Bizarre Guitars by Spike Jacobs

Bizarre Guitars by Spike Jacobs unusual guitars, cigar box guitars, lunch box guitars, miniature basses, lunch box banjos, mandolins, ukuleles, home made guitars, home made basses

Bizarre Guitars by Spike is my way of combining my passions for art, music, and carpentry. My goal is to make original stringed instruments that make great wall hangers as art, but are also fully functional and have great playability

03/22/2019
09/23/2018

A little 'Happy Guy Blues' (original composition) on a Sunday morning in a shed near Farmington, Maine

This is  #28 (I think), 'The Wizard'. It is an Ashton cigar box mated to an Epiphone neck. Finished Feb. 2018, but it's ...
09/18/2018

This is #28 (I think), 'The Wizard'. It is an Ashton cigar box mated to an Epiphone neck. Finished Feb. 2018, but it's been my travel guitar since I first pieced it together Oct '17

Haven't posted anything in close to a year, so I just thought I'd put this Skateboard / 2 x 4 double neck out there...
03/01/2017

Haven't posted anything in close to a year, so I just thought I'd put this Skateboard / 2 x 4 double neck out there...

06/25/2016
Kinda a 'Diamond in the Rough'. I started out making this for a friend, and ended up putting it on hold several times du...
05/01/2016

Kinda a 'Diamond in the Rough'. I started out making this for a friend, and ended up putting it on hold several times due to setbacks. I ended up keeping it as I don't feel it's up to par for public consumption- but even w/ it's technical diffulties (squarish neck, for instance), I still get a kick out of playing it once in a while :)

04/17/2016

It goes to 15.... No, really! See photos in album titled #26

04/17/2016
Finished this last October but will need a new bridge. Has LED's that change colors and 2 x pickups; 1/2a P-Bass pickup ...
04/17/2016

Finished this last October but will need a new bridge. Has LED's that change colors and 2 x pickups; 1/2a P-Bass pickup on top and a pezio mounted in the Danish cookie tin (resonator) under the bridge

This is a 500K ohm resister identicle to the one used for the volume pot, bought at Radio Shack for $3 - $4. It required...
04/17/2016

This is a 500K ohm resister identicle to the one used for the volume pot, bought at Radio Shack for $3 - $4. It required a wafer board for wiring as shown. Where most potentiometers ('pots') used on guitars just adjust up or down, this has 15 distinct settings from lowest to highest resistance. Therefore, as most guitars go to 10, and Spinal Taps go to 11, this goes to 15 :) . It also has a pushbutton function I used to include or remove the Tone knob from the circuit (SPDT)

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