They’ve created a 10 part YouTube series about the construction of their new cigar box guitar. Instead of a cigar box though, they’ve substituted a 1920’s tin cigarette box.

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 ...

From this, he made a guitar. Cigar box guitars, or CBGs, are not necessarily made from cigar boxes. Steve Richard made one with an oar and an empty baked bean can. “I eat beans anyway ...

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 ...

Presently, the guitars are made one at a time – as the size and depth of individual cigar boxes would make it difficult to make guitar necks in volume. Some cigar boxes, for example, can be made ...

Reverend Peyton recently added a three-string cigar box guitar to his stage collection. The earliest recorded mention of cigar box guitars and banjos date back to the late 1800s.

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.

Fuller said his cigar box guitars are as popular as instruments as they are pieces of folk art. "It's something you can just hang on your wall and it just looks cool.

By 15, he had built his first kitchen. These days, the 77-year-old is retired from a long and varied career using his hands and has spent the past eight years making custom cigar box guitars.

From 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. all three days, the South Lake Tahoe resident will demonstrate how to build cigar-box guitars and banjos.

That is, if you live in Fulton County. Here’s why. The Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System has recently made cigar box guitars available for checkout at 10 branches.