P-Bass Cigar Box Guitar: Building and Playing Made Easy
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This is my second Cigar Box.
I call it P-Bass Cigar Box Guitar.
The First One was made few years ago. And all this time I was hoping to find some time for another better version.
This time I wanted to get real fat and nasty sound from it. So I decided to try the bass pickups. I even reproduced the electrical circuit of the Precision Bass. Well, with “Made in China” parts of course. 🙂 And I have to admit: the sound is really fat. But not as “nasty” as it was expected.
No problem. I just need to play with distortion effects and it will work sooner or later.
It was an interesting and long journey of building my second Cigar Box guitar. Full of challenges and problem-solving. A lot of learning.
And at the end, I should say I’m almost satisfied with the result; like 90%.
I plan to publish the detailed report on “P-Bass Cigar Box Guitar” page in CBG category. Hopefully sooner than later.:)
So stay tuned.
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That is really a cool sound. Well done, I really like it.
What is the tuning on the strings ?
All of the best, from
Cape Town, South Africa
Thanks.
And sorry for the delay.
It’s DADF#. You may picture it as 4 upper strings of the Open D tuning.
Great sound. Out of the six strings in a pack of six, which ones did you use?
Hi.
Thank you for the comment.
At the video I used the 4 thickest (3rd to 6th) strings of the regular D’Addario.
Because the whole Idea of using the P-Bass pickups was to get some sort of roaring sound.
Lately I gave it to professional musician to try.
To his taste it sounded too “bassy”.
So now I’ve put the 4 thinnest , i.e. 1st to 4th.
Very cool, Thanks for the quick reply. I like the bassy sound. That what I am going for in my next build.
Hi ..Nice looking guitar that .
I used ONE p – bass pickup on my build , but even after extensive earthing , it sends out a muffled hissing tail sound inbetween strums while playing .
Any suggestions , friend .
Rád bych koupil cigar box, jak pokračovat v nákupu
.děkuji za odpověď. Ivan
I don’t know how it might work in the Czech Republic, in Canada we have tobacco stores. They have plenty of boxes. And they would give it away for free.