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.

But Speal's guitars take the idea one step further. Rather than use a cigar box, they employ more unusual found items as the resonator — an exit sign, a mailbox, boat oar, pipes, shovels.

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 ...

Instead of a cigar box though, they’ve substituted a 1920’s tin cigarette box. The Omar Cigarette company gave “Project Omar” it’s name.

He makes cigar box guitars and she plays them. At 2024 May Fair on Campus Corner the couple had a tent set up alongside other vendors displaying a variety of cigar box guitars, diddley bows ...

Since cigar box guitars are smaller in size, he is able to strum the instrument with ease. "Smaller body guitars are just easier to play which is why a lot of people start of with them," said Zwetsch.

* Gary Reichel’s Cigar Box Guitars are available online only. They range in price from $200-$250, depending on the cost of materials, and more for specialized custom work.

Free's guitars differ in that the sound chamber is usually a vintage biscuit or lolly tin. "The idea was to find a cigar box but I couldn't find any," he says.

But the guitar generated more interest than he'd anticipated and led him to begin a business, Barnyard Custom Cigar Box Guitars, in 2010. Also in 2010, Steve Talley of Platte City, Mo., began ...

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 gu ...

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.