Awesome Auction

Mostly tools and a box of books with a special surprise!

Battery charger $6 (shopping for one anyway); box of tools with hand driver, tape measure, linemens, hammer, etc. $5; bar clamp $5 (could have been a jerk and gotten it for free since it was a choice times two); box of books with Images of Delaware, books on painting, guitar, cooking, astronomy, and a hidden black book Mated: The New Pictorial Marital Manual from 1968. Good thing the Relics are married (wiggles eyebrows).

Cigar Box Guitar

This White Owl cigar box was hiding on a high shelf at one of our favorite shops. Mr. Relic has an increasingly sever addiction to stringed instruments and had decided to try to convert a beloved cigar box of his Gramp's in to a cigar box guitar. Mrs. Relic spotted this box and they decided it was better to do a test run on a less sentimental piece before cutting holes into Gramp's.

Mr. Relic carved the neck and headstock out of oak. The saddle is a part of a door hinge and the sound holes were new grommets that were "aged" with heat and linseed oil. Two pietzos inside make it electric.

[acq. 4/8/12 - $8, guitar completed 5/8/12]