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Kingborough Art Prize 2014 Winner

Imagine my surprise and delight at being awarded as the winner of the Design Category at the Kingborough Art Prize 2014! I built two box guitars as my entries. The first one is called the “Sassy Californian Three Stringer”. 3 Strings. Tuning DAd. Sassafras sides, Californian Redwood back and top and Huon Pine edging. Single…

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Olivia’s Box Bukey

Olivia’s Box Bukey was designed to look rustic. It certainly fits the idea. Olivia stained it a deepish brown and then burnt around the edges, left nail heads showing and burnt around them too. I had some rough sawn, undressed blackwood that we fitted as the fret board. We used epoxy resin to fill this…

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Katie’s Box Bukey

This is a very nice Box Bukey. Hot pink checker board design with hot pink fur back. Katie is a leftie, so this Bukey is strung up to suit, with Savarez plastic wound strings. Tuned to DGBE.  

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Ben’s Box Bukey

Ben had great fun making his Box Bukey. He did most of it, with a helping hand when needed. We watched a video on Youtube which showed the paint swirling effect. After a few messy attempts and experimentation, we nailed it and produced this cool design. Ben also wanted some fur for the back. We…

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New designs

Wow, these have been a hectic few months. I have been busy building a lot of Bukey’s. Together with my two sons, (8 and 10) and nieces (10,13,14) we made 4 Box Bukeys. This started as a nice family workshop. But we got word of a Salvaged Art Competition running in the local area and…

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Beginnings of the Bukey

I finish playing my instrument, and as I look at it I notice the minor flaws. It has some paint missing, it is an odd shape, and if it is meant to be a guitar, it seems to have a couple of strings missing. But it is mine. I made it with my own hands,…

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