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The kick-off for the 19th annual Cigar Box Festival is slated for Friday, June 2, at Salty Nut Brewery. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and anyone who plans to attend is encouraged to bring a chair.
MEMPHIS, TENN. -- — They’re built around wooden cigar boxes, just like untold thousands of homemade guitars patched together across America since the 1800s. But no minstrel-show performer or ...
This project marks the creator’s return to cigar box guitars, four years after their first video. This time, the goal was to build a fretted version from scratch using only materials and tools ...
In the central Massachusetts town of Westminster, a local guitar player is strumming up quite the business with Dream Catcher Cigar Box Guitars. For 60 years, Eddie Nasiatka played guitar in rock ...
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… ...
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.
Cigar-box luthiers don’t frown on lifting ideas, an attitude that reflects both the instrument’s folksy roots—people who build their own instruments usually learned how from somebody—and ...