If you’d like to see the guitars for yourself, check out the Sterling Street Market in Sterling, Massachusetts. It’s held every Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the Sterling Town Common.

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.

The cigar-box guitar dates at least to the Civil War; an etching of two soldiers shows one being played at a campfire. Moller once spent $50 to get a box that was piano-shaped.

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 ...

Kidsday ReporterJuly 19, 2012 I have been building cigar box guitars with my father, Andrew, for about two years. When I was in fourth grade, I watched a tutorial on how to build a cigar box guitar.

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 ...

Tonight, Ben Gitty Baker runs a thriving business in Rochester building cigar box guitars and kits. He shows Karen Meyers how it all works. Plus, it started with his grandmother's recipes for jams ...

Come on out and enjoy the 12th Annual Cigar Box Guitar Festival held at Lowe Mill Arts & Entertainment in Huntsville, Al June 3-4, 2016. (Bob Gathany/[email protected]) ...

Cigar box guitar — a four-stringed instrument fashioned from an old cigar box or similar item that is often played with a slide — has a raw, aggressive sound. Fish, who grew up in Kansas City ...