Extended Cut: Building a Cigar Box Guitar w/Hand Tools [No Dialogue] - NightHawkInLight 

You know what's funny? It seems like every time you want to show us something important (like the screws or the frame), you're silently yelling "look at this. LOOK AT IT!" while gripping said item. I love it.

ASMR for carpenters.

Play some Breaking Bad themes lol

Should have left the hinged part of the lid openable so it's easy to retrieve your pick when you drop it in the hole..... ;-)

You're pretty good at guitar. You should just upload a video of you playing the cigar box guitar.

I just want to say, I think this video is edited to the perfect length and is very helpful in showing someone how to recreate this build.

you could have easily gotten something to drill that hole instantly. It would save you a ton of work.

Cool build 👍👍 Some very interesting concepts. While it great to have something pre built all fancy, if you look at the heritage of these instruments, the originals were made out of what people could scrounge 😀

I think you have some really inventive ideas that solve a lot of problems when thinking about the construction of something like this, but there are some considerations you might want to think about which though might make it more difficult to construct would improve the sound of the instrument. The sound generates from the soundboard vibrating, which in your case is really just the neck and perhaps part of the cigar box. I'd suggest try making the portion of the neck that runs along the cigar box much thinner. It'll be able to vibrate more easily. The thickness of the neck makes dampens the sound by not allowing for much vibration. If you notice acoustic guitars don't pull the neck all the way to the bridge. They stop at the body for this reason. That of course makes it hard to have a solid bridge which can handle the tension of the strings and not make the instrument collapse on itself. So for guitars they add bracing, which also helps to control the type of sound. Different bracing patterns underneath the soundboard create different effects. Dulcimers on the other hand just place a neck over a soundboard and run the whole way of the instrument. What's different is that they place they neck on top of the soundboard, and don't cut into it. This way the neck isn't the soundboard, and the box is. The idea is to have the neck be carved in arches so that the neck touches the soundboard in as few places as possible. This allows the soundboard to vibrate more freely and produce more sound. You could perhaps not cut away the box top (soundboard), and instead lay a thin neck over, arched in several places so as to touch in very few spots. This might allow for the box to vibrate a lot more than a very thick wooden neck. This will give a much brighter sound less thuddy less dampened. I'd also suggest tilting your headstock, you really do want a good angle where the strings meet the nut. Your design is really interesting. As engineering it's quite brilliant. For quality of sound I'm not sure it works as well as it could though. It's a really inventive way to do it though and impressive using readily available materials. A good angle on that nut going downward should really improve things, and keep notes in tune so they don't vary when the string is being plucked. Just a few thoughts. Not trying to ding your design at all and I think it's really cool. You've got a good mind for engineering things.

Thank god for power tools.

Nice playing. Was the song at the end Johnny Cash's version of Rusty Cage? It was good!

This was like HowToBasic without the eggs

What was the song you where pla ying *at start NightHawkInLight

finally a video to make the speed option of the player usable...

I think the extended video was a splendid idea, it's cool to see how the Raw footage comes together into a completed video!

Great job night hawk I've been watching your vids ever since you started making them I've been such a bug fan of u and grant!! Keep up the good work 👍👍

Not sure why I spent 30 min of my life watching this. Maybe cause it's interesting

That was beautiful to see and hear.

Big fan of Johnny Cash I see.. Same.

Great demonstration on how to make a good sounding cigar box guitar, with frets.

Really nice camera work and work in general! :)

Well worth watching thanks for posting.

but, does is djent?

that is very cool. you put alot of work into it. also nice playing :)

So why carve and not use a saw? Just curious never done this myself.

I really like this kind of video :D

Hello. I have made my guitar and it Sounds pretty good. The only Problem i have is that i dont find any guide on how to play a three stringed guitar Do you have any guide for me,on where i can find songs for starters?

Why don't you use a speed square ?

Idk if I'm missing something here, but why are you making things harder for yourself by doing everything with a chisel rather than sawing off some material? It's faster and the blocks you saw off might be repurposed somewhere rather than ending up with a pile of useless shavings that you need to clean up. The ingenuity with the metal work was amazing tho ❤️

The beginning of the vid makes me think of Left 4 Dead

You're really good on the guitar.

The other version doesnt have a dialogue either, right? Its more like a monologue...

Your like "LOOK AT THIS!!! DO YOU SEE IT?!?!" With everything 😂😂

I heard that Rusty Cage in there at the end. What a finish to a great video!

Excellent video....where can I find a list of the items that you used to make the neck....nails, strings etc. Many Thanks

......so there's a thing called a cigar box guitar. Looks like having only three strings is part of the identity . I was judging that three strings is engineeringly appropriate for the strength of the timber used so that the neck won't warp under strain. Yesterday by chance I came across a video by Robert Murray Smith, eight years old , he makes a tuning head for a ukelaly using aluminum cooling fins and modified wingnut bolts. Its an out of the blue video cos these days his channel is focused on homemade batteries , chemistry , homemade supercapacitors ....

I find it hard to play mine. Of course that could be from the slice out of my arm taken out by the chisel, or when the string twanged off the nail thingy at the bridge end and took out my eye. Of course you don’t need eyes to play CBG but I think that’s why I sliced my other hand on some of the nails(sorry- frets) while attempting to play. Still, “no pain- no gain”.

Obviously the best way to cut a hole.

Bro , yes You have skills in building stuff but don't You think that someone that it's teaching should explain by talking the mames of tools, measurements, and little details and also what can happened if You make a little mistake that could happened while You are making whatever You are doing that i don't know what to ask for at the Warehouse yo Buy what i need to build whatever You are doing. Eres mudo?

How many strings could you get on this? I've seen cigar box ukuleles and even a six stringed model, but it used a premade neck from a Gibson. Would I be right in saying 6 strings would have too much tension for this design, or is it just a case of making a wider neck?

This is quite literally, an extended cut... Because he's cutting wood and stuff... I'll just go away now, that was a horrible pun.

Not sure the cordless qualifys as "hand tool" . but love your vids

This is a great video. I have built a couple myself but I like how you did this. thanks

You think those could be made on the cheap for public schools. The recorder is a terrible instrument!

When do,you think you will release a video for the LED sketch board from your ALS ice bucket challenge video? Please respond.

It's a real pain to see how this man goes to work. You can see he's a simple hobbyist 'cause he doesn't even know how to handle a hammer and he uses tools wich a professional wouldn't even take in their mind to use for that purpose. Even without machinery there's a big number of low budget tools witch are alot more suitable. And gets the job done much sooner.

Aiming the chisel towards you? Doesn't look safe.

this makes it seem like yo have shit for tools, which is difficult to believe. but so far as manual labor goes, I frequently use a hack saw with wood for narrow clean cuts

Rusty Cage- Johnny Cash For anyone wondering what song he is playing at the end. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-EtbuUlSGXzc.html -Song

Looks like Maple or Birch your using for the neck, a Jig Saw would be slower than a chisel, Nice

+NightHawkInLight Do you have absolutely any interest in video games if so what ones.

*im about do a woodwork and its not a guitar IYKWIM.* its a table.. a dining table.

Hey, could you make a video about making stuff from raw carbonfiber, but real carbon not carbon lookalikes.

Boring as all get out but I admire the tool work and I watched the whole thing and will use some of your techniques.

How much money for this Guitar? :)

I would've filed grooves in the door hinge pin to accomidate the strings so they have less chance of coming misalligned

I'm trying to figure out how this works, because how you have it set up the strings are resting directly on the fret nails

Can you just make a video of only you playing this guitar because it's awesome

You build stuff like me. Using the chisel as a straight edge. Using nails as the frets. Using chisels instead of band saws. Hand sanding instead of a sander. I like it. Makes me want to try and build one.

Excellent video! Except for the measurements of the frets. I couldn't understand your numbers for the life of me. That was the one time I wish you had dialog explaining those numbers. I must have looked at that section of your video 10 times.

I'm always surprised when I'm searching completely unrelated projects im working on and i click a video without looking at the person who posted it and its always you. We have a lot in common, my dude haha But you're much better at filming... and remembering to film. 😂 Keep it up, man. You're an inspiration and, at times even a life-saver.

How much would someone need to pay you to make or give me one of those home made guitars? Name your price

Wow! I'm amazed. Is it possible to get a list of materials needed? An actual step by step process? Thanks, Joe. Oregon

Wood type?

NightHawk is what I imagine liam neeson and Elijah woods kid would look like.

Hi! Good demostration so far but why You Say are so so in silence? Can You talk? Because it would be awesome if you explain what the hell are you doing every step and i was asking about that You don't Say some important measurements

Muy bueno! La parte de los trastes lo podrías haber echo con el serrucho más prolijo

Até o superbonder dos cara é melhor que o nosso,,,kkkk

I feel more like its a banjo, judging from the size but also the sound?

Nice job dude i'm Really surpsised of the sound qualities as a guitar player of course ! But i was wondering why you don't "profile " the neck maybe it will be more confortable and do you think a nut on the "headstock " would be fine ? Cause i'm thinking to make a kind of guitar wich will be i hope as easy to play as a normal one ! And again good work !

The thing at the beginning sounds a bit like the theme tune for lizard lick towing

So much wrong with this don't even know where to begin. Clearly just a novelty and not a well made or playing instrument. Very amatuer effort.

Test yourself; build a guitar! I bet you could make a good one.

Well now I'm torn. I liked the narration of the first and I really liked this version. Same video but different! Really great stuff!

NightHawkInLight Great build. The chiselling of the neck looked difficult. There would be no way I could make the guitar. I'm completely useless a building things manually... woodworking in particular. Give me a CNC machine any day 8)

What size door pin is this? The ones Lowes has don't look that thick.

so with this design you could also make a full 6 string guitar? i could understand how the head could get a bit big and clunky if you used the home depot only rule.

Very skilful. I wonder if you could get a small CNC milling machine, knock these out like shelling peas..

Wouldn't mind seeing videos of you just playing...

What was the name of the thing you used to anchor the screws for tuning?

The action looks low because of the nails. I once did that on an old can uke.

Sound hole on top sounds better. I think the tone is amazing.

fantastic work!!!

Doesn't he look like Leo Messi the player on FC Barcelona

Very nice, thanks. Seems like a great project to do with the kids. The way you shape the fret board by chisseling seems unnecessarily laborious to me though. You should be able to remove much of that material a lot faster and more precisely with a saw and use the chisel only to shape the curves.

Hi, I'm a huge fan of your projects. Some of my favorites include creating hydrogen with aluminum and hcl and the pasta rocket engine. I have actually attempted both and was amazed by how well they worked. The design of the apparatus used for making hydrogen is very simple yet effective and so it made me think, would it be possible to use with other chemical reactions? After thinking for a bit I remembered your pasta rocket engines and realized that the hydrogen generator could be used to make large amounts of O2 as well with some small adjustments (like using manganese dioxide from batteries as a catalyst for decomposition instead of yeast). I was hoping you could try this and maybe let me know how it goes. Ps: If you do actually attempt it, it might be fun to use some math and predict the oxygen yield beforehand using the volume and concentration

Sir NightHawk what a great work of art skill work craftsmanship creativity.God bless you for teaching me a new way to make a tuning machine...I love your work and video.

Is it possible you could make a base guitar out of this?

great tutorial! my chocolate box got a new life and sounds cool. went with its friends diddely bow, dustbin bass and washboard 2 month later for first public représentation.. gold inst none of us was playing inst before. great tanks!!

I can't remember if it was started in the original video, but what strings did you use and what did you tune them to?

the audio is off from the video in some parts.

Hey ! Do you think it can be worth it to try to put the last 3 strings of a bass ? Or does the tension won't work ?

I have a hand crank drill from my late grandfather. make this totally authentic with "hand tools" :D Great job though mate!

So I just watched 30minutes of a guy making a Cigar Box guitar, and that was simply amazing :) Thanks for the vids ! Really great work :)

Hello I am French and I experience on the Internet and his shod pleasure that a person comes to see chain, I know that my videos his a little missed but I come hardly of began. Thank you

Why do you make such a long mark when measuring?

Very interesting, I saw you previous video and I was curious about the woodwork in particular. Thanks for showing the details!

Is it me or does this video remind me of all of a How To Basic's videos? It starts off nice and quiet then it gets crazy.

Maybe try marking your lines with a pencil. Ink soaks into the wood and makes it more work sanding later. Keep up the awesome work!

Hard to believe that the only hammer he had was a ball peen