How to make a cardboard guitar with your own hands?

For a lover of rock music or instruments, mentioning this topic is a great pleasure. His room is hung with posters with musicians. A guitar, piano or button accordion firmly takes its place in furniture or decorate the walls.

Nice little thing

A musical instrument made from improvised materials is not so much a practical item as a decorative one. If you make a guitar out of cardboard, like a real one, big and with strings, you might even be able to play it.

Small cardboard tools are used as souvenirs, for home decoration and as original presentations. A small cardboard guitar, made with love and decorated with cool inscriptions, will undoubtedly delight a friend on his birthday.

How to make a cardboard guitar with your own hands, and what do you need? We will consider this issue in more detail, because, for sure, everyone has a person who will be pleased with such a gift.

Joy of the Troubadour

A cardboard guitar can be of different sizes: large, almost like a real one, and miniature. Making a cardboard guitar like a small, genuine original is not so difficult. We will be patient, with the necessary objects and will create a musical instrument on our own, on which the famous Troubadour played.

How to make a cardboard guitar

Before work, it is necessary to prepare materials and tools. It’s good if the master will have the desired sample, for example, a picture or photograph of a guitar.

First you need to collect what you need:

• strong cardboard;
• hot glue;
• PVA glue;
• small nails;
• fishing line;
• ruler, pencil;
• stationery knife;
• finishing putty, wood putty;
• varnish;
• spray paint;
• sandpaper;
• old guitar string.

Now the process of creating a small masterpiece:

1. Find a suitable image of a guitar, print it and cut it out. Transfer the template to a thick cardboard.
2. To process edges of the cut-out guitar with an emery paper. Cut the second part and also process with sandpaper. Then fold the parts together and grind them again.
3. Measure the side inserts and cut strips of cardboard of the required size. Glue parts with hot glue. Glue stiffeners inside the guitar to help keep the body strong.
4. Glue the upper deck to the lower deck. Cut off dried glue with a knife. Walk again with sandpaper.
5. Cover the body of the guitar with PVA. Dry and apply putty previously diluted with PVA, in 2-3 layers. After each drying, prime with glue diluted with water in a ratio of 1: 1.
6. After drying, go through the workpiece with sandpaper. Apply putty on wood. Walk again with sandpaper. After this procedure, the surface of the guitar will be very smooth and even.
7. To make the neck, we cut out three cardboard parts according to the template. We glue all the parts of the PVA. Using a familiar system, we process the bar with finishing putty, primer and putty on wood.
8. Using the same principle, we make a stand for strings.
9. Using hot glue we collect all parts of the guitar.
10. Paint the tool in the desired color, apply varnish.
11. From a guitar string or fishing line, we cut out small strings under a micro-guitar and attach them.

As it turned out, making a rock guitar out of cardboard is not so difficult.

A simple way to make a tool

Boys love to play rock musicians. You can make a toy instrument for a little guitar player in a matter of minutes. You will need:

• cardboard;
• scissors;
• stationery knife;
• pencil;
• fishing line or thread;
• ice cream stick;
• hot glue.

We proceed to the manufacture of:

1. We cut out the details of the whole guitar from cardboard according to the template.
2. We glue all the parts together. We process uneven edges with a clerical knife.
3. Cut a circle in the drum of a cardboard tool. Glue the ice cream stick as a stand for the strings. Under it we cut or drill holes for future artificial strings.
4. If desired, the guitar can be painted in any color, varnished or glue PVA.
5. After drying, thread strings made from fishing line or elastic.

The guitar for the young musician is ready!