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Workshop three builds

Cigar box instruments on a bench: a violin, a guitar, boxes and necks

Cigar box guitars and a cigar box violin.
A box, a neck, some strings, and one wild idea each.

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Meet the three

The Three.

Three labels survive in the vault: Romeo violin, Frankenstein guitar, Bob Marley guitar. The deck has the builds.

The Romeo violin: a cigar box violin with a Romeo y Julieta box, scroll and bow
Romeo. A cigar box violin.
The Frankenstein guitar: a white headstock with a face and a long neck
Frankenstein. The guitar with a face.
The Bob Marley guitar: a decorated box with a round soundhole and a six-string neck
Bob Marley. The decorated box.

The Boxes.

Real cigar boxes. Two sizes in the deck: 8 by 5.5 by 3, and 7.75 by 6.625 by 3.

Four cigar boxes on a dark wood bench
The boxes, before.
Measurement sheet: a 48.75 inch neck blank and box dimensions
The measurements.

The Necks.

Cut from one blank. Guitar necks at 31 and 28.5 inches, the violin shorter, every one shaped by hand.

Three shaped necks laid on the bench with a box lid
Shaped.
Necks with tuners fitted, laid out on the bench
Tuners on.

The Light Show.

The Marley guitar gets an LED matrix in the box, an Adafruit part from the deck. Pattern TBD.

The Marley guitar plan with an LED matrix and a Tesla coil photo

The Specs.

Box, small
8 x 5.5 x 3 in
Box, wide
7.75 x 6.625 x 3 in
Neck blank
48.75 in 1.75 to 2.25 wide
Guitar neck
31 in 1 7/8 wide
Second neck
28.5 in 4.5 in headstock
LED matrix
Adafruit 4745
Builds
3 Romeo, Frankenstein, Marley
Price
TBD
Ships
TBD

Numbers from the deck. No build details beyond the deck exist in the vault.

The Idea.

Marley, MadSci, CBV.

The sheet’s one line. A cigar box guitar for the reggae, a mad-science guitar with a face, and a cigar box violin. One box each, one neck each.

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Only three labels survive in the vault: Romeo violin, Frankenstein guitar, Bob Marley guitar. No build details. This was not in your list; it is in the sheet under aheadinto.fun.

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