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Cigar Box Guitar Practice Amp FS
Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2020 9:23 pm
by kayt00
Re: Cigar Box Guitar Practice Amp FS $35
Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2020 9:24 pm
by kayt00
kayt00 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 16, 2020 9:23 pm
Started building little 9v cigar box practice amps. I've got two built right now one that's strictly running on a 9v battery and another that'll run on a battery as well as a 9v power supply (same as you'd use for a guitar pedal). They are both super basic and rely on the instrument for volume control. Hit me up if there's any interest.
Re: Cigar Box Guitar Practice Amp FS
Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2020 10:26 pm
by Syntyr
Super nice! I have a small wood amp I built. Next I am using 50 cal ammo can to build one for my bass.
Re: Cigar Box Guitar Practice Amp FS
Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2020 10:50 pm
by kayt00
Syntyr wrote: ↑Wed Dec 16, 2020 10:26 pm
Super nice! I have a small wood amp I built. Next I am using 50 cal ammo can to build one for my bass.
Thanks.
I ran my bass, a schecter, through the El Jefe. Wasn't half bad and worked pretty decent.
What did you use to build yours?
Re: Cigar Box Guitar Practice Amp FS
Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2020 11:52 pm
by Syntyr
kayt00 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 16, 2020 10:50 pm
Syntyr wrote: ↑Wed Dec 16, 2020 10:26 pm
Super nice! I have a small wood amp I built. Next I am using 50 cal ammo can to build one for my bass.
Thanks.
I ran my bass, a schecter, through the El Jefe. Wasn't half bad and worked pretty decent.
What did you use to build yours?
Just a little wood box i found. Breadboarded a simple distortion circuit powered by a 9v battery. A small 2 inch speaker. Works fairly decently. Now I ha e a 50 cal ammo can that I cut two speaker holes in and now working on the electronics for a bass amp.
My current obsession/project is I am trying to figure out how to construct a travel guitar where the fretboard is composed of hollow sections that can retract into the body of the guitar in order to travel. I have a tension bar mechanism prototypesd for the strings. Just trying to figure out the guitar neck.
Don't judge my soldering skills...
Re: Cigar Box Guitar Practice Amp FS
Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2020 7:10 am
by kayt00
I like that enclosure. The guitar neck thing...uh...that's an ambitious project for sure and I wish you the best of luck on that one. When you pull that off it should be pretty sweet.
Re: Cigar Box Guitar Practice Amp FS
Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2020 7:25 am
by RoyGBiv
Price?
Pretty nifty. I've got a kid that might like one.
I bet his roommate would buy it for him.
Re: Cigar Box Guitar Practice Amp FS
Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2020 7:29 am
by kayt00
RoyGBiv wrote: ↑Thu Dec 17, 2020 7:25 am
Price?
Pretty nifty. I've got a kid that might like one.
I bet his roommate would buy it for him.
Whoops, I thought I posted it. Anyway $35 each.
Re: Cigar Box Guitar Practice Amp FS
Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2020 8:48 am
by kayt00
Syntyr wrote: ↑Wed Dec 16, 2020 11:52 pm
kayt00 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 16, 2020 10:50 pm
Syntyr wrote: ↑Wed Dec 16, 2020 10:26 pm
Super nice! I have a small wood amp I built. Next I am using 50 cal ammo can to build one for my bass.
Thanks.
I ran my bass, a schecter, through the El Jefe. Wasn't half bad and worked pretty decent.
What did you use to build yours?
Just a little wood box i found. Breadboarded a simple distortion circuit powered by a 9v battery. A small 2 inch speaker. Works fairly decently. Now I ha e a 50 cal ammo can that I cut two speaker holes in and now working on the electronics for a bass amp.
My current obsession/project is I am trying to figure out how to construct a travel guitar where the fretboard is composed of hollow sections that can retract into the body of the guitar in order to travel. I have a tension bar mechanism prototypesd for the strings. Just trying to figure out the guitar neck.
Don't judge my soldering skills...
This is how my first one turned out using parts from an old 70's or 80's Realistic alarm clock radio that I picked up from the Salvation Army. The Board I put together using some of those parts. The enclosure is the box from a Sprint wifi hotspot.
Re: Cigar Box Guitar Practice Amp FS
Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2020 8:53 am
by Grayling813
Nice. Would be interested except I no longer have any electric guitars and my Taylor is acoustic only.
Re: Cigar Box Guitar Practice Amp FS
Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2020 9:47 am
by kayt00
Grayling813 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 17, 2020 8:53 am
Nice. Would be interested except I no longer have any electric guitars and my Taylor is acoustic only.
Throw a piezo pickup in the Taylor.
