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 ...

To build our own cigar box guitar, SLM sought the expertise of Gary Herget, co-founder of the St. Louis Cigar Box Festival, held this year on June 3 at Highway 61 Roadhouse and Kitchen in Webster ...

If you want to make a very basic guitar you can do so with a piece of 1x2-inch oak, string, a few hardware odds and ends, and a cigar box.Cigar box gu ...

Tonight, Ben Gitty Baker runs a thriving business in Rochester building cigar box guitars and kits. He shows Karen Meyers how it all works. Plus, it started with his grandmother's recipes for jams ...

In this video I show how to make a simple electric percussion instrument called a stomp box and how to install a piezoelectric transducer as an audio pickup. Thanks to my sponsor for this video ...

I have been building cigar box guitars with my father, Andrew, for about two years. When I was in fourth grade, I watched a tutorial on how to build a cigar box guitar. It consists of an empty ...

Mike Snowden plays bluesy rock as a one-man band. But he’s not playing a Gibson Les Paul or a Fender Stratocaster – his music comes from a guitar he built from an empty cigar box. “If I met ...

Larry McPheeters will share a part of American history as an artist in residence Friday, Saturday and Sunday in the Valhalla Twin Cabins at the Tallac Historic site.From 10 ...

Building cigar box guitars was not enough to quench his thirst for them, so he pried into their convoluted history. ... “When I made my first cigar box guitar,” he said, ...

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.

If you go What: “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: artpartsboulder ...