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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 12
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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 12

by Mark Frauenfelder
November 2007
Beginner content levelBeginner
190 pages
8h 3m
English
Make: Community
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1+2+3 Boing Box

By Mark Frauenfelder

Build a fun, one-stringed instrument that packs a mighty twang.

You will need: A cigar box, 6′ length of ½"×¾" wood, 8′ of 20-gauge wire, 2 eye screws, wood screws, L-bracket, scraps of wood, drill, saw, screwdriver

A 1951 book called Radio and Television Sound Effects, by Robert B. Turnbull, shows how to make a “boing box.” (It’s reprinted at bizarrelabs.com/boing2.htm.) I made a modified boing box using a wooden cigar box and some scraps I had around the house.

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Photography by Mark Frauenfelder

1. Drill resonator holes in the cigar box as shown. Screw an L-bracket to the neck, then screw the neck to the cigar ...

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