Cigar Box Guitar, "Arturo Fuente" Box - 3 Strings #253

Description

This is a handcrafted instrument built by me at Schmied Guitars. This one is a 3 string Cigar Box Guitar. It plays very nice, the fret board is very comfortable, has low action makes it easy to play . This is an electric guitar that can be amplified. It has a single coil magnetic pickup with volume and tone controls (knobs), you can plug it into a guitar amp with a standard guitar cable.
Guitar details:
Overall length: 32 Inches
Body: I used a "Arturo Fuente" box, the box size is 9.5 x 7.5 x 2.5 inches deep.
Neck and fingerboard: The neck is made from oak and fingerboard is made from a walnut piece of wood. This wood is dense and it gives the guitar great tone and sustain. It has inlaid side dot markets, and poplar inlaid fret markers. It has different wood lamination in the heel and the headstock. The banding is burned into the wood and is finished with several coats of lacquer.
Strings: I used electric medium gauge strings.
String gauges: 36w, 26w, 17p
Bridge: I handmade this bridge using purpleheart wood and corian. It has great looks and gives the guitar good sound and resonance.
Tuning: This one is tuned to Open G (GDg), With these same strings you can tune it up to Open A or change the strings and get the tuning you want.
Scale: I used a 24 ½ inches scale from nut to bridge
Frets: medium sized frets, It has 18 frets, no buzzing and excellent playability. the action is low enough to play finger-style up and down the neck. It can also be played with a slide (see my bottleneck and copper slides)