Two latest cigar boxes. A tenor guitar and a 2 string fretless cigarbox guitar with a magnetic pickup

The two latest instruments from ShonKy are this 4 string tenor guitar

The box was found at a carboot sale by a friend who thought I would like it. It's fairly modern by my usual standards but as soon as I saw it I saw it had to be a tenor guitar.

I tried out a new tailpiece design on it which works a treat and looks really nice and is reasonably easy to make.

Other firsts on this one are a radiused fingerboard and stainless steel frets. to be fair you don't really notice the radius on a small fingerboard like this but the fret wire comes pre radiused! 

I also decided on the addition of a forearm rest to protect the arm from the fairly sharp edge and to bring the hand forward a bit as the bridge is fairly high.

It's been snapped up by a buyer in the Netherlands.

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The second one which at the time of writing is still available is this very diminutive 2 string.

It has a very small mahogany wills whiffs box sapele neck with a lovely smooth and flat Afromosia Board. Volume control with one of my 12 bore control knobs. The string ferrules are made from the primers in the cartridges. The pickup is 1 half of a modified pbass pickup. the plastic cut down rounded off and a wooden top added. The strings pass between the poles and it is height adjustable. Anyway it rocks. I'm tempted to make my first demo video featuring this one as it is pretty impressive how it sounds.