Cigar Box Ukulele Plans

This was the first ukulele i built hopefully it can help inspire you to bulid one.

Cigar box ukulele plans.

Cigar box ukulele plans by charles a. King circa 1920 step by step instructions from the early 1900 s including a detailed diagram on building a cigar box ukulele. Click the image to view the full size version. 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 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. A little about ukuleles the ukulele was developed in the hawaiian is. I found a cedar box with a plywood base. How to make a cigar box ukulele.

If you have a choice find one of solid wood. The overall size and volume of a standard ukulele is ap proximately the same as many readily available cigar boxes. The uke is well suited to cigar box treatment. Cigar box ukulele plans by charles a.

A homemade hawaiian cigar box ukulele popular mechanics june 1917. There s lot of other instructables on cigar box instruments but i figured i d show how i built mine. Making a cigar box ukulele is not terribly difficult. 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.