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 guitars have been a growing trend in maker ...

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.

Etc: Opening reception 5:30-8:30 p.m. May 25 ... But he’s made some four-string cigar box guitars and his own personal slide guitar from a generic pinewood box with a brass resonator.

01-Shane-Speal-King-of-the-Cigar-Box-Guitar-Demo-01-Shane-Speal-I-Dont-Live-Today “Hobo blues” musician and three-string cigar-box instrument player Pinecone Fletcher became one of the grand f ...

He makes frets from sixpenny nails with the heads and points cut off, and he buys used string tighteners from music stores. Saltzman has made 14 cigar box guitars this year and sells them at local ...

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 ... musical instrument was a one-string, stand-up base he made ...

IT’S CRAZY. FOR THE UNINITIATED, THE SOUND COMING FROM THIS CIGAR BOX IS MIND BLOWING. BUT FOR EDDIE NISHIOKA, IT’S ALL IN A DAY’S WORK. I MAKE GUITARS, THREE STRING GUITARS CALLED CIGAR BOX ...