Finished Cigar Box Ukulele!

[nachowayne]

Pics to come.

[nachowayne]

Here is an album of pics from the process. I'll put some pics in this thread also.

http://www.cigarboxnation.com/photo/...-box-ukulele-1

[nachowayne]

[c.nash]

Sickness!

[tom502]

Cool!

[GoVegan]

When are you going to put a video up of you playing it?

[nachowayne]

As soon as i get the strings semi broken in, I'll be putting something up.

[CoderGuy]

That is so cool! Now can you make a Ukulele Cigar Box to go with it?

[nachowayne]

It still opens, so I guess I could keep cigars in it. They might get all dried out though.

[Mr. Snuffleupagus]

Nice job! I'll bet it sounds great!

[GoVegan]

It will still play great even if it only sounds half as good as it looks!

[nachowayne]

Thanks y'all! Pretty excited about it, and it does sound like a ukulele. Just needs a little work on the nut to make the action a little lower. Now I want to make another one!

[nachowayne]

[GoVegan]

Cool video. I am glad you posted it and that's a sweet looking Ukulele. I like they way you incorporated a lot of common materials, with the exception of a princess fork, into making it. I am just curious, are there any types of wood that clearly sound better when you are making an instrument like that? I used to know a guy who made drums out of redwood and they sounded awesome. He took redwood boxes that he made and then cut a design into the top for a playing surface. For drumsticks he would take a superball and poke a chopstick into it. Sounds funky but they really sounded good.

[nachowayne]

Cool video. I am glad you posted it and that's a sweet looking Ukulele. I like they way you incorporated a lot of common materials, with the exception of a princess fork, into making it. I am just curious, are there any types of wood that clearly sound better when you are making an instrument like that? I used to know a guy who made drums out of redwood and they sounded awesome. He took redwood boxes that he made and then cut a design into the top for a playing surface. For drumsticks he would take a superball and poke a chopstick into it. Sounds funky but they really sounded good.

Well I really don't have a lot of hard fast rules when making one of these. I'm pretty new at this and kind of flying by the seat of my pants right now.

I do think that hard materials, hardwoods and plastics(or bone or metal), are best for whatever is going to contact the strings. That's just my opinion though and I may be full of shit. I think you get a brighter sound with harder materials. I also took a lot of care to make sure the soundboard was clear. The neck runs all the way through, but there is about a quarter inch between it and the soundboard on the inside.