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How to Make Screened F-Holes in Cigar Box Guitars

Give your cigar box guitars a clean look with simple wire mesh screens used for windows. Tools needed: Scroll Saw or coping saw Hot glue…

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0 Mar 30, 2016

TAB LESSON: How to Play Grateful Dead's "Friend of the Devil" on 3-String Cigar Box Guitar

Glenn Watt has taken the classic Grateful Dead song, "Friend of the Devil" and transcribed it into three-string TAB format.  He has put t…

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4 Mar 27, 2016
Reply by Silent Jim

Gospel Rock Legend, Glenn Kaiser and His Cigar Box Guitar

Glenn Kaiser was one of the first musicians to meld hard rock with Christian theology in the 1970s, fronting the Chicago based Resurrection…

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9 Mar 27, 2016
Reply by Silent Jim

Captain Nemoff Releases Classical Cigar Box Guitar Album

A review by Shane Speal Cigar Box Guitar and classical music meet again after 150 years!  Legend has it, in the middle of 19th century, t…

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13 Mar 19, 2016
Reply by john ludiker

Samantha Fish Melts Faces with 4 Strings and a Cigar Box!

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7 Mar 17, 2016
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VIDEO: Mind-Bending Musical Instrument Uses 2000 Marbles

Swedish inventor and musician, Martin Molin has created the mind-bending Wintergatan Marble Machine, a complex Rube Goldberg machine that…

Started by Cigar Box Nation

4 Mar 15, 2016
Reply by John Stetson

The AmpHanger: Build this DIY microphone stand for your amp... in seconds!

Ever show up to a gig and realize you don't have enough mic stands between the band and the sound guy?  Here's a sturdy...and simple way to…

Started by Cigar Box Nation

1 Mar 15, 2016
Reply by Jim Morris

1963 Hawaiian Lap Steel Guitar Plans (incl. full schematics)

Historic Instrument Plans:  originally published in Practical Wireless Magazine, June 1965. A special thanks to Hubcap John for scanning t…

Started by Cigar Box Nation

0 Mar 7, 2016

ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons Plays Cigar Box Guitar (Audio + Pics)

A photo of Billy Gibbons playing cigar box guitar has been traveling around the interwebs for years.  However, have you ever heard the musi…

Started by Cigar Box Nation

0 Mar 7, 2016

VIDEO - The Mourning Glories "Jailhouse Blues"

You probably have seen Shelley Rickey's cigar box uke video before.  Now she's back with a plastic bucket washtub bass in the band, The…

Started by Cigar Box Nation

38 Mar 4, 2016
Reply by Ron Ruhs

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