Cigar Box Stick Dulcimer

 

Making these instruments is straightforward; the pre-made cigar box simplifies construction, and the neck design featured in the series is both stable and easy to assemble.

The Cigar Box Stick Dulcimer Book is now available, complementing the online series with full-sized plans and maker's notes. You can find it on Amazon globally.

https://mybook.to/cigar-box-stick

11" x 8.5" paperback in full colour.

This book guides you in constructing a Cigar Box Guitar-style stick dulcimer, featuring a one-piece continuous neck and DIY piezo pickups.

with all the notes included, chapter by chapter, focusing on simple luthier tips and techniques. The QR codes in the book help guide you with the making process, as well as linking to new contents and useful older videos. (They are scannable by almost any smartphone, and older ones with a free QR reader app).

Welcome to this ten-part video series on making a cigar box stick dulcimer. These videos will support the notes and plans in the book, available on Amazon.

The video series primarily focus on the making of a traditional cigar box guitar style instrument, one of the easiest places to start for the first time makers, using a real cigar box with a long continuous neck providing strength a and stability, flat paddle headstock 4-strings and a piezo pickup. We will cover the creation, shaping, and fretting of the neck and fitting to the body, the wiring of a piezo pickup, and setting up the instrument. Cigar box stick dulcimers, while a simple instrument to make and play, will give you much enjoyment. Extras and the Book and Download: The two additional plans in the book expand the building options and cover building a soundbox from scratch, using traditional tonewoods rather than a readymade box. Included are both 3 and 4 string design options, which feature bolt-on or dovetailed necks.

The book edition features full-colour photos of the instruments, full maker's notes, and QR codes to connect to the video episodes online. At the back of the book, there is the complete set of plans for all three instrument designs in a multi-page format to cut out and glue or tape together.