Finally the cigar box is glued shut then the guitar neck is centered and epoxied over the box to provide resonation. In the video John also add a piezo transducer to give the guitar an electronic ...

The sound is much better," he said. Just like traditional guitars, cigar box guitars have a neck with fretboards. Small cabinet vents serve as sound holes. Nasiatka’s electric versions are ...

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 ...

Gracing the cover was this uncomplicated, yet sophisticated, cigar box guitar. “The moment I saw that magazine cover,” Jehle said, “everything fell into place.” In the midst of striving to ...

Ever played a cigar box guitar ... However, the iron guitar was actually built by a pal. It was constructed with a "leftover scrap iron [and] a couple rebars for the neck," Speal explains.

At its most basic a cigar-box guitar is little more than a box with a neck attached—all you really need is scrap wood and a set of tuning machines. But this lack of complication has encouraged ...

“I did a little more digging and I found out about cigar box guitars you can make from one string, two string, three string or four and some people put a guitar neck on it,” he said.

The New Orleans Cigar Box Guitar Festival (NOCBGF), which launched ... you can use as a resonator), throw on a piece of wood for a neck, a pickup if you want to go electric, and a few strings ...

Dean Moller is a blues guitar player and cigar-box guitar maker ... A 10-degree angle to the neck that tapers and is curved in the back. His “Soul Cat” logo features his late cat Lionel ...

The sound is much better," he said. Just like traditional guitars, cigar box guitars have a neck with fretboards. Small cabinet vents serve as sound holes. Nasiatka’s electric versions are ...

The sound is much better," he said.Just like traditional guitars, cigar box guitars have a neck with fretboards. Small cabinet vents serve as sound holes. Nasiatka’s electric versions are ...

There are countless ways to make interesting sounds out of nearly anything if you’re willing to experiment a little bit — just ask anyone who has ever made a guitar out of a cigar box and a ...