Just like traditional guitars, cigar box guitars have a neck with fretboards. Small cabinet vents serve as sound holes. Nasiatka’s electric versions are outfitted with components for a smoking ...

He explained what he looks for he makes guitars. "You try and get ones that’s all wood. The sound is much better," he said. Just like traditional guitars, cigar box guitars have a neck with ...

Building cigar box guitars was not enough to quench his thirst for them, so he pried into their convoluted history. ... the fretboard radius on that one and the neck profile of another. ...

The cigar-box guitar is undergoing a renaissance. In Chicago its most passionate proponent may be art teacher Diane Sutliff. by Miles Raymer February 18, 2010 August 19, 2021 ...

Rather than use a cigar box, they employ more unusual found items as the resonator — an exit sign, a mailbox, boat oar, pipes, shovels. The list goes on. See some of Speal's videos down near the ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. A quarter-century ago, when cigar-box guitar enthusiast Pat ...

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 ...

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 ...

The art of making guitars from cigar boxes dates to the mid-1800s, but in recent years these junkyard instruments have been subject to a resurgence in DIY circles. To build our own cigar box guitar, ...

With headstocks and necks coming from an array of cherry woods, maple or oak, most cigar box guitars take between 10-20 hours to make, depending on the customizations.

Aurora resident Victor Martinez, 71, shows off one of his favorite cigar box guitars he has made over the past several years. He said he kept working on his craft and giving the guitars away ...