I've made a new CBG tutorial video, this time a fretted version. Check it out here: • How To Make A Fretted Cigar Box Guitar Total build (not including glue dry time) took about 3 hours for this ...

John Park from Make builds his cigar box guitar by plotting and then drilling holes for the strings and tuning pegs. He then adds two scrap pieces of wood trim to create a nut and a bridge to hold ...

Three strings, three chords, and a box of junk. Toss in a little ingenuity, and you have everything you need for a back porch summertime blues session. The art of making guitars from cigar boxes dates ...

La Rue has been making cigar box guitars out of his home workshop since the middle of 2015, he said. While not a professional musician, he’s played instruments like the guitar and banjo and bass.

I look for thimbles, beer caps, and bullet shells for the instruments' knobs, bolts for nuts and bridges, holding onto the original idea of making the cigar box instrument with what you got, like ...

If you goWhat: “Cigar Box Guitar” When: Exhibit runs through July 6 Where: Bricolage Gallery at Art Parts Creative Reuse Center, 2870 Bluff St., Boulder Cost: Free More info: artpartsbo… ...

These unusual guitars began as early as 1863 — a Civil War photo of a man in Pennsylvania shows him holding such a cigar box guitar, Roudebush said.

It begins as just a cigar box and a five-quarter stick of maple. With 12 hours work, four strings and skilled fingers, it's music.

Because a cigar-box guitar is played with a slide and has only three strings, learning to play it can be a challenge. That can be fun for new players as well as those who feel their skills have ...

Cigar box guitars can, in the right hands, make sophisticated music. Players ranging from Bo Diddley and Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top to Joe Bonamassa and Paul McCartney have performed onstage with them.