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[DUY1337GUITAR]

So I found this lovely blog on this guy's homemade acoustic guitar build:
http://acousticguitarbuild.blogspot.com/

And then I found a retired luthier building an acoustic from 2000 popsicle sticks:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR6BNjfZavw

And then all of a sudden, out of summer boredom, I got this crazy idea of building an acoustic guitar out of cardboard. I'm probably not the first, but I never saw it on the vast internets yet.

I started about 2 weeks ago with a lot of doubt, but now I'm halfway and it's looking pretty good. I'm not going to post a video with all the photos I have until I'm finished, but I'll show you guys the main ones. I really hope this will turn out successful O_o






























Don't be deceived, that thing holds up pretty well. I'm hopefully working on it more today, and I'll post more pics later.
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[86runner]

This is fantastic. Can't wait to see this thing come together.
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[bildo]

You know you will have to make one of those cardboard cases

I like where this is going.

[DUY1337GUITAR]

[chuckergtrs]

Fantastic! What are your plans for the neck?

Chucker
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[ghobii]

I think it's gonna sound boxie
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[DUY1337GUITAR]

haha, I bet it would sound boxy, but if this works out well, I might as well try to go all out with wood some other day (home depot wood )

For the neck, I'm using 3 dowels and gluing flat wood on top for the fretboard. You see the bigger dowel in the pic above. I wish I gone with a rectangular piece, but oh well, too late. I'll just go with what I have.

The fun part was making the sides of the body. Now I'm gonna have a pain working on the headstock tomorrow =.=
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[aquietcabin]

right on
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[DUY1337GUITAR]

I did a lot of cutting and made the headstock and bridge. I got photos but it's past midnight already so I gotta go to bed. Was just chatting with my friend on Facebook and scared her with a creepy sketch of my friend's dream (he just happens to be an artist, and that sketch was kinda disturbing).

If I remember, I'll try posting pics before I leave to take the bus to the mall with my friends and sprint down to Guitar Center for nylon strings at noon (music shops are worth sprinting for )

The headstock is humongous, by the way, I hope it will work properly
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[DUY1337GUITAR]

ughhh, walked about 4 miles total today to the bus stop to get to the mall and Guitar Center with my buddies. Spent $8.99 on nylon strings... I hope it will be worth it.

Anyways, photos

Headstock is huge, like I said


Bridge and nut


Attaching the headstock


Gluing the dowels together to form the base of the neck


If I'm able to, I'll post more pics tonight. Otherwise, I'll see you guys after my long-awaited vacation :3
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[Joe Desperado]

There is a very famous cardboard classical guitar built in the 1800s. One of the members of the Official Luthiers forum made a clone of it and it turned out awesome and sounds great. I am pretty sure the neck, neck block and tail block were wood as were the braces. But the rest was all cardboard.

Do a search on the OLF
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[Vince]

Did they have cardboard in the 1800's?
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