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One Way To Build A Cigar Box Guitar

Written by Erik Ryman | Tuesday, 29 December 2009 13:36 |

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One Way To Build A Cigar Box Guitar
Specifying the specification
Step One: Measure Three Times, Then Cut
Step Two: Preparing the Box
Step Three: Scalloping your neck
Step Four: The First Cut Don't Hurt At All
Step 5: A Close Shave
Step 6: Killer Driller
Step 7: Slick Cut
Step 8: The Angle of the Dangle
Step 9: Me and my girl, Fret cutting
Step 10: Making a Piezo Pickup
Step Eleven: Finishing the neck
Step Twelve: Take it to the Bridge
Step Thirteen: And Finally...
Things You Should Know
Parts List
Next Steps
All Pages

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Step Three: Scalloping your neck

No, I'm kidding, we're not going all Swedish and sweepy tippy tappy at this point.
As I mentioned in Step Two, we need to make the neck thinner where it will be within the box, and marking the bit of wood we will be removing on the neck is again a good idea.

To do this, I simply lay the box on the neck where I see it sitting. Next, I made some pencil marks for the start and end positions of the box, then I measured the depth of the box lid (1/4" on the one I'm using here, which I'd guess might be pretty average), and on the sides of the neck marked the same distance. After that I coloured in the area we'll be removing later on.

How we do that, I'm not right sure at the moment but I guess it will be with a chisel or a file or rasp or something.

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