigar box guitars as a bit of a hobby and this is the 4th one I've done. This time I started looking around the workshop and unsurprisingly it is full of odds and ends from motorcycles, so decided to incorporate a few into the build  So...pickup surround is from a Racing Motor Italian S1 air filter, Bridge is an XB wrist pin, tail piece is an XR1200 belly pan bracket and the nut is from a gearchange mechanism of indeterminate origin. Headstock decoration and volume/tone pot plate are from an aluminium race number plate The box is an antique item I picked up and the neck is oak with a sapele fret board. It actually plays well too which is a bonus of course!    | ||
| Court |
Very cool ! | ||
| Kenm123t |
Neat idea I played Sax and Clarinet but I love guitars never played but enjoy a great guitarist | ||
| Ceejay |
Excellent! I just gave a friend some ambrosia maple for a thru neck design cigar box guitar. he's a moto guy too, so I'm going to show him yours, as he's having trouble with materials... | ||
| Trojan |
That's the great thing with these, you just use what you have around. The last one I did used a kitchen cupboard door handle as a tail piece/string guide | ||
| Rocket_in_uk |
I don't play and likely never will, but I'm a fan of guitars. Matt that is bloody brilliant. Here's my two string CBG.  Rocket in England | ||
| Buellish |
This one was made by a friend of mine.The neck was cut out of a deck board from a WWII destroyer.He calls them Screaming Cockatoo Cigar Box Guitars.    | ||
| Rocket_in_uk |
This one was made by a friend of mine. Wonderful. Will we get any oil can guitars along for this topic I wonder. Rocket in England | ||
| Phelan |
Zing! | ||
| Buellish |
I met a guy at Barber Vintage days who had a 3 and a 4 string made from cookie tins. | ||
| Trojan |
Here are some I made earlier.... Sold this first one to a guy in France  and the blue one to a guy in Switzerland  | ||
| Rocket_in_uk |
Brilliant Matt. Rocket in England | ||
| Hootowl |
Here's a guy with a one string guitar. Seasick Steve. I've got a couple of his albums. Pretty good, I think. | ||
| Hughlysses |
I'm late chiming in here... Very cool Trojan! You're in good company among guitar builders. Didn't Brian May's guitar include some motorcycle parts? IIRC, the spring for the vibrato was a valve spring out of some British bike. | ||
| Ceejay |
@ Hoot - awesome! Seasick Steve rocks...haven't heard that one - I make fun of my buddy a little for spending a little too much time making his cigarbox "perfect" and that song proves it in one way at least... Don't get me wrong - I've gone that way or tried to on many things, but after having and watching my kids it certainly makes me appreciate more those those times when I forgot that playing (anything) is what mattered most and the appreciation for folks that can and do get down with what they got is something worthwhile... | ||
| Hootowl |
We made guitars out of coffee cans and fishing line in music camp back in the 70s. Yeah, I'm a music geek. When I saw Steve with his 2x4 guitar, and the story that went along with it, I had to buy his stuff. |
