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 guitars have been a growing trend in maker ...

but there is also a single-string instrument, known as a diddley bow. With cigar box guitars having fewer strings luthiers often struggle to find pickups, the transducers on electric guitars.

He makes frets from sixpenny nails with the heads and points cut off, and he buys used string tighteners from music stores. Saltzman has made 14 cigar box guitars this year and sells them at local ...

It consists of a broomstick handle melded to a bona fide cigar box across which run three strings: one bass string for the low-end notes, and two guitar strings for rhythm accompaniment and soloing.

It consists of a broomstick handle melded to a bona fide cigar box across which run three strings: one bass string for the low-end notes, and two guitar strings for rhythm accompaniment and soloing.

“I did a little more digging and I found out about cigar box guitars you can make from one string, two string, three string or four and some people put a guitar neck on it,” he said.

IT’S CRAZY. FOR THE UNINITIATED, THE SOUND COMING FROM THIS CIGAR BOX IS MIND BLOWING. BUT FOR EDDIE NISHIOKA, IT’S ALL IN A DAY’S WORK. I MAKE GUITARS, THREE STRING GUITARS CALLED CIGAR BOX ...

but this CBG (that's Cigar Box Guitar) takes the cigar. Its roots date back to the late 1800s, and kindred instruments have been played recently by the likes of Seasick Steve. "Nineboys has already ...

Despite having never heard of cigar box guitars, the two quickly bonded over their shared love of music. After his recovery, the patient gifted Withrow his favorite creation—a beautiful 3-string ...

Perhaps the most famous was Gospel legend Blind Willie Johnson, who is reported to have learned how to play on a one-string cigar box guitar built by his father. Then in the early 2000s there was ...