Bobiron

Here is a youtube demo:

Hi there, I have finally finished this and here are the completed pictures: Front view: http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e307/bobiron/IMG_2773.jpg Back view: http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e307/bobiron/IMG_2777.jpg Top close up: http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e307/bobiron/IMG_2789.jpg Inside with the back off: http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e307/bobiron/IMG_2783.jpg Headstock: http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e307/bobiron/IMG_2775.jpg The label: http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e307/bobiron/IMG_2784.jpg Plays ok, even done a gig with this. The piezo and humbucker combined sound great. The quality of the machine heads are not great and the needs to be kept an eye on a little to much for my liking. Maybe I will put some better ones in to address that issue. Overall very happy with it. Now onto the next one. PS I dispensed with the high strung idea after stringing it up that way an decided to go standard instead.

Good on you for trying something different here. I like the combination of ideas you have used. Are you still going to use a piezo somewhere?

No Nylon for this baby, its steel all the way. Classical neck... no truss rod, right? Not a good combination with steel strings. Yeah I know but, I am using a high strung set which will have less tension and I will probably tune it down if it becomes an issue.

No Nylon for this baby, its steel all the way.

Ok time for an update, yes some progress has been made. See below for links to pics. Neck and Body http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e307/bob...odySeperate.jpg Neck offered up to the body http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e307/bobiron/NBJoined.jpg Neck joined to the body http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e307/bobiron/Aerial1.jpg Neck Joined to body with HB http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e307/bob...erialwithMB.jpg Body shot with 1 string http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e307/bobiron/BS1.jpg Headstock http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e307/bobiron/Headstock.jpg Full front Mockup view http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e307/bobiron/Aerial2.jpg Body mockup font view http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e307/bobiron/Mockup1.jpg Back view mockup http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e307/bobiron/Mockup2.jpg On the guitar stand http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e307/bobiron/Onstand.jpg On the ironing board http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e307/bob...oningboard2.jpg On the ironing board with the iron http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e307/bob...oningBoard1.jpg Ok thats enough progress for now.

Nice shots there Jehle, It is starting to look real great. I love the headstock shape, f-holes are cool too.

Sorry to say, but no. I had to let it go before I could record anything with it. I'm kicking myself for that now. I'll just have to make another one. Pity it would have been great to hear the result.

Thanks for the site links Mr J they are real cool....and yeah that guy is the sizzle, very inspiring.

Very nice build there, no chance of some sound clips I suppose.

Well I care, these are interesting to make and I think just as creative. I am very interested in box type guitars in general, not just cigar ones. They have a certain appeal that I don't have in my standard shapes that I own, i.e. Gibson LP Std, Burns Marquee, Martin D28 and a bunch of others. In spite of owning these lovely examples I love to create a unique instrument. I guess that is what drives many of us on this forum to build our own whatever it is we build. See my Artbox brocoilli build for my current project using parts I already have. The dobro variant really appeals...sound clips pse when available.

So... instead of trying to add length to the back of the box, why can't you add depth to the heel of the neck? It's surgury either way, but this one seems like it'd be more ascthetically pleasing in the end. Thanks for that suggestion, yes I am thinking along those lines. Here are some more progress pics: Neck stripped of finish. The neck will be painted and lacquered. Fretboard sanded ready for faux ebony process Closeup. I will polish and level frets before I start this process. I want to use a marine lacquer on the fretboard to make it hard and to stop the wear...the frets will wear out before the board does in that case. But the neck had quite bad wear as shown below. I had to sand that out the best I could. As the box is not long enough for the scale length I need to block the heal out some 25mm by the looks to get a classical style bridge on the top. I want the back to open when the neck is attached so I can get access for the electrics. So I need to come up with something that has rigidity. Suggestions welcome. Closeup The artbox sides are quite thick but not very high, but enough to get a screw or 2 in there to hold a block I suppose. The fretboard will be glued to the top which is 3mm thick MDF(the top has a veneer as is fashionable these days). The box will be painted anyway veneer or not.

That is right Hector I thought I had enough room, the bridge would end up right on the edge and that would be no good, as it would defeat the prupose of having a box. So I will need to pack out the heal box somehow. Suggestions welcome of course. I would like to have room for a standard classical bridge, so I probably need to pack out 25mm to have the space. The neck is 332mm to the 12th fret so need at least that plus allowing for a 30 wide bridge. The box is 332mm long too...Sods law applies damn it. Not as tidy as I thought but hey that is part of the build. See more pictures below for more progress.

Hi I am new to this forum and like moding existing instruments at this stage. Here is my latest project inspired by a cigar guitar ad for daddy-mojo gats and of course one of the fathers of rock Bo-Diddley himself. So I came up with my basic design based on using an old artbox (hence the name) and an old neck that was still attached to something. Surgery all happens here: This is the artbox: ..and the neck donor The neck donor has not back ... probably the result of a video shoot ...actually found on the side of the road in the inorganic...thankyou whoever you are. First procedure is to free the neck from its body ...ahh thats better And offer it up to the artbox body ...yeah doesn't quite fit I will post more as the work is done.