Just built this, I don't know how to play and I am missing two strings but I will get them and at least my brother can use it to entertain me while I am smoking some cigars.
My New Guitar
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I know very little about guitars, especially electric.... but that is a cool looking setup.
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I don't either but i did see a cigar box guitar on you tube and decided I needed to build one. Now to go to Kansas City and get Pepin to autograph it then a buddy of mine that does auto painting is going to clear coat it.
Very Bo Diddley-ish. A nice homemade hollow body guitar. Would love to hear what it sounds like.
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Honestly I have no idea all I did was take an old Peavey that I found and worked the cigar box to the exact same specs and put all of the components from the Peavey in it. Now to find an amp and see if I wired it right. lol. I really don't know much about guitars. Does the amp supply the power because there is no on off switch for the guitar? The strings sound good, out of tune but good.
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Electric guitars are passive, a small electrical signal is generated by magnetic effects between the pickup magnet and the vibrating string. The amplifier boosts that signal to a level you can actually hear. Listening to an unplugged electric guitar does tell you a lot about how it will sound plugged in, though.
Now go buy some damned strings and an electronic tuner.
Get one that plugs into the guitar, the kind that use a mic are finicky, especially on electrics.
Now go buy some damned strings and an electronic tuner.
Get one that plugs into the guitar, the kind that use a mic are finicky, especially on electrics.
I just love the tobacco finish on it!
Once you get it all set up, try playing "Light My Fire" on it. You're sure to get some smokin' solos out of it!
Jeff in Boston
Once you get it all set up, try playing "Light My Fire" on it. You're sure to get some smokin' solos out of it!
Jeff in Boston
Electric guitars are passive, a small electrical signal is generated by magnetic effects between the pickup magnet and the vibrating string. The amplifier boosts that signal to a level you can actually hear. Listening to an unplugged electric guitar does tell you a lot about how it will sound plugged in, though.
Now go buy some damned strings and an electronic tuner.
I use a BOSS TU-2. tuner. That thing is a workhorse.
That is very very cool looking! 
definitely nifty looking! 
i might have to try my hand at one of those.
to the op or anyone else who might know-- do you get decent resonance from the cigar box? would it be able to double as an acoustic? i realize the box is not made to spec for the specific resonant frequencies, but you should be able to get some sort of volume out of it, however small...
i might have to try my hand at one of those. to the op or anyone else who might know-- do you get decent resonance from the cigar box? would it be able to double as an acoustic? i realize the box is not made to spec for the specific resonant frequencies, but you should be able to get some sort of volume out of it, however small...
just making double sure, do the measurements from the nut to the 12th fret match the measurements from the 12th fret to the bridge? Looks ~1" off from the pics
I've been using my Boss for many years and it's been great
smoking !!!!!!
cant you imagine if his girl friend box of kotex was just laying around ???
Without a sound hole, you won't get much passive amplification, so no, I doubt you'd be able to play it effectively unplugged. However, the hollow body will make it sound more like an acoustic when it is amped up. Really the only way to know how she sounds is get her tuned up and play a few songs.
Very clever.
based on the tension of the strings, i didn't think a central sound hole would be structurally possible, but was was wondering if you could get away with that by cutting some f-holes, or perhaps something cut out on the sides of the box.
