The Ashton VSG CBG

So I had already finished my first CBG and was ready to tackle another. Making these things are a great distraction from all the other BS that is bogging down my life. For an hour a day and a few hours over the course of a weekend I can lose my stress thru the making of something fun.
My mother, for some reason I'm still unsure of, had a collection of cigar boxes in her home collecting dust. After seeing what I did with the first one, she offered them to me since she was only going to toss them. I was more than happy to take them. Out of the bunch was one that caught my eye. It was an Ashton VSG box that had an odd shape (I'm also a big fan of the VSG. a Great smoke). Right around this time I was also thinking about what I could do to the neck that would look different. Then it came to me as I was flipping thru the channels. I saw "Kill Bill" was on and I immediately thought of the samurai sword. I began thinking the whole thing thru and wanted to incorporate a dragon as well. I initially wanted to carve the box with holes that would look like the dragon but realized as I cut the first one, that this would make the box too unstable, especially since I like to connect the neck to the lid.
After cutting the head out, I painted the rest of the lid. I gave it a few coats of clearkote and moved on to the neck. As before, I routed the neck making it round in the back and removing all the proper areas so it mount on the lid. I left the neck top a rectangular shape so it would look like the handle of the sword and cut the bottom to look like the edge of the blade. I painted the neck with a chrome paint and hand painted white lines to represent fret spaces. I also painted the headstock to look like the leather wrap of a samurai sword. I was going to put actual leather around it, but it would have been too difficult to get the tuners to sit properly. Maybe next time.
As before, I installed a piezo in the body making it electric. This model is also 4 strings and is tuned to an A chord.
My next step? Building a cigar box amp. Construction has already begun and I have come to the realization, I have bit off more than I can chew. More to come...