Cigar Box Ukulele Plans

A homemade hawaiian cigar box ukulele popular mechanics june 1917.

Cigar box ukulele plans.

You need time patience and some basic wood work ing tools. If you have a choice find one of solid wood. I paid 4 for mine but it shouldn t really cost more than 2 wood for the neck and bridge for a concert sized ukulele i needed a 14 x 2 x 2 5 inch block for the neck and head. Making a cigar box ukulele is not terribly difficult.

The uke is well suited to cigar box treatment. This was the first ukulele i built hopefully it can help inspire you to bulid one. The overall size and volume of a standard ukulele is ap proximately the same as many readily available cigar boxes. Simple cigar box ukulele.

How to make a cigar box ukulele. The one string banjo the cigar box guitar and similar vaudeville favorites are giving way to the tantalizing ukulele and the home mechanic to be up to date in his musicla craftsmanship must fall in line. Cigar box ukulele plans by charles a. Cigar box ukulele plans by charles a.

King circa 1920 in the pines cigar box ukulele lesson from one hand dan russell take em away by old crow medicine show cigar box ukulele lesson from one hand dan russell i still miss someone by johnny cash cigar box ukulele lesson from one hand dan russell. I found a cedar box with a plywood base. Click the image to view the full size version. There s lot of other instructables on cigar box instruments but i figured i d show how i built mine.