The Rocky Patel Experiment

Rocky Patel smokes happen to be my favorite cigar. I don't think I've ever had a bad RP, so I thought it very fitting to make my first CBG out of a RP box.
As you can see in the photos, this is a robustos box of RP Vintage 92 (my all time fav tied with the fusion which can be bought at Cigars International - free plug guys). The neck is made from a 1x3 piece of popular which was cut 3.5 ft long. I rounded the back of the neck with my router and embedded the "nut" in its own grove. The nut was made from a "toothy" bolt I cut with my dremel. I chose a bolt that had big threads so the strings would hold nicely in their place.
The neck is attached to the top of the box and I sealed the box shut with a small screw. The box did not have a latch and I was having a hard time finding a good spot to hold one and it dawned on me that it would be a whole lot easier to just screw the man thing shut.
The headstock was a lot trickier. Since most cbg's have a headstock which is the same size as the neck, it was a bit tricky trying to get the strings not to line up on top of each other. I used some household type items to make it work. I thought it added some unique charm to the project. Notice the picture hanger holding down the strings. As for the other end of the neck, I simply drilled four whole evenly spaced and cut 4 brass barrels so the string ends wouldn't dig into the wood eventually making it hard to tune. The neck is fretless but I painted fret lines so you know where you're playing. I also too RP cigar bands and carefully removed the RP logos from them and used them as neck markers. I finished the whole thing with 4 coats of clearkote for protection.
Lastly, it's electric. I placed a piezio pick up inside the cavity and it works pretty well. it will feedback if yu get too close to the amp, much like a hollow body guitar.
This model is currently tuned to an E chord. When playing with a slide, you simply move into a different position and you're playing a new chord. These things rock.