Unusual guitar build teaser

I've had a few shop clients ask me in recent times about cigar box guitars. They've apparently grown in popularity in recent years for what I'd guess is the novelty, the easier learning curve and/or the potential low cost to acquire one.

I've never worked on one, I've never even played one. So I figured I get experience with them by building one from scratch.

Since I don't know the first thing about cigar box guitars, I went about it my way with what I know about "real" guitars and what I like guitars to be able to do in general.

I threw together some parts from my regular luthiery and repair suppliers and from a large CBG supplier I found online.

And from the local military surplus.

Here's the teasers ... video demo coming later this week. You really got to see and hear it in action to appreciate it. I'm actually kinda proud of it.

And I can tell you now, that's a potted 8.8K alnico "real" humbucker. This ain't geared for just open-tuning sharecropper porch blues.