To improve my first cigar box guitar build, I added a piece of 2" x 1/4" mahogany mull casing (ripped to 1.5") to the neck. I sanded it multiple times and applied multiple layers of clear shellac to it. I glued it to the neck with wood glue (while clamping I ran into issues with ink bleed on my clamp softeners). Then I also added fret marks with a silver sharpie (which then smeared while trying to clean things). I also screwed the neck to the cigar box in two places hoping to eliminate some odd buzzing/high harmonics that were occuring. Some of them were coming from the nut and/or bridge because the strings were not fully engaged or trapped by a notch in the nut or bridge.
For the nut and the bridge I used bamboo chopsticks, harder then the native wood used for the cigar box.
Liked you on evening mag. Need boxes? Check out store on 35SW and SW Barton, W. Seattle (NW corner). Retails a lot of cigars and sell the boxes cheap. Dave
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