Thread: 3 String Cigar Box Guitar

I'm free sat

OK, where and when?

This sounds like a cool project

Here's the box

It looks nice, are you sure you want to cover it up?

Your right, why mess around it is a good looking box

If it was a cheapo box, I would do it, but its nice as it is...

Box was free

I'm actually looking for empty cigar boxes for an idea I have. Especially the yellow ones with the fancy graphics.

Slightly off topic but it may amuse, I spent four years at university studying acoustic guitar making,me and my fellow students were a diverse lot but one thing we all had in common was a perverse desire to make stringed instruments from the most ridiculous items, some that spring to mind were a meat pie tin banjo (minus the pie), a lap steel guitar made from an old drawer, and in my case an electric guitar constructed from a cricket bat, and an electric guitar whose body began life as a wooden toilet seat, the last two were done to really annoy my tutor who was a classical guitar maker and had a pathological hatred for electrics which he dubbed 'cricket bats with strings' which were basically a load of c**p.
We were great rivals with the early fretted instrument makers who occupied the sixth floor of our building, so we devised a competition two teams of eight students from early fretted and modern fretted , to construct a complete and fully functional acoustic guitar in 24 hours, needless to say my lads trumped early fretted and presented the finished instrument with two hours to spare, to this day I don't know how we did it, that was fourteen years ago and the guitar is still going strong, happy days!

So what time and where I got 99% of what's needed except for wood for the neck. What should I buy for that maple?