YES! Its finally finished - My Cigar box monster

[melp]

Hi All,

Just to let you know that I have finally finished my cigar box guitar.

Actually I finished the construction at Christmas time, but the finishing got to be a bit of an obsession.

Its got a electric pickup, P90, and a couple of Piezo bugs under the top.

Many thanks to Chickenbone John, for the advice and inspiration. I seem to remember that CBJ knocks out a cigar box in a couple of days, mine took me around six months!

A classic case of of mission creep, originally I just wanted something with a couple of strings, al la Seasick Steve, but eventually turned it into a project that was a "normal" guitar minus the body.

The theme, as if one was needed, was the "Gambler" guitar, hence all the card symbols and dice.

I also used this project to learn how to do inlay work.

Some pics







Lots of fun to make, even the neck carve with a Swiss Army knife, I had no specialist tools.

Cheers

Mel

[oldmanblue]

great looking guitar ,well done.omb

[Michael Messer]

That is quite a piece of work Mel. Beautiful.

The dice remind me of my late friend, Jesse Guitar Taylor's Newman guitar with the dice.



Shine On
Michael

[thebluesbear( al)]

mel

so when you next are over.......please bring her .....its your turn for show and tell ..LOL

Al