Ok, so I promised a write up about building my second Cigar Box Guitar. I have a feeling it's going to go a bit long so I may have to split it up into a couple of updates. But hey, at least that will give me an excuse to keep updates coming for a bit. So here it goes, a bit of background and then the first steps of building my second cigar box guitar: So first a little background. Back in their first year Make Magazine ran an article on an electric cigar box guitar. It was strung with masons line and used a piezo element for a pickup. I was intrigued. But I can't play guitar and don't have an amp. So it was filed away as something for another day. And sure enough a few issues latter Make ran an article on how to make a cheap amp out of a LM386 audio amplifier chip. It just so happens I have a handfull of LM386's laying around. Back in High School and friend and I bought a bunch to build small amplifiers to go with some experiments we were doing with [...]