Cigar box, at least 6-in. x 6 in. x 3 in. Plexiglass or acrylic, about the size of the top of your cigar box Flat black spray paint 20-gauge wire Glue: silicone, epoxy, or hot glue Solder Velcro ...

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 ...

Some cigar box instruments, like Lowe’s, remain consciously low-tech, using just one, two or three strings; others, often employing four or sometimes even eight strings, apply sophisticated ...

The cigar-box guitar community keeps growing as musicians like Hymn for Her and ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons get drawn into the lure of an old-style sound.

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 ...

The cigar box guitars made by Gipson Shoemaker III are similar to homemade instruments that date back to the 19th century, made by musicians who couldn’t afford a real guitar.

Cigar box guitars can, in the right hands, make sophisticated music. Players ranging from Bo Diddley and Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top to Joe Bonamassa and Paul McCartney have performed onstage with them.

Stacks of cigar boxes sit on a shelf inside Anthony Walker’s garage Monday Feb. 14, 2022, in Columbia. Walker will find boxes from a variety of sources across the South. Gavin McIntyre/Staff ...

KITCHENER — Ed Kliewer was shopping for some high quality tools — he’s a woodworker by trade and hobby — when he saw a book about making cigar box guitars. “I thought that would be kind ...