A quarter-century ago, when cigar-box guitar enthusiast Pat MacDonald was half of the Austin, Texas, alternative pop-rock duo Timbuk3, the singer, songwriter and instrumentalist’s moment in the ...

In the past decade, he has created dozens of cigar box guitars, most of them 3-string, acoustic and electric, though the latter takes more time, he says.

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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 ...

Next month, Samantha Fish and the New Orleans Cigar Box Guitar Festival present four days of music at two Crescent City Clubs (the fest runs Jan. 15 -18 at The Howlin’ Wolf and Chickie Wah Wah ...

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 ...

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The cigar boxes form plain rectangular bodies for most Lowebows. On the fancier ones, the boxes are surrounded by triangular frames or hand-carved wood in shapes like a standard guitar.

Building cigar box guitars wasn’t enough to quench his thirst for them, so he pried into their convoluted history. “I kept trying to find where these things came from,” he said.

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.