Cigar Box Ukulele Plans

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

Cigar box ukulele plans.

Click the image to view the full size version. Cigar box ukulele plans by charles a. Cigar box ukulele plans by charles a. 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. The uke is well suited to cigar box treatment. Simple cigar box ukulele. I found a cedar box with a plywood base.

King circa 1920 step by step instructions from the early 1900 s including a detailed diagram on building a cigar box ukulele. 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 homemade hawaiian cigar box ukulele popular mechanics june 1917. A little about ukuleles the ukulele was developed in the hawaiian is.

The overall size and volume of a standard ukulele is ap proximately the same as many readily available cigar boxes. How to make a cigar box ukulele. There s lot of other instructables on cigar box instruments but i figured i d show how i built mine. You need time patience and some basic wood work ing tools.