Beginner Cigar Box Guitar

Step 4 Cut The Sound Holes

A sound hole can be any shape you fancy. You can buy a round attachment for a drill in various diameters and simply drill a big round hole in the center of your cigar box. Or, you could just drill random holes in whatever pattern you choose.

I decided to attempt to make the same, superfly, violin-style f-holes that Discontinuuity used.

1. Draw the f-holes onto your cigar box lid. I freestyled it, so my f-holes ended up looking...well...hand-drawn and sloppy.
2. Use a utility knife to score your cigar box lid along the shapes you've drawn.
3. I intended to use my dremel tool with a cutting wheel to carve out the shapes, but I have a cheap cordless dremel, and the battery died. So, I kept working with the utility knife to create rough cuts of the shapes.