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 ...

Unsurprisingly, music lessons were a struggle but, when he was about 17, he saw a strange guitar hanging in a pawnshop window in Downtown Los Angeles. “I had never seen anything quite like it ...

However, Doktor said cigar box guitars existed long before major guitar manufacturers — even before rock ‘n’ roll itself. In fact, the cigar box guitar’s role in shaping early blues music ...