Build #12...

Finely got back on track with another cigar box guitar build. This one uses an "Acid" brand wooden cigar box. I got the cigar box from the local cigar shop 1882 Tobacconist on South First Street. I'll plug them since I'll probably get some more boxes there. 

I looked up Acid cigars on the internet. The company that makes these has numerous brands and they tout this brand as "a smoking experience like no other." I guess I'll have to market my guitars as a playing experience like no other. 

This one is pretty music like my most recent builds. Same tuners, same peizo pick up and this time I did all soldering and wiring my self instead of buying a pre wired kit. The guitar is for sale and I have about two others that I will soon be actively marketing. 

In case you wonder what it sounds like the acoustic sound is fair to good. I tuned A-E-A for a more model blues sound instead of the happy country A-C#-E tuning I usually prefer. The peizo sounds good through solid state amps, more so that a tube amp for some reason and really sounds good through the recent homemade amp build I did.  

So what does it sound like? Here is an original composition called the Sting Ray Blues. Click on the link to here the song.  It's dirty, it's nasty, it's about a sting ray that stung my foot. I tried to imitate that crawling in the bottom sound using a cigar box three string guitar, a homemade 2.5 watt amp and a heap plenty of wah-wah and delay. For $80 bucks I'll sell you this guitar and you can crawl the bottom also.