The "Big Easy" Cigar Box Guitar Kit - Easy to assemble in 1 hour or less!

Description

It was back in the 1890’s when a group of New Orleans street urchins cobbled together cigar box guitars, wine box basses, kazoos and other instruments to form the Razzy Dazzy Spasm Band.
Lead by “Stale Bread” Lacomb, this fierce act performed on the streets all over the
Big Easy
, playing rau-cous music unheard of before. Professional musicians not only adopted their wild style to create jazz music, but some even stole the band’s name at one point!
The Big Easy Cigar Box Guitar is a kit dedicated to the earliest DIY instrument builders in America’s rich music history. It’s a big easy kit to build that will propel your playing back to the days of the Big Easy.
Laisses les bons temps rouler...Let the good times roll!
The Big Easy Cigar Box Guitar Kit is exactly that: It’s a full-size cigar box guitar kit that is easy enough to build on your kitchen table with a single screwdriver.
This kit contains all of the parts you need to complete your cigar box guitar
the box
neck
hardware
strings
guitar slide
full instruction book with
How to Play the Blues
lessons!
Everything is pre-drilled and pre-marked, so that all you have to do is put in the screws, tap in the string ferrules, string it up and start playing.
It really is that easy!
The Big Easy is available fully-fretted or unfretted for slide play
For the unfretted version
we have pre-marked the hardwood neck with drawn fret lines to a 25-inch scale.
We have also pre-notched the neck for the threaded rod nut, as well as the location of the special "Flying bridge".
The fully fretted-neck version
is also built to a 25-inch scale and uses a zero-fret nut for superior playability, especially for fingers that have never before played a guitar.
This kit builds the traditional "stick on top" cigar box guitar in the style of mountain dulcimers, where the neck rests on top of the box instead of running through it.
The result is a nice, loud CBG tuned with the popular "Open G" tuning of G D G, which is what most of the Youtube how-to-play video presenters use.
Kit contents include:
One hardwood neck, pre-drilled , marked and prepped with all the necessary holes. The neck included with the fretted kit version has a 1/4-inch fretboard pre-mounted to the top of the neck.
One cigar box drilled with mounting holes and sound holes. Please note: box style may vary slightly from these pictures, but assembly steps will be the same.
Three open-gear tuners
Three tuner bushings
Six #1 x 5/16-inch Phillips-head tuner mounting screws
Six brass eyelet string ferrules
Two 3/4-inch washer-head lath screws for box mounting
One "Flying Bridge" cigar box guitar bridge
Four #6 x 1/2-inch brass Phillips-head string retainer screws (unfretted kit version only)
One 1 1/2-inch threaded rod cigar box guitar nut (unfretted kit version only)
Three guitar strings based on our Blues Blaster guitar string set.