A simple 3 string fretless cigarbox guitar, made by ChickenboneJohn

Here's a very simple fretless cigar box guitar -3 strings, short scale (22 3/4 inch with a single coil electric pickup.

There's no need for the action to be high, if properly made these guitars can be played with fingers in a conventional way and with a slide.

We generally prefer to put a magnetic pickup in our guitars rather than a passive piezo, as they are so much more useable and predictable when plugged into an amp.

The neck has a round-over profile rather than a fully hand carved profile, and the fret markers are 1920s style with a printed Kraft paper strip glued onto the neck and lacquered, all pretty much as simple as you can get, and true to the "stick in a box" idea.

https://www.chickenbonejohn.com