Biscuit Box Guitar

No lap steel this time, but a 'normal' guitar with its frets. The photos give an rough idea of what the building process was. The audio was recorded by Francis Jurdan at his studio in Liège. We did just one take of me playing this guitar. Hope you like it!!!

The purpose of this guitar design is to organise workshops where the participants would build such a guitar out of a tin box and a few items from the local DIY shop. So the aim is to keep the costs at a minimum and so the difficulty (they should manage to build it in a few hours).

More info at:
http://deferreneris.blogspot.com/

Category:

Music

Tags:

• biscuit
• box
• guitar
• fingerpicking
• bottleneck

[fungus0roxanne]

Just wanted you to know, you were a major inspiration in the oil can guitar I just finished. Thanks for posting!

[deferre]

@fungus0roxanne I'm glad to hear that! :-)

[homegrownguitars]

Wow! I've been making guitars, including biscuit tin guitars for years. and this has to be far and away the best sounding tin guitar I've ever heard. Brilliant playing too. Thanks!

[deferre]

Well, thanks a lot!!! :-)

[dancingwiththefire]

That is a amazing guitar!!!!!! Makes me hungry for a cookie though! :) Awesome job with it. One day I hope to build a banjo but probably not any time soon as tins and such are hard to find around here. Take care and awesome job!!!!!!

[deferre]

Thanks!!!

And don't forget to post something about that banjo. ;-)

[johnnysbasement]

yep

[vangion]

Yes12th fret is center p[point

The length from the nut to the 12th should be half the string length,which would make the distance from 12th to bridge equal to the distance between nut and 12th

[starkneked]

That's very true on all stringed instruments! That just gets you in the ball park.

[dbfkjmatt]

is it true tht the length between the nut and the 12th fret should be equal to the 12th fret to the bridge?otherwise it wont sound right?please answer someone!:)